Industry leader in risk prevention and management firm, Verifi, has been chosen to stand next to 14 others of the largest payment processors and service providers in the industry by joining the Direct Response Forum (DRF).

The DRF was founded in 1989, and is comprised of industry professionals from various entities dedicated to educate others like themselves about the payment card industry, most notably for card-not-present merchants. Today they announced that Verifi will join their advisory board and will contribute their knowledge to the understanding of risk and fraud issues within card-absent environments.

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“The addition of Verifi to advisory board strengthens our ability to be on the forefront of global CNP innovations. Their award winning solutions help their clients process more than $10 billion a year in transactions and is highly regarded in the industry,” Steve Wyatt, Executive Chair added on the new addition to the board.

Verifi joins the ranks of Digital River World Payments, Discover Network, First Data, Global Collect, JCB International Credit Card Co. Ltd, Litle & Co., MasterCard Worldwide, Retail Decisions Inc., TSYS Merchant Solutions, Vantiv, Visa, and WorldPay, all currently contributing to the board.

Security companies that are added to these kinds of boards and councils show the importance security and risk assessment management is to the payment card industry, especially for card-not-present environments.

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