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Protx Partners with Trustwave to Provide PCI DSS Compliance Validation to Merchants
CHICAGO AND LONDON (August 6, 2008) – Protx, a provider of secure online credit and debit card payment solutions for thousands of online and mail order businesses across the UK, has partnered with Trustwave to provide merchants in the United Kingdom with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance validation solutions. Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand data security and PCI DSS compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world.
PCI DSS is the payment card industry security requirement for entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data, and has been endorsed by all the major card brands – Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Network, American Express and JCB.
Categorized as a Level 1 Payment Service Provider by Visa, e-commerce, mail order and telephone order merchants use Protx to process credit and debit card transactions. Validated PCI DSS compliant by Trustwave, Protx securely handles card data once it reaches its processing system. However, merchants that collect credit card details on their Web site or payment terminal are responsible for PCI DSS compliance when initiating the transaction and securing the payment process until payment arrives at Protx.
Trustwave’s compliance validation program will provide PCI DSS services and solutions to Protx’s entire merchant population. E-commerce, mail order and telephone order merchants will use Trustwave’s TrustKeeper® on-demand compliance management program, which provides access to tools necessary to validate PCI DSS compliance. Additionally, Protx will offer its merchant population access to Trustwave technology and services for those merchants needing additional support to become PCI DSS compliant.
Simon Black, Managing Director of Protx comments:
“PCI DSS compliance ensures that online traders are using best practice security measures to keep payment card data secure. We wanted to find a way to make it easier for our customers to become PCI DSS compliant.
Trustwave has a range of services to suit all our merchant’s requirements and we are excited about our new partnership.”
Robert J. McCullen, chairman and CEO of Trustwave comments:
“Validating PCI DSS compliance across a merchant portfolio requires the flexibility to serve multiple business types, such as dial-up enabled merchants to e-commerce merchants.
With our full-suite of comprehensive technology solutions, we’re able to leverage our expertise in securing critical data and validate PCI DSS compliance.”
Andrew Henwood, Director of EMEA Operations for Trustwave comments:
“Protx has a variety of UK businesses, ranging from small SME’s to large enterprises, that process a variety of card payments.
With Trustwave, they found a partner that could work with all different types of business and help them achieve compliance.”
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About Protx
Protx provides secure online credit and debit card payment solutions for thousands of online and mail order businesses across the UK. We have become one of the largest independent Payment Service Providers in the UK because our solutions offer our customers exceptional value for money without compromising on the level of security and functionality that we provide. Protx is a division of Sage (UK) Limited.
About Trustwave
Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and government entities throughout the world. For organizations faced with today’s challenging data security and compliance environment, Trustwave provides a unique approach with comprehensive solutions that include its flagship TrustKeeper® compliance management software and other proprietary security solutions. Trustwave has helped more than 30,000 organizations—ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers—manage compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and critical information assets. Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, China and Australia.
PayPal Partners With Protx to Enable Safe and Secure Transactions Online
17,000 online merchants to benefit from additional payment solution
Protx, the secure online payment service for credit card processing and PayPal, the world’s leading online payment system, today announced a partnership which means Protx customers can now offer PayPal as an additional payment method.
The deal means that Protx’s 17,000 online merchants will benefit from integrating PayPal Express Checkout onto their websites as an additional way for their customers to pay securely and efficiently. Furthermore, Protx - a division of Sage (UK) Limited - is providing merchants with the ability to drive incremental sales * and increase online conversions with PayPal **.
Simon Black, Managing Director of Protx comments:
“This partnership will benefit our merchants by making the managing and tracking of online-orders even more straightforward, as well as giving their customers more choice in how they want to purchase goods over the web. We have tested the service with both new and existing customers, who have found the service extremely easy to set-up, as no integration work is required. As a business we want to provide functionally rich payment solutions for our customers at highly competitive rates. This is why we are offering our merchants PayPal Express Checkout at no extra cost.”
Protx merchants will be able to simply switch this payment option on and off their payment pages whenever they want. When activated, PayPal transactions will appear along side other web-orders within the Protx reporting tool making tracking web-orders even more straightforward.
Claire Lettice, from Muddycook.co.uk says,
“Previously we had customers requesting us to accept PayPal so to have it as part of our Protx service was especially appealing. We have only offered it as a payment type for ten days and already our customers are making use of it. It is a great value for money proposition from Protx.”
Cameron McLean, General Manager Merchant Services at PayPal, comments:
“This partnership is an ideal match for PayPal. Protx provides secure online credit card and debit card payment solutions and with PayPal its customers can keep their financial details secure and choose whether to fund the transaction either directly from a bank account or from a credit card.
“Online consumers prefer to pay with PayPal ***, so by adding PayPal Express Checkout merchants should see a notable increase in their conversions.”
PayPal, with over 20 million UK accounts, allows consumers to keep their financial details safe. Thousands of UK merchants accept PayPal today from their websites, including leading e-commerce sites such as Boots, DHL, Harrods, Friends Reunited, New Look and eBay. PayPal also supports payments for Monarch Airways with a payment solution for flight bookings. With PayPal, merchants can sell their goods to the tens of millions of proven online shoppers that prefer PayPal***, often seeing a reduction in shopping cart abandonment and increased sales conversions.
To find out more about PayPal and set up an account please visit our PayPal section
* PayPal can increase sales by an average 14% by delivering greater shopping convenience. A 2006 PayPal survey of 200+ US sellers who were already accepting credit cards online, but added PayPal showed that PayPal generated an average incremental sales lift of 14%.
** PayPal Express Checkout has a 72% conversion rate, converting more browsers to buyers. Based on PayPal analysis conducted in Q2 2007 on Top 100 PayPal merchants in UK and US combined (in terms of volume), using the Express Checkout payment mark.
*** According to independent Forrester research, 23% of European online shoppers prefer paying with PayPal.