Glossary of Britiish Fraud Terms
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Application Programming Interface (API)
A format used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.
Hosted Payment Form
Allows merchants to accept and process credit cards online through a web form on a secure server.
Payment Acquirer/Processor
A company (often a third party) appointed by a merchant to handle credit card transactions for merchant acquiring banks.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
A standard of rules that companies who store or process cardholder information and credit card data must follow.
Payment Gateway
A service that authorises payments for e-businesses, online retailers and brick-and-mortar shops.
Shopping Cart
An internet or software company that provides e-commerce tools and payment form solutions for merchant websites.
Software Development Kit
A set of software development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package or operating system.
Tokenization
The replacement of cardholder data with an electronic file that corresponds with the original card data stored in a secure, third-party database away from the merchant’s environment.
Virtual terminal: (Card-Not-Present)
Keyed credit or debit transactions that are processed from e-mail, phone or internet sales.
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