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It turns out, card program management was unbundled only to be rebundled. VGS's universal vault supports this trend by being the central data location that enables fintechs to be their own program managers while staying PCI-compliant.

Adding Vault Redundancy in your Payments Stack Ensures Uninterrupted Business Operations and Data Protection. At VGS, we work across merchants, banks, financial institutions, and fintechs. Regardless of their type, size, or location, all VGS customers have three common priorities.

When we work with merchants at VGS, they may work with one, a few, or multiple PSPs. Or, they may be in transition and moving to add multiple PSPs. Although each merchant’s situation can be unique, here are a few guidelines.

Integrating 3DS while accepting payments can create user friction.  Click To Pay offers an alternative to needing a separate 3DS integration.

It’s really important to align closely with business priorities and have a point of view on what’s coming in the way of your team’s effectiveness. As an engineering manager, you might take each of these phases and use the framing to establish and document your ways of working.

What if you could get a complete dataset without taking on the compliance liability, facilitating the switch from 6- to 8+ digit BINs, or sifting through inaccurate information?

VGS is pleased to announce that we successfully completed the SOC 2 Type II assessment after undergoing a comprehensive annual review that confirmed our fulfillment of all system requirements based on the trust services criteria outlined by the AICPA.

What are these, and what does this mean for the payments ecosystem? Ever wondered how your Apple Pay transactions happen smoothly without your card number ever leaving your phone?

This post documents some of the challenges we’ve faced as we’ve tried to upgrade our applications to Java 17 and we hope some of the lessons we’ve learnt will be useful to other engineers.

The newest evolution of the PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is almost upon us. After PCI DSS v4.0 was announced in Q1 2022, companies had two more years left to use the old standard of PCI DSS v.3.2.1. Once it is officially retired on March 31, organizations have just one year to be compliant with PCI DSS v4.0.