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Payment processor

A payment processor is a data and communications center ("switch") that moves payment transactional data and messaging between a card issuing bank, a merchant, and a card acquiring bank (USA model) to enable financial transactions between purchasers and sellers. It processes payment information for various channels such as credit cards and debit cards or…

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Evolution of payment technology

Modern implementations

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Payment processor

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples22
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
Components1

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Payment processor

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related to Transaction processing quality · 12
Payment processor → Another, Electronic, Liability, Many, One, PCI-compliant, Point, Point Encryption, SaaS, Some, Through Tokenization, Tokenization
related to Modern implementations · 7
Payment processor → ACH, Due, RDC, SaaS, These, This, Web
is a · 1
Payment processor → data and communications center

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payment card merchant transaction bank credit processor first data processors information also processing saas online merchants usually issuing front-end transactions

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Payment processoris adata and communications center0.90text
credit cardsinstance ofIt processes payment information for various channels0.80text
debit cards or bank accountsinstance ofIt processes payment information for various channels0.80text
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsDue0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsSaaS0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsRDC0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsACH0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsWeb0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsThese0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Modern implementationsThis0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Transaction processing qualityElectronic0.60section
Payment processorrelated to Transaction processing qualityLiability0.60section

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