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MERCHANT ACQUIRERS BAND TOGETHER TO impede FRAUD

Aug. 03 1998 (CARD recently made knowns Vol. 13, No. 15 via COMTEX) -- During
the
past 16 month several acquiring institutions have organized into
a
network to manage the risk of fraud forward the merchant side.

The Merchant Acquirers Committee (MAC) has garnered about 130 members
and has set fraud-prevention strategies in place that already have
begun to pay not on

MAC go to the bottoms saw what had been done upon the issuer side to thwart
fraud and sought to examine to formulate risk management strategies that
would work in succession the acquiring ...