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		<title>New Article: Merchant Accounts 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new article has been published today that we are very excited about. Merchant Accounts 101 covers the ins and outs of merchant accounts. Covered in this article are: The Players Find out who&#8217;s who in the merchant account business. We start at the top with the big card associations and work our way down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Launches Payment System &#8211; Amazon Flexible Payments Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com recently announced that they are entering the merchant services arena by offering their own in house payment system. Called Amazon Flexible Payments Service, or Amazon FPS for short, it is designed to be a direct competitor of Paypal and Google Checkout. An advantage it potentially offers over Google Checkout is through Amazon.com&#8217;s huge database [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing or adding products after establishing a merchant account</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When establishing your merchant account the acquiring bank that is reviewing your application is assessing the risk associated with establishing your account. They factor in many variables including ones associated with the product(s) you are selling. Different products have different risks associated with them. Let&#8217;s compare two products: Pencils Selling pencils is a low risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What exactly is a Third Party Processor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common question we see asked online is, &#8220;What exactly is a Third Party Processor&#8221;? Well, a third party processor allows other businesses to share their merchant account. This means the merchants who shares their account doesn&#8217;t have to apply with a merchant account provider. They apply directly with the third party processor. The ramification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Party Processor Indicted for Money Laundering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Digital Currency Business E-Gold Indicted for Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has indicted two companies operating a digital currency business and their owners on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo and Paypal Take on Google Checkout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Third Party Processors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo and Paypal have announced that merchants that accept Paypal as a form of payment will have a special shopping cart icon displayed with their listing in Yahoo Sponsored Search results. It will look like this: This is similar in concept to Google&#8217;s display of a special icon in the Adwords listing of merchants who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Exactly is Adult Content?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merchant Accounts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has attempted to open a traditional merchant account from the same provider as their retail store while offering &#8220;adult content&#8221; on their website can tell you how quickly they are told &#8220;sorry, but we cannot establish an account for adult content&#8221;. But what is &#8220;adult content&#8221; and why can&#8217;t you get a typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening a Merchant Account Without a Personal Guarantor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merchant Accounts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When applying for a merchant account most small and medium-sized merchants will notice that a personal guarantee is required to establish the merchant account. A personal guarantee basically says that if the business cannot fulfill its obligations to the processing bank then the processing bank can legally pursue the guarantor to fulfill those obligations. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authorize.Net is NOT a Payment Processor</title>
		<link>http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/authorizenet-is-not-a-payment-processor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merchant Accounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payment Gateways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest misconceptions out there right now is that Authorize.Net is a payment processor. Often times I will hear or read about someone who is looking for a new payment processor and a common answer is, &#8220;try Paypal or Authorize.Net&#8221;. While I am sure Authorize.Net is thrilled that they are so commonly considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Example Of Why Merchants Find It Hard To Get Good Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merchant Accounts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While aimless wandering the Internet I stumbled upon a brief article that titled, &#8220;Shopping for a Payment Gateway and Merchant Account&#8220;. Seemed like another harmless attempt to explain the basics of accepting credit cards over the Internet that reiterated the basics that are pretty available from any website related to the topic. It started off [...]]]></description>
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