E-Wallet Merchant Account / IPSP Account
E-Wallet/IPSP accounts fall into the special category of merchant accounts for businesses which are processing sales for 3rd party merchants/businesses and offer online credit card payments to their clients. If you are running an IPSP or an e-wallet and looking for a new account with low rates, multi-currency processing and all major cards acceptance, look no further!
Or if you would like to start a new business to become an IPSP and have a solid business plan in place, then we can arrange an all-in-one solution with a payment gateway, a direct merchant account based on a EU acquiring bank, with dynamic billing descriptor, and rates as low as 2.20%.
Requirements for an eWallet/IPSP account:
- Description of the company’s target clients/sponsored merchants – merchant outlets
- Copy of their standard contract and due diligence procedure between their company and their sponsored merchant – merchant outlet
- Copy of their due diligence procedure
- Company’s customer’s procedures and capability regarding ongoing website content management/monitoring
- Who or what is the company using for risk management?
- What are the company policies regarding website content, we require a copy
- Number of people on the compliancy and risk department
- The company’s or related investor’s history and/or procedures regarding working with official authorities to actively fight against children or violent pornography or any other excessively vulgar and unacceptable material?
- Copy of a bank account statement of the account where the funds will be settled and where is their bank located (country)
- Frequency of settlements to the sponsored merchants
- Presentation which exactly explains the business model that the eWallet will be deploying, including background and overview of all the involved persons/companies and investors
- Copy of the level 1 PCI certificate of the company’s gateway, if applicable otherwise we need to receive their latest Self Scan Assessment Report?
- Example of the company’s check-out/payment page that they will be using
- Most recent financial statements
- Chart of all the companies involved, including the overlying company. (The Ultimate Beneficial Owner(s) needs to be identified)
- Country where the company is regulated together with a copy of the company’s license (eWallet requirement. Not applicable for IPSP application)
- Filled out spreadsheet “sponsored merchant overview”. For the application process, we just require the URL’s of the sponsored merchants.
Please note that all ISPS/MSP/e-Wallets should be aware about:
- Both Visa and MasterCard are assessing large fines for illegal content or copyright infringement
- Download sites - these sites must have legal licensing from the producers (i.e., music/movie downloads)