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Case Study
Cartpanda needed a solution to quickly migrate cards on file from an existing vault while keeping cards tokenized and secured, as well as updated with the most current information using network tokens. VGS offered an expedited implementation timeline, dedicated support, and the ability to quickly accept migrated cards on file via API from the previous vault provider into the VGS Vault.
Podcast
In this week’s Finovate Podcast, VGS Head of Partnerships Howard Xiao discusses how VGS is changing the way fintechs approach payments data. He touches on the importance of payment tokenization in security and compliance strategies, but also its utilitarian value for product development and innovation.
Webinar
Listen to VGS's VP of Product & Sr. Director of Product Marketing, as they walk you through VGS Network Tokens - our cost-effective solution for multi-processor, secure payment processing. If you want to increase authorization rates, lower processing fees, reduce fraud, or all of the above, this is a discussion you won’t want to miss.
Case Study
RoadSync faced a potential crisis when its payment processing capabilities were endangered by SVB's sudden collapse. RoadSync utilized VGS to swiftly switch to a new processor (PSP) and ensured their secure payment processing continued seamlessly.
Case Study
RallyPay’s one-click checkout experience required a secure method to handle customer data and support merchant integrations. Rally opted to use VGS to collect and secure sensitive payment data. This allowed them to stay compliant while speeding up development and reducing costs over in-house solutions
Podcast
The world is quickly changing. So should the way we interact with it. That’s one of the main takeaways from this conversation with Chuck Yu, Chief Executive Officer at VGS. Here you’ll hear Chuck’s thoughts on how the ecosystem has experienced consolidation, and his predictions of how the future of partnerships in payments will involve companies mastering certain areas of the ecosystem, rather than trying to be a one-stop-shop for everything.
Podcast
On this episode of Descoped, we explore the emerging "Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)" space. Our guest and co-host on this show together explore how BNPL has changed how consumers purchase products. With transparency in fees, people can complete online purchases with a clear understanding of exactly how much they will pay over a set amount of payments.
Podcast
Cristina Ciaravalli, Head of Community at This Week in Fintech and New Business & Partnerships at Unit, and Saira Rahman, VP of New Investor Initiatives at Fundrise, discuss the power of partnerships and community in driving innovation and growth in fintech. We talk about how collaborations between companies can help address challenges and meet evolving customer needs, building trust and fostering strong relationships between partners, and enabling financial inclusion and creating positive social impact.
Podcast
Dr. Kenneth Geers, Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative and a cybersecurity expert at VGS, discusses emerging trends in data security, payments, and fintech space. In this episode, we talk about the importance of investing in security, privacy, and trust for fintech companies, open banking, CFPB & FedNow, Robots, financial wellness, and more.
Podcast
Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled, shares his journey in the payments ecosystem and launching Tilled, a PayFac-as-a-Service company. In this episode, we discuss when businesses should monetize their payments, changes in the payments ecosystem, and best practices when selling a nuanced payments solution.
Podcast
Brandon Hoffman, Managing Partner of Sunset Ventures, shares his investor journey, founding Sunset Ventures, and the surprises that come with starting a venture fund. In this episode, we discuss the value that can come from corporate venture, Brandon's investor journey into blockchain & web3 technologies, and investing in the new frontier of fintech & commerce.
Podcast
Rory O'Reilly, a serial entrepreneur, shares his entrepreneurial journey, the vision for Knot API, and the lessons he learned along the way. In this episode, we discuss growing a fintech social media following, building "account plumbing" for merchants, and Rory's founder journey.
Podcast
Arjun Thyagarajan, Co-Founder and CEO of Solid, discusses how he created a developer-friendly fintech infrastructure by leveraging his passion for fintech. In this episode, we talk about fintech infrastructure, embedded finance, and market trends within the fintech ecosystem.
Podcast
Bill Fox, Chief Commercial Officer at Finexio, shares insights on financial fraud and simple steps businesses can take to keep their B2B payments secure. In this episode, we discuss common types of fraud in B2B payments, Covid-19's impact on B2B payments, and digitization of AP payments.
Podcast
Taher Elgamal, CTO for Security at Salesforce and the "Father of SSL," shares his decades of experience and recommendations for keeping personal and company data safe. In this episode, we discuss the origins of SSL, building sustainable security programs, and healthy habits for data protection.
Podcast
In this episode, industry innovators discuss the future of payments and data security. Matt D'Anjou, Sr. Director of Global Payments at Compusoft Group and Principal Owner of GranitePay, shares his insights on market trends and creating consistent revenue streams for businesses by adding payments in a fast-changing environment.
Podcast
Samantha Ettus, Founder and CEO of Park Place Payments, talks about how the payments salesforce has remained stagnant while payments software and hardware have advanced. She discusses how her company is changing payment processing for small businesses and shares her journey and lessons learned.
Webinar
For 11 years, AWS has been named the leader in Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services — So it's no surprise you'd opt to build your fintech upon its cloud infrastructure. While AWS provides critical and trusted infrastructure, the second key piece of building and scaling trusted fintech is data security.
Guide
Get an in-depth look into how companies can develop and deploy a robust payment strategy with Payments Orchestration, allowing them to determine where, when, and how they route payment requests. This strategy minimizes false declines by intelligently sending transactions to where they’ll be approved, which directly impacts revenue, cuts costs, reduces business dependencies, and enables organizations to achieve a range of business objectives.
Webinar
Join this panel discussion to learn how smaller, niche-oriented fintechs are partnering with banks to deliver a better customer experience, as well as why the line between competitor and collaborator may not exist anymore – featuring four payments and banking industry leaders.
Webinar
Recent studies indicate the card industry is bracing for more than $400 billion in lost business over the next decade, in an effort to mitigate fraud; with 65% stemming from card issuers. Incidentally, that declined business is protecting against approximately $160 billion in fraudulent transactions over the same time period. Join VGS and Neuro-ID to gain insights on how you can confidently issue cards to true customers in 50% less time.
Webinar
In this fireside chat, VGS Head of Payments Products & Solutions Hoang Leung and VGS Senior Product Marketing for VGS Payment Optimization Andrew Sjogren sit down to discuss what the launch of VISA and Mastercard network tokens means for your business.
Case Study
Find out how this home goods e-commerce giant used VGS to break its single-PSP lock-in by implementing payment optimization – and started using PAN data to create a unified customer view for its loyalty program.
Case Study
After switching their online transactions to a new PSP, this global fast food chain’s marketing and loyalty programs became fractured. With VGS, they were able to unify customers no matter which PSP was used.
Guide
Get a detailed overview of all the necessary steps that companies must take when adopting an in-house approach to PCI compliance and how PCI-as-a-Service solves these challenges –enabling a fast, simple, and cost-effective path to PCI certification.
Guide
PCI compliance is not simply a cost of doing business – it’s a valuable certification that comes with several advantages. In this infographic, you’ll learn the benefits of establishing PCI compliance as well as the many risks that companies take when they don’t adhere to PCI requirements.
Data Sheet
Discover the benefits of instantly issuing virtual payment cards with VGS, which enables businesses to immediately activate cardholders upon onboarding and provide a seamless experience in the event of a lost or stolen card – all while reducing issuing costs.
Data Sheet
Build a customized payments experience to increase acceptance, maximize approvals, and reduce costs. Payment Optimization is a suite of products designed to tailor and supercharge your payments ecosystem, whether you are working with a single payments provider or many.
Data Sheet
Enables clients to strategically route their payment transactions to any endpoint for payment processing. This enables businesses to develop and deploy a robust payment strategy that leverages multiple payment service providers or gateways simultaneously to achieve a range of business objectives.
Data Sheet
Provides a complete card account updating service for your card-on-file data ecosystem. CALM maximizes the coverage and capabilities of any card-on-file environment with direct-to-network features that reduce costs while increasing transaction throughput.
Webinar
Join Nithin Bose, VGS VP Customer Success, and Hoang Leung , VGS Head of Payments Products & Solutions, for this webinar to see how Payment Optimization suite increases accepted payment methods across 120+ providers, minimizes data security risk, and reduces payment processing costs.
Webinar
Join Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy, and Tucker Haas, Quo Finance CEO & Co-Founder, for this FinTech Magazine-hosted webinar on fast-tracking compliance and accelerating business growth through data security outsourcing.
Webinar
Join VGS VP of Strategy & Biz Dev Peter Berg alongside Marina Nelson, Treasury Prime Product Manager – Card, and Mark Vermeersch, Treasury Prime VP of Strategy & Biz Dev, as they discuss the basics of payment card issuing and how to handle the biggest challenges involved
Webinar
The business value of payments is rapidly increasing, and it’s a lever enterprises can use to drive growth, elevate the customer experience, and optimize costs. Join Jordan McKee, Principal Analyst of Digital Payments at 451 Research, and Peter Berg from VGS as they discuss the business outcomes that can be achieved with a modernized payments strategy – and how enterprises can achieve the ‘payments trifecta.’
Webinar
FiveStars credits its partnership with VGS for creating a leading-edge customer experience that empowers local businesses to compete against major franchises. This discussion explores the role PCI and payments optimization play and how you can grow your business faster and minimize costs for security and compliance.
Data Sheet
Loyalty programs build customer relationships and lead to more business, but traditional approaches are far from frictionless. Read this to find out how to securely connect customer identities with payment cards, enabling a seamless experience while protecting consumers’ data privacy.
Podcast
Understand how VGS provides “data teleportation” via data aliasing, which is safer than encryption and more flexible than tokenization – allowing data to be transferred between endpoints without actually moving it or storing it.
Report
In collaboration with PYMNTS, this report offers valuable insights into how companies can manage growing consumer concern about data privacy protections and what steps they can take to boost customer engagement in this new security-driven online retail environment.
Guide
Learn why many companies’ current strategies for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) are failing, and how forward-thinking organizations are using the Zero Data approach to stay ahead of the game. Plus, read an included case study of cryptocurrency startup Gem, which leveraged the Zero Data method to add a proxy layer of security on top of their in-house infrastructure.
Case Study
“With VGS, we had our infrastructure in place and were PCI compliant in under 2 months. Within 4 months, we were Visa DPS certified. [Visa was] pretty skeptical we could finish that quickly. But with VGS’ help, we did it,” Doron Somech, CTO, Unit Finance
Guide
Learn how VGS Alias protects sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, including how data aliases are created and transmitted, as well as how VGS Alias secures the various types of data formats while keeping the original sensitive data out of an organization's own environment.
Guide
Data is a double-edged sword. Harnessed and used correctly, it can spark innovation, drive growth, lead to higher customer retention, and more. But storing PII data puts you at risk for breaches, which can damage reputation and lead to fines. Learn how you can offload your risk while maintaining full analytics utility.
Guide
Learn what types of data is considered personally identifiable information (PII), what challenges companies face when protecting their users’ PII, and how companies are offloading their PII protection and compliance to Very Good Security so that they can reduce compliance complexity, get to market faster, and minimize the risk of a data leak.
Case Study
With VGS, TransferGo secured PCI DSS Level 1 compliance with 10x less manpower – just 35 days vs. 350 days – than it would have taken them to do it in-house, and are projecting a savings of 90% of the manpower it would take annually for on-going PCI maintenance. They also secured the ability to work directly with card data, without storing it in-house, and optimized payments by breaking lock-in to one PSP.
Case Study
"VGS takes the really scary, sensitive, tricky compliance and security stuff and does it for us. They get it right. And then we get the benefit. Our sensitive data is secure and we’re PCI compliant with 10x less people and 5x more quickly than if we’d built our own solution.” Will Maier, CISO, Even
Webinar
Join Rahul Verma, VGS Solutions Architect, as he walks you through the VGS data security platform and how it intercepts, redacts, and replaces sensitive data with secure data aliases to ensure cardholder data remains protected.
Webinar
Join Very Good Security’s in-house Payments Leader, Hoang Leung, as he explains the current payment transformation landscape as well as overcoming roadblocks related to payments transformation, like high costs, vendor lock-in, and more.
Case Study
“I no longer dread February and March. Returning several months of development time accelerates the big picture and our strategic growth. We can focus on the business logic, not the compliance issues.” - Tony La, CTO, Honk
Case Study
“Our rule was to attempt to limit and in some cases avoid data at all costs, to stop it from the beginning and not house any of the data, we eliminated the compliance risk... Once VGS started talking about their solution, it was like they had our checklist. It was just seamless. We were blown away…VGS wasn’t just the best solution; they clearly demonstrated how they would help us grow our business and top-line revenue.” - Ramona Hall, SVP of Commercial Cards, TCB
Compliance
PCI Compliance is a costly endeavor for most organizations tying up not only resources, but an extensive amount of budget as well. Download the Top 10 Reasons for PCI as a Service to learn more about how to outsource your PCI Compliance efforts helping to save time and money giving you the freedom to focus on business priorities.
Case Study
“Not even Starbucks can offer such a seamless check-in experience. You have to open their app, pull up a QR code, and scan it in order to earn your points. Because of our partnership with VGS, we are at the leading edge of brick-and-mortar customer experience, and we empower local businesses to gain an edge and compete against major franchises.” - Matt Doka, Co-founder and CTO, Fivestars
Webinar
Join this exclusive webinar led by the Co-Founder of Fivestars, Matt Doka, and VGS’ VP of Business Development, Peter Berg, as they discuss how Fivestars successfully built the future of local business loyalty, helping SMBs seamlessly compete with popular customer loyalty platforms offered by large enterprise organizations.
Case Study
No one starts a business to get audited, but today, any company that comes in contact with sensitive data (like payment cards, health information, or personally identifiable info), is forced to do expensive, time-consuming work that is not core to their business so that they can achieve certifications like PCI, SOC2 and more, just to stay in business.
Case Study
Our Zero Data Hero Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our Zero Data mission to protect the world’s information. Today’s Zero Data Hero is Nathan Seither, VP of Engineering at CoverHound and CyberPolicy