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Visa Shares Innovative Security Technologies at National Fraud Forum
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CAIRO, 20 November 2008--The National Fraud Forum of Egypt met recently to forward proactive measures to keep Egypt a low-risk market for payment card transactions. More than 80 bank executives and law enforcement personnel attended the Forum at the National Bank of Egypt Club. Key Visa security and fraud managers presented world-leading technologies and initiatives to continue protecting payment card users.
"Egypt is leading regional efforts to advance payment card security," said Tarek Elhousseiny, VisaVisa
's General Manager for North and West Africa. "The fraud rate for payment cards issued in Egypt remains lower than both the global and regional average. The Forum is leading a united effort to maintain Egypt's low fraud rate and VisaVisa is proud to support these local initiatives promoting safe payments."
VisaVisa has worked closely with banks and merchants to develop and implement technology enabled services that validate payment cards online and authenticate the cardholder including Verified by VisaVisa (VbV) and Card Verification Value 2 (CVV2).
"Fraud has changed from an individual crime of opportunity to an organised crime of process," said Valery Assaf, VisaVisa's Regional Fraud Control Manager. "Electronic payments are considerably less prone to counterfeit than cash payments, but they require a new kind of collaborative effort to prevent fraud. VisaVisa offers a number of tools to provide real-time authentication of a website visitor's identity and is developing these measures to ensure that its cardholders shopping online are more protected than ever before."
"E-commerce is an increasingly important element of the global economy. According to the Nielson report on online shopping trends, more than 60% of online consumers worldwide use payment cards," said Tarek Elhousseiny. "In this environment it is critically important that online purchases are secure. VisaVisa
is dedicated to accomplishing this goal by working with customers, banks and merchants to institute common, secure authentication protocols that allow consumers to shop the global marketplace with ease of mind." The National Fraud Forum of Egypt provides a platform for industry experts to exchange the latest knowledge and information regarding payment card security and coordinate unified efforts to continue protecting Egypt's consumers. In January 2007, the Forum and its member institutions became the first in Africa to coordinate a nationwide payment card security organisation when it signed a Constitution empowering representatives to share fraud-related information openly.
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