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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

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In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac). Launderers usually funnel illicit money using an associate’s cash-generating business or inflating their invoices. To that end, PayFacs must detect, manage, and categorize risky accounts.

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How to Streamline Your SaaS Clients’ Merchant Underwriting Process—and Improve Adoption Rates

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SaaS companies can avoid having to integrate their software with that of gateways and banks, undergo thorough merchant underwriting, and submit mountains of documents by working with a trusted PayFac like Stax to make their software more comprehensive for their clients. Working with a payment facilitator can be the answer here.

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Payment Facilitator vs Payment Gateway: Key Differences and Similarities

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In this article, we’ll dive into the intricacies of two types of players in the eCommerce ecosystem: payment gateways and payment facilitators. The high-level difference is when and how to deploy them as part of the payment process. A PayFac, by contrast, handles the bank’s interaction with a number of merchants.

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What Is an ACH Payment Facilitator?

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In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about the ACH payment facilitator model and how SaaS companies can go about facilitating ACH payments easily. An ACH payment facilitator, therefore, is simply a PayFac that allows users to accept payments through an electronic bank-to-bank network.

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

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The writing on the wall is clear—businesses need to start accepting digital payments and software providers need to start offering payment services one way or another. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.