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Guide
A Complete Guide to Unlocking Agentic Commerce and Payments for Merchants
Discover how merchants can enable agentic commerce and payments to maintain critical context, improve authorization rates, and preserve control over data.
Case Study
VGS is the Core Infrastructure Powering Agentic Commerce for Gondola
Gondola is building an AI platform for frequent travelers that helps them find and organize their loyalty points, redeem points at the highest possible value, and earn the most cash back possible on hotels. Using VGS and AI to connect the dots across unstructured travel data, Gondola finds travelers the best possible cash or points rate on hotels and then takes action to help users complete reservations seamlessly.
Podcast
VGS’s Arthur Bedel Featured on Payments Leaders' Summit Podcast
VGS Director of Revenue Arthur Bedel recently sat down with Laura Lewis in a Payments Leaders' Summit podcast episode to discuss interoperability in payments, not just in open banking but also in merchant payment ecosystems.
Case Study
Cartpanda Migrates to The VGS Vault and Adds VGS Network Tokens
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
The Importance of Flexible Partnerships for Fintech Innovation
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.
Podcast
How Payment Tokenization works and where it gets challenging
VGS's CEO Chuck Yu sat down with Vertex Ventures US to discuss the importance of tokenization for merchants in an ever-evolving payments ecosystem and how to avoid overcomplicating it.
Webinar
Boost Authorization Rates and Lower Costs with VGS Network Tokens
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
Processor Optionality from VGS Ensures Seamless Continuity in Secure Payment Processing Under Any Circumstances
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
Rally Protects Online Shoppers with a Secure Compliant Checkout Experience
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
Case Study
How Run Sign-up Goes Beyond PCI Compliance with Multi-layer Security
RunSignup fortified its security posture by adopting VGS's robust platform, safeguarding sensitive data, reducing risk and liability, and accelerating compliance with PCI-DSS, CCPA, and GDPR.
Podcast
Next-Gen Payment Platform: Insights from VGS’ Chuck Yu
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
Changing Landscape of Buy Now Pay Later with Kunal Shah
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
Building Fintech Community with Cristina Ciaravalli & Saira Rahman
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
2023 Data & Security Compliance Trends with Kenneth Geers, PhD
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
The Potential of Monetizing Payments with Caleb Avery
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
Investing in the Next Frontier of Fintech & Commerce with Brandon Hoffman
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
Building Fintech’s Next Account Plumbing with Rory O’Reilly
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
Solid Building Blocks of Fintech with Arjun Thyagarajan
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
Mitigating Fraud in B2B Payments with Bill Fox
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
Peeling Apart the Layers of Online Security with Taher Elgamal
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
Adding Payments for Revenue Growth with Matt D’Anjou
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
Finding Success Through Innovation with Samantha Ettus
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
How to Digitally Transform Your Payments Stack
Watch this webinar, led by VGS payments experts Amanda Carroccio and Andrew Sjogren, to find out how you can leverage the latest technologies to modernize your payments strategy and deliver a better payments experience to your customers.
Webinar
Your 'Yellow Brick Road' to Building a Trusted Fintech
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
Definitive Guide to Payments Orchestration
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.
Case Study
Zilch Goes Zero Data for 3x Faster PCI Level 1 Compliance
“VGS is a fantastic way of ensuring that card information not only arrives at the required destination but does so in a way that we are absolutely sure we cannot lose it.” - Sean Hederman, CIO
Webinar
Redefining the Payments Value Chain: How to Keep Innovating and Evolving
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
Grow Faster with Accelerated Card Issuance
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
Fine Tune Your Payments Stack with Network Tokens
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
Gig Economy Giant Increases Data Value with Multi-PSP Strategy
Learn why this global restaurant delivery platform opted to use VGS to adopt a multi-PSP payments strategy after first realizing the value of the platform when outsourcing their workers’ PII protection to VGS.
Case Study
Major Retailer Gains Pricing Leverage & Customer Loyalty with Multi-PSP Approach
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
Global Fast Food Chain Securely Supercharges their CRM with VGS Omni-Channel Aliases
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.
Infographic
Top 10 Ways to Reduce Payment Transaction Fees – and More
Find out how your current payments approach might be causing you to overspend on payments processing and how you can cut costs with ten simple strategies that shrink transaction fees and help boost ROI.
Checklist
Your PCI DSS Compliance Checklist
A comprehensive checklist to help you expedite PCI DSS.
Data Sheet
Add Virtual Card Services Quickly and Cost Effectively
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
VGS Payment Optimization
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
VGS Payment Orchestration
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
VGS Card Account Lifecycle Management (CALM)
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.
Guide
The Essential Guide to PCI DSS Compliance
A comprehensive ebook on everything organizations need to know about PCI DSS compliance, including a cost breakdown, a comparison of different implementation approaches, case studies, and a checklist for evaluating potential PCI compliance assessors.
Webinar
Turbo Charge Your Payments Strategy With VGS Payment Optimization
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
Grow Your Business by Offloading Security and Compliance
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
Everything Fintechs Need To Know About Card Issuance
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
Security & Compliance: A Competitive Differentiator for Fintechs
Join VGS Amanda Heinemann, Expensify's Anuradha Muralidharan, Andrew Veitch from EedenBull, and Fintech Finance host Douglas Mackenzie how fintechs can bypass these time-to-market slowdowns using a Zero Data approach.
Webinar
Startup Checklist: Achieve PCI Faster, Simpler, and with No Code Changes
Join VGS PCI Technical Lead, Adrian Dicker and VGS Payments Product Leader, Elan Mevasse to learn how to take advantage of this easy-to-implement PCI approach that costs less than in-house compliance.
Webinar
Taking the Pain out of PCI DSS: From Readiness to Compliance
Join PCI DSS Practice Lead, Dastin Rich from A-Lign, and VGS Head of Product, Jonathan Cordeau to learn how organizations can accelerate their assessment readiness, ways to minimize sensitive data risk.
Webinar
Converting payments into a competitive advantage
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
How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments
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.
Case Study
Unit Implements Visa DPS 50% Faster than Standard Deployments
“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
Very Good Security Alias Technology
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.
Case Study
TransferGo Gets PCI Compliant 10x More Easily than DIY
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
Even Secures PCI with “10x Less Staff and 5x More Quickly” than DIY
"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
Guide
VGS Vault Technical eGuide
VGS assumes the technical responsibility and legal liability of safeguarding your information, so that you can focus on growing your business. Learn about data types, connections, and security details.
Webinar
How to Use VGS to Issue a Credit Card without Ever Having to Handle Sensitive Data Yourselves
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
Zero Trust: Protecting Your Sensitive Data from Unauthorized Access
Join Kathy Wang, Very Good Security’s CISO, as she dives into what Zero Trust is – and isn’t – while exploring the main benefits of the approach as well as the biggest challenges that organizations face when adopting it.
Webinar
How to Accelerate Your Payments Transformation While Cutting Your Data Security Costs by 50%
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
Honk Takes Back Developer Time and Future-Proofs PCI Compliance by Moving Away from Homegrown PCI Solution
“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
Webinar
Exclusive Live Demo - Lunch and Learn with VGS
Join our Senior Account Executive Zal Akhtar and Solutions Architect Rahul Verma in this free, on-demand webinar on securing sensitive data for developers and IT professionals.
Webinar
Q&A with Veteran CISO Kathy Wang - Early Stage Company
Get an industry veteran’s perspective on data security trends and what near-term challenges the industry is facing, featuring Kathy Wang, CISO of VGS.
Webinar
Data Security: Build vs Buy
Watch this webinar to discover why Truebill decided to never touch their sensitive PII data and how it has streamlined their operations.
Guide
Make Payment Optimization a Part of Your Core Payment Strategy
Learn how to decrease payment processing fees and increase your sales throughput while being PCI compliant.
Case Study
TCB Launches a New Commercial Card 6+ Months Ahead of Schedule
“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
Guide
Why You Need To Own Your Data
Download this guide to learn how PCI and PII data protection can either be liabilities or growth accelerators.
Case Study
Fivestars Accelerates PCI and Offers Seamless Multi-PSP Loyalty Experience with VGS
“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
PCI Compliance in Under 7 Days
Learn how to accelerate your path to PCI DSS Compliance, shortening your journey from 9-12 months to as a few as 7 days.
Webinar
AWS + VGS: Shared Responsibility Model and PCI Compliance
During this webinar, experts Lee Fox (AWS) and David Scovetta (VGS) cover AWS’ Shared Responsibility model and its applications to achieving compliances like PCI and more.
Webinar
Building Payments 2.0 for Local Businesses with Fivestars, Powered by VGS
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
Customer Spotlight — MoonPay
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information.
Case Study
Customer Spotlight — Truebill
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information. Truebill - Securing customer data with “beyond bank-level” security.
Case Study
Customer Spotlight — Apto
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information. “PCI, including our yearly certification, has now become a breeze”
Case Study
Customer Spotlight — Seekom
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information.
Case Study
Customer Spotlight - United Naturals
United Naturals - With VGS, we take data security as seriously as your wellness. Learn how United Naturals smoothly integrated with VGS in record time. Today’s spotlight is Douglas Lauer, CTO and co-founder of United Naturals.
Case Study
Customer Spotlight - Streamline
Streamline using VGS to differentiate itself and remove risk from its business. Today’s hero is Chris Spears, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Streamline VRS.
Case Study
Customer Spotlight - TravelBank
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information. TravelBank’s innovative, all-in-one trip expense platform - protected by VGS
Case Study
Customer Spotlight - Paytient
We are happy to introduce Brian Whorley, CEO and founder of Paytient, an innovative health care technology company that leverages our solutions to protect sensitive patient data
Case Study
Customer Spotlight - Coverhound
Our Customer Spotlight series highlights the stories of VGS customers who have joined our mission to protect the world’s information. Today’s Hero is Nathan Seither, VP of Engineering at CoverHound and CyberPolicy
