MENTOR, Ohio, Feb. 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- CardinalCommerce, a leader in the payment authentication service market, has announced that its highly flexible and extensible Cardinal CentinelTM authentication software for merchants now supports JCB, the world's fourth largest international credit card brand. The JCB 3-D Secure payment initiative, J/Secure, is designed to address cardholder concerns when shopping online and protect merchants and their acquirers from the brunt of fraud liability as well.
"JCB is pleased that Cardinal Commerce is among the first US companies to integrate J/Secure into their payment authentication services", states Julie Krueger, Vice President of Emerging Technologies for JCB USA. "J/Secure provides additional protection to our 50 million cardmembers, especially as e-commerce purchases are becoming more and more commonplace in Japan. J/Secure also significantly increases the confidence of US merchants in accepting the JCB credit card and in shipping to our cardmembers in the Asia Pacific region."
Cardinal is the first company worldwide to offer a simple comprehensive authentication service to merchants and acquirers, encompassing all 3-D Secure initiatives. Due to the unique architecture of Centinel, Cardinal can immediately enable its existing partners' 400,000 merchants with J/Secure thus expanding secure transaction coverage and lower fraud to a larger percentage of merchant transactions.
"As the global leader of merchant and acquirer authentication software, CardinalCommerce is excited that JCB has selected us to accelerate and enhance global adoption of J/Secure", says John Lazzaro, Senior Vice President of CardinalCommerce. "JCB's commitment to J/Secure further solidifies the payment industry's support of secure payment initiatives. As a leader in authentication software, Cardinal is committed to leveraging industry support to extend card-not-present authentication to new channels and markets."
About JCB
JCB is an international credit card brand and the largest card issuer/acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding overseas in 1981. Its merchant network includes 11.4 million merchants and spans 189 countries and territories. JCB cards are now issued in 18 countries and territories, with 49.6 million card members. As part of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with more than 320 leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase merchant coverage and card member base. JCB's corporate philosophy of "Service from the Heart", a commitment to responsive, high-quality service, continues to guide it as it creates the future together with its customers, merchants and partners. For further information, please visit the JCB International homepage at http://www.jcbinternational.com
About CardinalCommerce Corporation
CardinalCommerce Corporation is a leading provider of a technology-neutral authentication platform for securing electronic and wireless commerce, thus ensuring that individuals, businesses and government agencies can process electronic transactions and access confidential information safely, securely and privately. Cardinal's proprietary technology provides consumers, merchants, credit/debit card issuers, and processors the ability to conduct fully authenticated Internet-based e-commerce, while protecting the transactions from fraud. CardinalCommerce is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and has partners throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India. For more information, visit www.cardinalcommerce.com.
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