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Industry-specific processing guides for firearms, CBD, kratom, vape and smoke shops, supplements, and other high-risk verticals: what underwriters look for and how to stay approved.
In December 2020, Visa and Mastercard cut off the world’s best-known adult site. What happened, what Pornhub did next, and how it reshaped processing for every adult merchant.
The adult industry helped invent online payments, then spent 25 years being squeezed by the networks it helped build. Here’s how that relationship shaped processing today.
Most adult account freezes trace back to a handful of causes: the wrong platform, the wrong MCC, disputes from unrecognized charges, and policies that don’t match the site.
The documents, policies and website details adult underwriters ask for, by business type, so you can walk into underwriting prepared instead of collecting paperwork after a decline.
With age verification laws in roughly half of U.S. states and the Supreme Court upholding Texas’s law, here’s what adult merchants need to know to stay processable.
Visa’s VIRP and Mastercard’s specialty registration set the real rules for adult merchants. What each requires, what it costs in 2026, and how to stay compliant.
What the 2024 prop firm collapses revealed about underwriting risk and what processors and regulators expect from prop firms through 2026.
The most common problems prop firms hit at scale — merchant account caps, chargebacks, and processor risk — and proven approaches to fix each one.
How Visa’s VAMP chargeback monitoring affects prop trading firms, what dispute rates trigger enforcement, and how to protect your processing account.
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