Direct Pay Online Group Becomes the First Payments Service Provider in Africa to Receive International Security Certification in 12 Countries

 Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits in the Group’s global headquarters and all its other markets which include Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Botswana, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In Africa, the Direct Pay Online Group headquarters is in Kenya and the team on ground runs all other markets with the support of local branches & teams.

PCI DSS is the highest privacy and security standard in the Payments industry and applies to entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data or sensitive authentication data. The certification is administered by the PCI DSS Council, which was founded by Visa Inc, MasterCard Worldwide, American Express, Discover Financial Service and JCB International.

“As Direct Pay Online, our goal is to keep up with the highest level of security, privacy and standards, in any market we go into. We process merchant payments from all major credit cards, mobile money and e-wallets, and ensure that their data is protected. This compliance certificate demonstrates that our systems are up to par with international security standards.” Eran Feinstein, the DPO Group CEO stated.

Offer Gat, DPO Group Chairman added,” being awarded this certification shows we’ve complied with the highest standards of security in the industry. We serve a host of merchants in the hotel, airline, tours, schools, utilities, insurance, e-commerce and the travel industry and other sectors, thus we have to employ best practices for managing any business that comes into contact with credit card information.” 

In addition to the certification, Direct Pay Online has a state-of-the-art fraud prevention and risk management solution that has been developed by the group for the African market. The solution features real time monitoring, fraudulent patterns detection, scoring module, blocking and blacklisting. This is also supported by a 24-hour fraud prevention team that monitors real time transactions. This technology supports real-time payments for cards, mobile money, customer to business & business to business payments within a single platform. The DPO Group also provides a solution that fills the gap between the merchant and their customers.  The solution enables merchants to launch various modes of payment including online invoicing, website integration and virtual terminals, and accept all forms of payment including major cards, e-wallets and cross border mobile money. The platform also accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, M-PESA, Airtel Money, MTN Money, Tigo & mVisa.

“Our end to end fraud solution is based on Direct Pay Online’s technology thus providing a safe and secure process for payments. This gives our merchants and consumers’ confidence when making payments online as their information is protected by multiple layers,” Feinstein adds.