The International Gaming Standards Association has announced that it has welcomed VISA as a new participant in its Payments Committee.
In a recent release, IGSA President Mark Pace praised the move, noting that VISA joins “several other payments-related companies” as active participants in the committee.
Pace noted that “VISA is a world-known multi-national card and digital payments corporation. Their participation in this committee brings a wealth of knowledge and input from the ‘brand’ side of the payments process. We look forward to announcing more companies in the Payments space joining this important committee, as we continue down the path of producing Payments Standards and Best Practices for the industry, with the industry.”
The IGSA currently has 11 committees, focusing on a range of issues from artificial intelligence, regulation, online gaming, cyber resiliency and more.
The Payments Standards Committee ‘is charged with identifying and developing standards designed to create a payments framework whereby the security of payments transactions is protected, and traceability of payments transactions is enhanced, in the Global Gaming Industry,’ indicates the IGSA.
The IGSA identifies itself as the ‘largest technical standards development organization dedicated to the creation and evolution of Standards and protocols to the betterment of the global gaming industry’, with membership in over 20 countries and input from regulators, operators and suppliers from over 30 countries.
