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- E-Commerce
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- Fraud
- Services
The ISG and Merchant Cloud partnership brings together complementary acquiring and payment processing capabilities to deliver a unified, cloud-enabled solution for acquirers. Through a seamless integration with Mastercard gateway front-end routing services and ISG clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting capabilities, the partnership provides a streamlined operating model supported jointly by both organizations. Acquirers benefit from coordinated onboarding, support, and service-level commitments, helping reduce complexity while accelerating time to value.
Key advantages include:
- Cloud-enabled acquiring infrastructure with integrated routing, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting capabilities.
- A simplified operating model featuring joint onboarding, customer support, and SLA management from both Mastercard gateway and ISG.
- Advanced operational capabilities including real-time fraud and settlement risk management, real-time settlement, multi-acquirer merchant reconciliation, dispute management, and scheme compliance support.
- A scalable and audit-ready platform designed to improve operational efficiency while supporting regulatory and compliance requirements.
- A global solution with regional flexibility, enabling acquirers, processors, PayFacs, and fintechs to expand into new markets through ongoing innovation and partnership-driven growth.
Onlayer is an AI-powered merchant risk intelligence platform that helps acquiring banks, PSPs, and payment facilitators automate the full merchant lifecycle — from onboarding due diligence to continuous monitoring. Covering both e-commerce and physical POS merchants across 150+ country-specific regulatory and card scheme frameworks, Onlayer scans 200+ risk signals to detect fraud, compliance violations, and hidden merchant risk at global and local levels. With 20M+ merchants scanned, 200+ clients worldwide, and certifications as a Mastercard Technology Provider, Onlayer is the trusted compliance and fraud prevention partner for acquirers globally.
Onlayer’s scope with Mastercard covers the following product areas:
Merchant onboarding — for any type of merchant.
Merchant monitoring — e-commerce and physical POS continuous monitoring, e-skimming and malware detection, and geolocation monitoring for physical terminals.
Onboarding decision engine and physical POS ruleset engine — automated risk decisioning.
Platform and support — SaaS platform access, integration support, and customizable department management.
The descriptions provided here come directly from each partner, and Mastercard makes no representations regarding their accuracy or suitability. The partners listed in this document each work with Mastercard in different ways, but introduction inclusion doesn’t imply any legal partnership or agency relationship. If you’d like to understand the nature of any specific relationship and how services are provided in connection with Merchant Cloud, please contact us.