Hi Guys. Was reading the Intercept quarterly report and saw some real interesting stuff.
The one thing that may interest some of you here is the following:
"Additionally, we are not able to acquire transactions on behalf of foreign sponsored merchants, unless the transaction is from an acquirer within the sponsored merchant's region. We have established relationships with a foreign bank to serve as iBill's acquiring bank. If we fail to comply with the new Visa rule, Visa may fine our acquiring bank, which will in turn seek indemnification from us. We were notified on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 that our acquiring bank plans to suspend our Visa account on Friday, May 16, allegedly due to our failure to comply with applicable Visa rules. We believe we are in compliance with those Visa rules. This action, if it occurs, will effectively terminate our ability to process Visa transactions in Europe. Those transactions contribute approximately 4-6% of our aggregate merchant processing revenues. We have urged representatives of the bank to withdraw this threat. Although we intend to pursue all available legal remedies for this action, we cannot as a practical matter replace the acquiring bank in this time frame, and we could lose a majority, if not all, of the revenues from our Visa transactions in Europe if the bank follows through with its threatened action. "
Here's the url where i got it from
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/030515/icpt10-q.html