CTT solution allows compliance with new payment card rules 0

IT | Gareth Jones | 11 Mar 2010

The Charity Technology Trust has partnered with BT to offer charities the first automated system for collecting credit or debit card details via telephone that is certified as tier-one compliant with the card payment industry's data security standards.

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