CardinalCommerce and MITEC to offer Cardinal’s Universal Merchant Platform to Mexican Merchants

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) October 30, 2014 -- CardinalCommerce and MITEC (Mercadotecnia Ideas y Tecnologia) have joined forces to offer Cardinal’s Universal Merchant Platform, Centinel®, to MITEC’s Merchant-Customers throughout Mexico.

Through this partnership with Cardinal, MITEC will integrate the proprietary Cardinal Centinel platform and offer Cardinal’s rules-based Consumer Authentication, as well as other 3-D Secure protocols such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard® SecureCode™ to MITEC’s Merchant-Customers. The Centinel platform also gives MITEC’s Customers access to a variety of alternative payment brands and digital wallets, giving Mexican Consumers a choice of which payment methods to use while shopping online.

Bruce Poore, Cardinal’s SVP Financial Institution Services, said, “Cardinal’s award-winning technology has helped eCommerce merchants and financial institutions worldwide, as mandates for 3-D Secure have rolled out. With our partnership with MITEC, we’ll be able to help more Merchants in Mexico keep their eCommerce transactions safe and secure with our patented rules-based approach to Consumer Authentication. With One Connection, we help FutureProofTM our Customers’ and Partners’ payments business.”

This partnership will also allow MITEC and Cardinal to work together in the Mexican market to address payment needs with innovative solutions and secure infrastructure, and to contribute to the growth of secure eCommerce in Mexico.

According to Gabriel Gomez, MITEC’s Director of Communications, “As a leading Payment Service Provider in Mexico, MITEC shares Cardinal’s goals to protect Merchants from fraud and chargebacks, increase sales and manage transactions. Using Cardinal’s Consumer Authentication solution Mexican Merchants will be protected with the benefits of 3-D Secure protocols.”

About CardinalCommerce
CardinalCommerce is the pioneer and global leader in enabling authenticated payment transactions in the card-not-present payments industry since 1999. Through One Connection to our proprietary SafeCloudTM payment platform, CardinalCommerce enables friction-free, technology-neutral authentication and alternative payment services (including digital wallets and mobile commerce services). Cardinal services, partners with and complements most providers in the marketplace to deliver their One Connection to secure transactions. In accommodating this growing number of payment brands and methods, Cardinal's platforms serve as universal switches, supporting virtually all merchant platforms, wallets, legacy processing systems and authentication methodologies.

CardinalCommerce is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and services a worldwide Customer base from facilities in the United States, Europe and Africa. For more information, visit http://www.cardinalcommerce.com

About MITEC
Mercadotecnia Ideas y Tecnologia (MITEC) is a leading transactional gateway in Mexico. The company provides specialized transactional services, from banks to retailers and inter-institutions, making a smooth technological connection between them allowing better payment solutions, customer services, information exchange and value added services based on marketing focus, client oriented philosophy and the best available technology.
http://www.mitec.com.mx

Media Contacts:
Tara Lavelle
VP Marketing
CardinalCommerce Corporation
877.352.8444
tlavelle(at)cardinalcommerce(dot)com

Gabriel Gomez
Director of Communications
Mercadotecnia, Ideas y Tecnologia
Mexico, City
5255 1500 9067
gabriel(dot)gomez9at)mitec(dot)com(dot)mx

Tara Lavelle, CardinalCommerce, +1 (440) 352-8444 Ext: 228, [email protected]