PCI compliance requires meeting standards connected to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) which was compiled by major credit card companies such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. Merchants that handle cardholder information must maintain PCI compliance or be penalized by the companies responsible for creating the standard.
PCI compliance is one of the key methods used to prevent credit card fraud, among other security measures such as tokenization and 3D Secure Checkout. As an advanced payment platform is PCI compliant, when a business chooses to use one for processing payments, it no longer needs to concern itself with attaining compliance.
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