About Us

Customer / Card Not Present.com is a leading resource for ecommerce, catalogue and other merchants that accept card- and card-not-present payments. The Customer / Card Not Present.com portal is a hub for information about the payments issues that most affect merchants operating in the space, including chargebacks, ecommerce fraud, interchange and alternative payments. In addition to regular feature articles and updates to the portal, Customer / Card Not Present.com also publishes CNP Report, a twice weekly enewsletter keeping readers up to date on breaking news in the card-not-present payments space.

The Founder

Steven Casco is the founder and publisher of CardNotPresent.com, a leading resource for e-commerce, catalogue and other merchants that accept customer- and card-not-present payments.

From 2005 to 2010, Casco served in various roles at Prepaid Media, a company focused solely on the burgeoning prepaid card industry. In 2005 he helped lead the creation and operation of the Prepaid Card Expo, the first trade show and conference for the industry. After the Expo was sold in 2007 to IIR USA, Prepaid Media continued as a B2B media company, where Casco served as the primary developer and technological force behind Paybefore.com, the leading publication for the prepaid and stored value card industry.

In 2007, Paybefore.com was named Best Financial Website by Ektron, Inc. From 2007 to 2010 Casco served as Senior Vice President and eventually, President of Paybefore. In 2011, Paybefore.com was acquired by Informa (LSE: INF.L), a London-based publisher, trade show organizer, business and academic information provider and the parent company of IIR USA.

Prior to Prepaid Media, Casco had successful stints as an entrepreneur, published author, University faculty member and guest lecturer. In 1996, Mr. Casco founded @eaze Productions, Inc., a media and custom software company where he served as President until its acquisition in 2000 by Conceptware AG a leading German software company.

Following the acquisition, Casco published his first book in the field of Internet and Software Security and joined the faculty of Northeastern University in Boston. He has also been invited to serve as a guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Casco received his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

You can contact Steve by email at steve (at) CardNotPresent (dot) com and his direct phone is
978-761-9198.

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