Alaska Financial & Capital Corp. provides Offshore Merchant Accounts. Our service focuses on providing high quality offshore credit card processing solutions for the global marketplace. An offshore credit card merchant account can meet the needs of merchants in the U.S. and beyond, providing low cost, efficient processing capabilities utilizing the latest in merchant services technology.
An offshore acquiring bank can have a higher tolerance for risk and be more willing to underwrite high risk, restricted, or prohibited business types. Many acquiring banks outside of the United States have access to a more limited market for acquiring merchants. Without access to the US market, they are more willing to consider business types that a US bank would decline. Offshore acquirers are also more likely to provide a merchant account with higher volumes, higher tickets, or unlimited sales volume restrictions. Offshore acquiring banks are capable of providing offshore merchant accounts to businesses that have had previous chargeback problems, or that have been listed on the TMF or Match file. Merchants located in emerging international markets or Ex-Patriots living and doing business abroad often have difficulty obtaining high quality and fairly prices merchant services due to their local financial institutions being unable or unwilling to provide service. It is not uncommon for emerging markets to have a very small number of acquiring banks (one or two in an entire country). It’s possible these acquirers may not even accept e-commerce or Card-Not-Present merchants at all.
We can provide an offshore merchant accounts to businesses that must have them. Contact us now for more information.