Webinar – Visa Acquiring Monitoring Program (VAMP) – What is it? How is it Calculated and Why it Matters!

11  December 2025  | 4:00pm GMT  |   Online   |  Book your place here

Back in May, the ODDA hosted a webinar on Visa’s Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP), which launched on April 1, 2025, marking the most significant overhaul in years of how chargeback and fraud performance are assessed across the payments industry. Six months on, we wanted to revisit the topic to see what’s happened since then and to take a more detailed look at what these changes will mean for businesses in the online dating and other high-risk sectors.

Our expert panel will cover:

• A VAMP refresher – what it is, how it’s calculated, and why it matters
• The real impact on your acquirers and your business
• How platforms can proactively adapt, stay compliant, and prevent increasing cardholder fraud, including:
  – Pre-transaction best practices (transaction logic, descriptors, refund policies, etc.)
  – Fraud prevention and remediation tools, including those from Visa and Mastercard
  – Enriched post-transaction data to reduce misuse
  – Better data signals that speed alignment and stop friendly fraud sooner
• Live Q&A with our expertsJoining us on the 11th December at 16:00 (GMT) will be Damian Palgan from Shift4 and Scott Bright and Eduardo Perez from Brightcheck.Tickets are free and open to non-members. All registered attendees will have access to a recording of this webinar as well as an exclusive checklist developed by our panellists.
  

  About our Speakers:

  Damian Palgan
  Damian was appointed VP of Business Development & Commercial Integration at Shift4 in 2024. With over 11 years in the payments industry at Shift4 and Worldline, he has a strong track record in high-risk market expansion, global partnerships, and acquiring solutions for merchants, ISOs, and acquirers. Damian helps merchants navigate the complexities of high-risk markets, compliance, and Visa/Mastercard requirements worldwide.

  Scott Bright
  Scott Bright is the Founder and CEO of BrightCheck, a trust and safety platform that uses identity intelligence, device insights, and enriched post-transaction data to help merchants reduce first-party fraud and strengthen their dispute outcomes. With more than 25 years of experience building fraud and risk products at companies such as Visa, FIS Global, and American Express, Scott has led enterprise programs that protect billions in annual transaction volume. His work focuses on giving merchants and platforms clearer data signals so they can prevent misuse earlier, reduce chargebacks, and operate with stronger compliance and lower operational risk.

  Eduardo Perez
  Eduardo Perez, serves on the Board of Advisors for BrightCheck and other leading security and fraud prevention companies. He is a dynamic payments leader with 30 years of payments, risk management and bank supervision experience. Eduardo recently completed a 22 year tenure at Visa Inc., serving in multiple roles and culminating as SVP and Regional Risk Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is known for creating value, developing leaders, and designing ecosystem behavioral frameworks and incentives. Prior to Visa, Eduardo held leadership roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, including as Manager of the Country Analysis & Foreign Bank Supervision. Eduardo holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and received a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.