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# Built a payments compliance tool for APAC merchants and acquirers — would love feedback from anyone in the space

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/fintech/comments/1upehqz/built_a_payments_compliance_tool_for_apac/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

I’ve spent 20 years in card payments — card switching, merchant acquiring, EFT infrastructure across APAC. One thing that’s always been painful at the operational level is compliance checking: is this MCC valid for this merchant type? Does this DCC rate spread breach Visa or Mastercard tolerance? Most teams do this manually, in spreadsheets, or buried inside internal tools that took years to build. I decided to build something accessible. Beskytter is a payments compliance platform with two tool

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