MMP Requirements 2026
Mastercard’s strengthened MMP requirements are reshaping onboarding and monitoring
Acting now ensures smoother compliance, reduced operational burden, and better outcomes for your merchant portfolio. G2 Risk Solutions automates and operationalizes these requirements end-to-end, giving you a clear path to 2026 compliance.
Scalable, confident compliance
Meet Mastercard’s expanded expectations with fewer surprises, clear evidence trails, and the ability to scale monitoring without adding headcount.
Proactive, actionable intelligence
Identify BRAM, TL, MCC, and marketplace issues early. Reduce fines, prevent escalations, and improve decisioning.
Smarter, faster resolution
Reduce manual review, accelerate investigations, and confidently meet the 15-day remediation requirement.
Complete, unified transparency
Gain visibility into URLs, products, sellers, and gated content to uncover issues other tools miss. Deliver complete documentation in line with MMP standards.
G2 Risk Solutions was the first recognized Merchant Monitoring Service Provider
MMP compliance at onboarding
Approve good merchants faster and stop risky ones earlier. Reducing fines, avoiding escalations, and strengthening audit readiness. Global Onboarding’s automated Merchant Risk History (MRH) component integrates past merchant behavior patterns and up-to-date information, to predict future risk.
Historical data
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Confirmed/suspected transaction laundering cases
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Confirmed/potential content violations
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MCC change history: Can point to past high-risk activity
Risk signals
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Types of data that indicate potential merchant risk: Duplicates with other merchants, connections to illicit activity, incorrectly submitted data, age of domain
Get your content in order
Continuous monitoring and automated content checks provide complete visibility to maintain and document compliance. Global Onboarding’s Content Compliance (CC) scans merchant websites for BRAM-restricted content, quickly identifying violations and risk before the first transaction, without slowing the onboarding process.
Audit-ready reports
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Violations classified according to severity and categories
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Audit notes provide a deeper look at decision reasoning
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Screenshots furnish evidence for compliance documentation
Persistent monitoring at scale
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Automatically scan the site, including gated/password-protected content
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Transition from onboarding to monitoring with just one click
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Access consistent, comprehensive merchant data in a unified portal
Merchant Risk Solutions
Risk solutions for the full merchant lifecycle
Grow your payments business with complete merchant risk intelligence across onboarding, monitoring, and emerging risk
Onboarding
Onboard merchants faster without sacrificing risk controls
Monitoring
Monitor merchants continuously as risk evolves
Risk Intelligence
Expose complex and emerging merchant threats
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