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Three quarters of the Visa registry is not a PCI DSS validation

The Visa Global Registry of Service Providers lists thousands of Third Party Agents with no validation date. Treat every row as PCI compliant and you mislabel most of it. How we read it, with the counts.

CertReports Research · 17 Sep 2026 · 10 min read