Arab Financial Services (AFS), the leading service provider of electronic payments and customer finance outsourcing services, became the first Payment Processor in the Middle East to accomplish the distinguished PCI DSS certification on its latest version release 3.2.

" AFS is proud to be amongst a handful of organizations worldwide that are accredited under PCI-DSS 3.2, one of the most stringent security standards worldwide." stated AFS Chief Executive Officer B Chandrasekhar. "The accreditation is a natural outcome of the methodical procedures we have always followed and promoted to provide high level security while making sure compliance for all our customers.".

" Security determines applied to payment cards in the framework of PCI DSS standard are released in all AFS options, consisting of the new Debit Processing platform and its range of Value Added Services such as Mobile Payments, Analytics, Loyalty to name a few." he added.

" AFS is proud to continue its journey of being the leaders in embracing such strict standards, and ending up being the 1st Service Provider reacting to the new 3.2 standards. We recognize the significance of offering assurance to our consumers on the durability of our operations" stated AFS Head of Information Security, Kunal Taneja.

" It is a proud moment for AFS and repeats our commitment to accomplish the highest standard of securityfor all our services and products" stated AFS Chairman Sael AlWaary.

AFS was assisted in this key initiative by SISA Information Security, the leading information risk management provider in the region.
Hearty congratulation to the entire AFS team on achieving PCI DSS v3.2 certificate of compliance. We appreciate AFS commitment towards 'security and not just compliance' audit philosophy of SISA Information Security WLL said SISA Chief Executive Officer and founder Mr. Dharshan Shanthamurthy.