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Pinwheel Achieves PCI DSS Level 2 Compliance for Its Income and Employment Connectivity Powered Solutions
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Pinwheel is now a PCI DSS Level 2 Compliant provider of income and employment data, strengthening its commitment to setting the industry standard for security and compliance.
NEW YORK, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Pinwheel, the market-leading provider of income and employment data engineered for next-generation fintech innovation, achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 2 compliance.
The PCI DSS is a set of security standards designed to ensure that all companies that accept, process, store, or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. To achieve PCI DSS Level 2 compliance, Pinwheel underwent a rigorous assessment carried out by A-LIGN, an independent Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). The review evaluated the company's infrastructure, policies, and procedures against the PCI DSS requirements, which include maintaining a secure network, implementing strong access control measures, and regularly monitoring and testing networks.
This milestone demonstrates Pinwheel's unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest security standards and protecting sensitive customer data. As a result, customers can feel confident that their data - ultimately, the consumers' critical income and employment data - is well protected when using Pinwheel's payroll connectivity solutions.
Pinwheel's growing list of compliance certifications and achievements includes the following:
-- SOC 2 Type II Certification: A third-party audit evaluating Pinwheel's
security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and
privacy.
-- Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA): Pinwheel was the first income and
connectivity provider to provide consumer-permissioned income and
employment data to clients while ensuring consumers have full
protections available under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA),
unlocking new FCRA-permissible use cases like credit evaluation.
-- ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification: The highest security certification in
the industry.
-- Visa-Ready Certification: Meeting Visa's global standards around
security and functionality, Pinwheel recently joined the Visa Fintech
Partner Connect Program, allowing Pinwheel to work more seamlessly with
merchants, financial institutions, and fintech companies to launch new
use cases.
-- The Income and Employment Connectivity Industry's First and Only CISO:
Last year, Pinwheel appointed Jeff Hudesman as its CISO.
"Reaching PCI DSS Level 2 compliance is a testament to our dedication to providing secure and reliable solutions for fintechs, financial institutions, and their customers," said Jeff Hudesman, CISO at Pinwheel. "Pinwheel's ability to streamline innovation and power use cases is meaningless if the information is not impeccably safeguarded. Security has always been, and will remain, a guiding principle for Pinwheel, as we remain committed to the ongoing journey of exceeding and creating new security standards for the industry."
About Pinwheel:
Pinwheel is the market-leading income and employment API. With Pinwheel, fintechs, and financial institutions are empowered to build the next generation of financial products that will help create a fairer financial system. Pinwheel provides access to consumer-permissioned income & employment accounts and actionable insights that help them make sense of the data they need to tailor their tools and services for consumers. Pinwheel's platform has enterprise-grade security protocols to power connections to over 1,600 platforms (covering up to 100% of US workers who are paid via direct deposit), and over 1.5 million employers. From that point of connectivity, leading fintechs and financial institutions (such as Block, formerly Square) leverage us to power direct deposit switching, earned wage access, income & employment verification, and build innovative new products. Pinwheel is also a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA), making the company the first provider in the space offering Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-compliant income and employment data that lenders can use actively in decisioning. Pinwheel is trusted and funded with $77M by top-tier investors such as GGV, Coatue, First Round Capital, and more.
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SOURCE Pinwheel
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