PCI (aka, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) equals compliance. Compliance equals opportunity, opportunity equals revenue, and revenue is good — particularly when working for a professional services firm. Community banks and credit unions do not issue credit cards directly, and they do not conduct credit card transactions. Eventually the standard is going to include any party, business or institution that either directly or indirectly participates in the issuance or handling of credit card data. Eventually that will trend right into the smallest of financial institutions.”]

