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Two credit-card payment processors are offering to cover merchants' fines and penalties in the event of a data breach. However, the two companies, Heartland Payment Systems and Mercury Payment Systems, have different requirements that must be met before a merchant would qualify for coverage. For Mercury, the retailer would have to prove it was Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard-compliant (PCI DSS) at the time of a breach. "This is an enticement program to get merchants involved in PCI compliance," Jim Mackay, Mercury's vice president of marketing, told SCMagazineUS.com Friday. "Though there are critics who say that PCI does not go far enough, at least it's a step in the right direction."