IAFCI CONSTITUTION,
General Qualifications for Membership
A. Applicant must be of legal age in the country or state of residence.
B. Applicant must not have a record of an adult felony conviction or its equivalent in a legal jurisdiction or a felony or equivalent
criminal charge dismissed for cause from any Federal or State court or agency, or law enforcement agency of any jurisdiction.
C. Having met all other qualifications, no applicant will be denied membership because of sex, color, race, religion or ethnic origin.
D. Only individuals shall be eligible for membership. Membership may be transferable within a qualifying organization to another
qualified individual.
REGULAR MEMBERSHIP APPLICANTS
A person shall be eligible for Regular Membership if he/she is a full time employee of:
A. A Financial institution engaged in any of the following: prevention, detection, analysis, investigation, apprehension, education about
or prosecution of financial transaction fraud offenders.
B. Any subdivision of government: law enforcement officers, prosecutors or related public officials, who, within their agency or department,
have the primary or secondary responsibility for the investigation, investigative training, prevention, analysis, apprehension and/or prosecution of financial or related crimes.
C. The financial membership associations: personnel responsible for financial transaction security, analysis and/or education, including, but not limited to, MasterCard International, Visa USA, or Bankers Associations.
D. Service providers, engaged in investigations, analysis, data security, physical security, training and education, risk management and
fraud prevention, including, but not limited to, such providers as credit bureaus, card and check manufacturers, financial transaction
processors, financial personalization systems manufacturers, mail courier services and communications systems and financial security consultant, an individual whose primary duties involve the support of our members in the prevention, detection and prosecution of financial fraud; who perform these services for companies engaged in activities described in this section of the Constitution; and whose contributions are for the good of the Association, or
E. Financial Transaction Acceptors, including but not limited to hotels, car rental service companies, commercial airlines, or retail merchants,
who supply goods or services and accept financial transactions using financial transaction devices other than cash or barter: personnel
who assist directly in the investigation, detection, prevention, education and/or prosecution of financial transaction crimes.
F. Regular members may vote in any election and hold any elective or appointed office.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP APPLICANTS
A. A person is eligible for Associate Membership if he/she is: Full time Management or security personnel of companies, institutions or
organizations directly related to the financial transaction industry who do not qualify for Regular Membership under Regular Membership
and who are actively engaged in rendering one or more of the following services to the financial transaction industry or to law enforcement:
1. Manufacturing, Printing, Embossing, Encoding, Distribution, Sorting and Mailing of Financial Transaction Cards, Checks or Traveler's Cheques.
2. Manufacturing of imprinting, reading, embossing, encoding, or photo processing devices.
3. Independent financial transaction card, check or traveler's cheque authorization systems.
4. Development of Fraud detection devices and/or Systems.
5. Dissemination of credit history, fraud analysis, fraud prevention databases and programs, and associated fraud data.
6. Forensic examination and analysis.
7. Risk management and fraud prevention strategies.
8. Case management strategies and systems.
9. Educators of members or other users of financial transactions to prevent and detect fraud.
10. Investigations as the insurance provider for criminal financial transactions incurred against an issuer or merchant.
B. Associate members may not vote in any election, nor hold any elective office, but may hold appointive office.
C. Associate members may be excluded from any meeting or conference by the presiding officer and from receiving any bulletins, minutes,
electronic access or other data not given to the general public, except that they will receive the Annual Membership Directory.
EXCLUSIONS FROM MEMBERSHIP
A person is not eligible for membership if he/she provides investigative or intelligence gathering services, or collection services, whose obligations to their multiple clients could compromise the confidentiality of information collected through membership in the Association.