The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography is a coalition of credit card

Credit card

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 issuers and Internet services companies that seeks to eliminate commercial child pornography by taking action on the payment systems that are used to fund these illegal operations.

Twenty-nine of the world’s most prominent financial institutions and Internet industry leaders have joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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 (NCMEC) and its sister organization, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children is a global service agency working against child exploitation and abduction.The group works with Interpol, law enforcement, and elected officials worldwide to combat child pornography and abduction.ICMEC was founded in 1998 by the USA...

 (ICMEC), in the fight against Internet child pornography. The group is called the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography and its goal is to eradicate commercial child pornography.

Senator Richard C. Shelby (R-AL), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, was the catalyst in bringing these industry leaders together to address the problem.

The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography includes leading banks, credit card companies, third-party payment companies, and Internet services companies. Members of the Coalition include America Online, American Express Company, Authorize.net

Authorize.Net

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, Bank of America

Bank of America

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, Capital One

Capital One

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, Chase

Chase (bank)

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, Citigroup

Citigroup

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, Discover Financial Services LLC, First Data Corporation, First National Bank of Omaha, Google

Google

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, HSBC - NA, JP Morgan Chase, MasterCard

MasterCard

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, Microsoft

Microsoft

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, North American Bancard

North American Bancard

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, Nova Information Systems, PayPal

PayPal

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, First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard, Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank

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, Visa, Washington Mutual

Washington Mutual

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, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

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, and Yahoo! Inc.