Tagged: sca

August 21, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the cloud-based payments service provider, announced updates to its Authentication product “to help merchants combat fraud and optimize their revenues, with an evolving toolkit of products and features to help merchants navigate the rapidly evolving landscape.” Checkout.com’s enhancements to its Authentication solution “comes at… Read More

May 15, 2022 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New payment checks at online checkouts are “proving invaluable” as Nationwide Building Society reports it is “protecting its members from an additional 2,000 cases of online card fraud a month.” Despite the fact that some transactions now take a little longer, new research from UK’s… Read More

April 16, 2022 @ 11:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Data from Barclaycard Payments, which handles £1 in every £3 spent on credit and debit cards in the United Kingdom, reveals that many online businesses are still “not fully compliant with the new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulation – which became mandatory for all transactions… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, which recently raised $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, notes that Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is now “mandated across all of Europe and businesses have had to make changes to make sure they are compliant.” The team at Checkout.com writes in a blog… Read More

February 22, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Wilson, Head of Public Policy at TrueLayer, notes that Open banking started back in 2018 thanks to appropriate regulations (PSD2) which gave consumers the right “to access their bank account data using third parties called account information services providers (AISPs).” However, these same set… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sift, the Digital Trust & Safety solution provider, has announced that it has acquired Keyless, a pioneer in passwordless and multi-factor authentication. Keyless’ zero-knowledge cryptography and privacy-preserving biometric authentication tech has been designed to eliminate account takeover (ATO) fraud because of “weak or stolen passwords,… Read More

August 10, 2021 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research recently published a whitepaper titled, “Cash is No Longer King: How Contactless Payments are Becoming the Norm.” The paper from Juniper Research notes that bricks-and-mortar retailers are now “under pressure” to provide increasingly “frictionless” shopping experiences. Consumers have started expecting quick, secured, and… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 2:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an international provider of real-time payments and digital payment software applications, reveals that it has teamed up with Swedbank, a leading issuing and acquiring bank in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The company has contributed to a 55% decrease in payment… Read More

June 14, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA), a regulatory body of the European Union that’s headquartered in Paris, released a report, earlier this week, on the data offered by payment service providers (PSPs) on their readiness to apply strong customer authentication (SCA) for the set of payment… Read More

May 21, 2021 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be postponing the implementation of strong customer authentication (SCA) rules by another 6 months in order to minimize disruption for individual consumers and merchants. First scheduled for release in September 2019, the SCA guidelines – which require a… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) testing performed by tech giant Microsoft reveals that consumers are actually leaving their planned purchases at relatively high rates when challenged at the time of checkout. SCA is a European regulatory requirement that aims to reduce or eliminate fraudulent activities and… Read More

October 28, 2019 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has prepared a  draft of a resolution on regulating digital assets, which aims to offer more clarity for cryptocurrency-related initiatives in the Middle Eastern country. Comments are being accepted until October 29, 2019. With the… Read More

August 23, 2019 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Beginning September 14, 2019, European Union rules regarding “Strong Customer Authentication” (SCA), part of PSD2, kick in. These rules, which also impact the UK, involve the way in which banks or payment services providers verify their customers’ identity and validate specific payment instructions. Mandated API… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 12:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform Stripe announced on Wednesday it has acquired Ireland-based Touchtech Payments, a software company, to accelerate Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for financial institutions. According to Stripe, TouchTech Payments provides advanced SCA-ready authentication technology for some of Europe’s leading fintechs and challenger banks, like N26,… Read More