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Mastercard trials Digital Identity in real world tests

16 Dec 19 @ 16:41

Mastercard is to tests a new digital identity service that has the potential to verify a person’s identity immediately, safely and securely in both the digital and the physical world.... read more

Nets trials face payment in Copenhagen

09 Dec 19 @ 09:21

With the tagline ‘Hungry? Face it’, Nets has launched a pilot programme testing facial recognition as a face payment alternative payment method. Around 1,000 people – all working at Vibenshuset,... read more

Consumers want it all: High security, minimal friction digital experiences

26 Nov 19 @ 09:16

A new report commissioned by Ekata reveals that a majority of consumers demand trust, security, and data privacy, and also expect their digital experiences to be fast and frictionless. For... read more

UK consumers give thumbs up to biometric verification

06 Nov 19 @ 09:53

UK consumers are keen to use biometric verification in a wide range of circumstances from online shopping and banking to confirming their age at a pub and even voting in... read more

Digital Identity: What’s the big IDea?

28 Oct 19 @ 17:06

Senior executives, commentators and analysts all agree – a workable digital identity is key to next-generation payments. Without functioning digital ID, the payments revolution will stall. But as state-sponsored national... read more

NatWest first UK bank to launch biometric credit card

07 Oct 19 @ 13:02

NatWest is piloting fingerprint based biometric credit card with 150 customers, in partnership with Mastercard and Gemalto, it is the first biometric credit card issued by a UK bank. The... read more

SCA survey: Security vs. convenience in the payment experience

05 Sep 19 @ 13:58

With Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) coming into force on 14 September 2019 as the final part of PSD2, many online businesses are required to add additional security measures to large... read more

Emerging markets driving biometric authorised payments

29 Aug 19 @ 15:54

By 2023, the global biometrics market is predicted to grow by more than 15%, to over $24 billion. Yet, despite many of today’s most commonly-adopted biometric technologies stemming from the... read more

Mobile: The centre of the fraud prevention universe

16 Aug 19 @ 09:55

The bad guys are winning. This is the sentiment of many financial institution (FI) and merchant fraud mitigation executives, who are finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the... read more

Global FinTech investments falls sharply – Trade war and poor economic outlook to blame

15 Aug 19 @ 13:09

According to a new report, global investments in FinTech has  fallen by 29% in H1 2019 as deal activity in China in particular fell sharply amid an escalating trade war... read more

Strong Customer Authentication: What matters most to online shoppers – security or convenience?

27 Jun 19 @ 08:23

With Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) coming into force on 14 September 2019 as the final part of PSD2, many online businesses are required to add additional security measures to large... read more

Voice commerce market and potential growing rapidly

10 Jun 19 @ 12:53

A Juniper Research report predicts that by 2023 there will be 8 billion devices with voice assistants in them, up from 2.5 billion at the end of 2018, and that... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more