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Is There Such A Thing As Healthy Friction Online?
September 04, 2019

Can friction be healthy for the eCommerce experience? Jen Singh, director of channel partnerships at Entersekt, tells PYMNTS that the consumer perception of what it means to safeguard their data is changing. Giving the consumer some control over authentication promotes trust from individuals on the FIs...

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CBD Products Offer Glimpse Of Retail’s Regulatory Future
August 22, 2019

The growing CBD industry offers one of the best retail and payments stories in the second half of 2019 — and offers lessons for merchants seeking to keep on the right side of regulatory pressure when it comes to various other products as well. Get...

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The Need For Dynamic PII In The (Delayed) Dawning Of The Age Of SCA
August 15, 2019

SCA may be facing a longer implementation period, but change is coming, of course. Ekata’s CEO Rob Eleveld tells Karen Webster that verification needs to combine aspects of the digital and physical worlds, and dynamic PII helps stay one step ahead of the fraudsters.

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Ekata CEO On The SCA Delay And The Future Of Authentication
August 14, 2019

You may have felt it earlier today – a sigh of relief originating from certain parts of the digital payments and commerce industry, a reaction to the news that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed to a phased implementation of the strong customer authentication...

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Consumers Not Averse To ‘Positive Friction’ In Sharing Economy Platforms
August 08, 2019

Sharing economy platforms have become a force to be reckoned with. Overall, roughly 111 million consumers use some type of sharing economy platform to make their lives easier. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Deep Dive: Securing Digital Identities Without Relying On Passwords
August 08, 2019

Digital identification continues to make immense strides in implementation and uptake in the world’s economy, but it is not without vulnerabilities. More than 4.5 billion digital records were compromised in the first half of 2018 alone — a staggering figure that could not have been...

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?
August 08, 2019

What was the color of the car you owned in 2005? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing...

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How The U.S. Government Sets The Benchmark For Digital ID Standards
August 07, 2019

Knowledge-based authentication is a popular choice among merchants and FIs for convenient digital ID verification – but with data breaches becoming a regular occurrence, reliance on KBA can cost big. In this month’s Digital ID Tracker, David Temoshok, senior policy advisor at the National Institute...

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Why Mobile Phones Are The Better Consumer Authentication Mousetrap
August 07, 2019

At this point in 2019, we’ve all dealt with some flavor of two-factor authentication that uses SMS one-time passcodes. We attempt a sign-in and see a prompt that tells us that a six- (or nine, or four) digit PIN is being texted to us, and that...