As financial services firms push deeper into digital channels, identity verification has quietly become one of the most consequential—and most underestimated—forces shaping growth, risk and customer experience. “When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Enough: Digital Identity Verification in the Age of Bots and Agents,” a collaboration between...
Fiserv-owned commerce solution Clover has launched a partnership with biometric identity/payments platform Wink. The collaboration integrates Wink’s face and palm payments technology into Clover’s platform, the companies announced in a Wednesday (Jan. 7) news release. “The new solution will enable Clover merchants to offer the...
Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone. Increasingly, they persuade, fatigue or impersonate their way past defenses that were designed to stop credential theft but now sit at the center of more complex attack chains. The shift is showing up in data. The PYMNTS...
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Trulioo’s Hal Lonas Payments and commerce security relies on the verification of identities to reduce fraud and keep transactions flowing securely across a global ecosystem. At Trulioo, Chief Technology Officer Hal Lonas said the biggest lifts often come from...
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Entersekt’s Dewald Nolte The most important players in digital commerce are usually the ones consumers never see. They work behind the scenes, building systems that keep authorization moving, eliminate outages and secure transactions even during the busiest shopping moments...
In the age of AI agents and synthetic identities, the biggest risk to corporate security may be complacency. Most firms think their digital identity systems are working, and that misplaced confidence is costing them real money. According to “The Hidden Costs of ‘Good Enough’: Identity Verification...
Trulioo has recorded substantial growth in its know-your-business (KYB) transaction volume since 2023. The identity platform announced Monday (Oct. 27) that its KYB transaction volume had grown 1,996% during that time frame, with a 102% year-over-year increase. “The KYB growth has helped fuel a 134%...
Worldpay has launched a service that is designed to increase payment approvals and reduce friction for merchants using 3D Secure (3DS) to authenticate payments. This Authentication Optimization Service is widely available to merchants that accept payments in non-3DS regulated markets, the company said in a...
Watch more: From Bolt-On to Built-In: Identity’s Payments Moment As real-time commerce accelerates, the future of authentication isn’t about remembering. It’s about being recognized. “Passwords are dinosaurs,” said Chris Palumbo, chief risk officer at Citadel Credit Union, during a recent PYMNTS panel on the future...