- Monday 18th March - 8:06 pm
Biometric technologies have garnered increasing attention and adoption in recent years, transforming the authentication and digital identification landscape across various industries.
From fingerprint scans to facial recognition and iris scanning to pay-by-hand, unique biometric identifiers offer ...
- Thursday 14th March - 4:44 pm
Identity verification firm SheerID has debuted a tool to authenticate in-store shopper IDs.
SheerID InStore, announced Thursday (March 14), allows retailers to more easily verify the eligibility of in-store customers for gated ...
- Thursday 14th March - 4:03 am
Chargebacks have long been a thorny issue for merchants. And as transactions become increasingly digitized, chargebacks have in turn become more prevalent.
They not only represent a loss of revenue but ...
- Wednesday 13th March - 3:32 pm
American lawmakers have approved a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 Wednesday (March 13) in favor of the legislation, aimed at compelling ByteDance, the Chinese owner of ...
- Thursday 7th March - 4:02 am
The payments journey, and landscape, is an ever evolving one, but one thing is certain: fraudsters will try to exploit any vulnerability they can to access money and data that ...
- Wednesday 6th March - 1:03 pm
Spain has ordered Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to cease collecting its citizens’ data.
The order Wednesday (March 6) from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) also blocks the data the project has already ...
- Wednesday 6th March - 4:00 am
More consumers than ever now rely on mobile apps to manage their daily chores.
PYMNTS Intelligence found that a growing percentage of Americans click on apps to administer their bank activity ...
- Tuesday 5th March - 9:31 pm
Argyle has raised $30 million in a funding round to fuel the continued adoption and expansion of its automated income and employment verification platform.
The company is embarking on its next phase ...
- Tuesday 5th March - 4:03 am
Jeff Hallenbeck, head of payments at Forter, noted in a recent conversation with PYMNTS that the authentication method known as three-domain secure (3DS) has had an uneven embrace by merchants across ...
- Friday 1st March - 4:03 am
Siddharth Vijayakrishnan, senior vice president of product and financial intelligence at FIS Platform and Enterprise Products, said that online authentication is a work in process — but we may never quite be free ...
- Thursday 29th February - 1:23 pm
In an era where convenience is king and security is paramount, a payment option that requires nothing more than a simple scan of one’s palm seems like the ideal solution. ...
- Thursday 29th February - 4:01 am
If payments make the world go ’round, authentication keeps it spinning.
As online interactions spread, and commerce goes digital, the critical role of authentication processes, protocols and innovations is growing more ...
- Wednesday 28th February - 4:01 am
In the world of cybersecurity, there’s no prize for being fashionably late with updates.
And in today’s evolving technology and authentication landscape, if organizations aren’t at the tip of the spear ...
- Wednesday 28th February - 4:00 am
As the payments landscape continues to advance and evolve, the central tenet of authentication remains the same.
Let the right users in and keep the fraudsters out.
“Authentication practices have been in ...
- Tuesday 27th February - 4:55 pm
Israeli identity verification firm AU10TIX has launched a know-your-business (KYB) solution.
“Increasingly rigorous regulatory demands are forcing businesses across all sectors to collect and analyze more data about the identities of their partners and vendors,” ...
- Tuesday 27th February - 12:39 pm
In today’s increasingly digital world, it has gotten to the point where the physical wallet’s main purpose is becoming just to carry physical ID cards.
But, as the rest of the ...
- Tuesday 27th February - 4:03 am
Jim McCarthy, CEO of Thredd, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that the challenge of authentication in the B2B space is decades old.
Before the advent of the internet, he said, and stretching back ...
- Tuesday 27th February - 4:02 am
Lisa McFarland, executive vice president and chief product officer at Ingo Payments, told PYMNTS that authentication across digital channels requires a multi-pronged approach.
At a high level in the digital age, ...
- Tuesday 27th February - 4:01 am
Payments increasingly exist and occur across a multifaceted, ever-evolving digital terrain.
What this means is that a digital payment is never just a payment — it is a combination of contexts ...
- Monday 26th February - 6:43 pm
VerifiNow has launched a patient identity verification solution for telehealth providers.
PatientVerifi is designed to meet the need for secure patient identity verification in virtual healthcare, the technology company focused on ...
- Monday 26th February - 4:02 am
Today’s financial fraudsters are more sophisticated, more agile, and more online than ever.
With payments increasingly moving to electronic channels — along with the gateways supporting their transfer and settlement — ...
- Monday 26th February - 4:01 am
Authentication in the payments space is continuously evolving.
But one constant is that any innovation needs to strike a winning balance between enhancing security and improving user experience.
“Identity theft, phishing and ...
- Thursday 22nd February - 11:17 am
No single word signals the death knell of an innovation quite like the adjective “clunky.”
Yet, by some accounts, that’s exactly what the user experience of the first few generations of ...
- Wednesday 21st February - 11:55 am
Fraud is a costly and common problem in payments.
In B2B payments, both of those elements are scaled up to a degree that is impossible to ignore. To a bad actor, ...
- Tuesday 20th February - 11:55 am
After a pilot program in Australia and New Zealand, Tinder will be expanding its identity verification feature to users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico.
The option ...
- Wednesday 14th February - 3:56 pm
Somos unveiled an Internet of Things identity management service designed to safeguard businesses’ IoT assets.
The new SomosID aims to provide businesses with a registry for their IoT assets, enhancing visibility ...
- Friday 9th February - 5:23 pm
The increasing attacks on educational institutions, especially in the U.S., has prompted a pressing need for robust security measures to safeguard school campuses.
In response to this sobering reality, institutions are ...
- Thursday 8th February - 11:48 am
In today’s increasingly digital payments landscape, being human is important.
The contextual and behavioral cues that power payment anomaly detection models have become focal points in the ongoing fight against fraudulent ...
- Tuesday 6th February - 4:03 am
In recent years, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has emerged as a driving force in the digital payments space, with the region’s rapid technology adoption and changing consumer behaviors positioning it ...
- Monday 5th February - 3:12 pm
Bumble is employing artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure its dating profiles aren’t, well, artificial.
“Our most recent research made one thing very clear: our members are anxious about the authenticity of their matches,” ...
- Thursday 25th January - 8:12 pm
The emergence of all-in-one apps promises unparalleled convenience, offering users a one-stop solution for various needs. From managing finances to staying connected with friends, these multifaceted applications aim to streamline ...
- Wednesday 24th January - 2:22 pm
Mastercard has launched the Mastercard Biometric Authentication Service, a solution aimed at enhancing security and convenience for consumers.
The service leverages biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition, to ...
- Tuesday 23rd January - 5:05 pm
Clerk, a developer tools company providing a React-friendly authentication solution, has secured $30 million in Series B financing to expand its services into authorization.
The funding round was led by CRV, with ...
- Thursday 18th January - 11:52 am
With more consumers looking to find bargains on groceries, Costco is trying a new, more prohibitive membership verification process.
The warehouse club giant is testing out a system whereby consumers must ...
- Thursday 18th January - 11:19 am
It’s said the whole is other than the sum of its parts, but often, it is the parts that are more interesting — and more malleable.
Human history has been defined ...
- Tuesday 16th January - 4:25 pm
The RealReal has joined EON to make it easier for luxury customers to consign their goods.
The collaboration between the luxury consignment brand and the digital ID company will see The ...
- Friday 12th January - 6:52 pm
In the payments and financial landscape, staying still often means falling behind.
And falling behind in today’s rapidly digitizing environment can be dangerous.
That’s because traditional security systems are proving to be increasingly ...
- Thursday 11th January - 9:50 am
People are getting more used to logging into their favorite apps on their smartphones using facial recognition or their fingerprints.
This includes using Apple Pay, Google Pay and other payment platforms ...
- Monday 8th January - 7:07 pm
The pandemic’s push towards online learning not only accelerated the integration of online payment platforms and cashless transactions in higher education but also catalyzed the broader transformation of the connected ...
- Monday 8th January - 12:00 pm
PYMNTS asked industry executives across the payments and digital commerce landscape to give us their take on the pivotal shifts, technological advancements and strategies that have shaped business in 2023. ...
- Friday 5th January - 11:05 am
One innovation above all others dominated the headlines in 2023: artificial intelligence (AI).
But while AI, particularly its impact on the payments landscape, captured public eyeballs and enterprise attention, other technical ...
- Thursday 4th January - 1:18 pm
Identity verification company Intellicheck has rolled out enhancements for digital users of its identity platform.
“Clients integrating the new Capture process can be up and running with no more than two simple web hooks,” the ...
- Thursday 4th January - 4:02 am
Crypto had a bumpy, and at times wild, 2023.
But industry observers and participants continue to believe that blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have the potential to revolutionize financial inclusion for marginalized and unbanked communities ...
- Thursday 4th January - 4:00 am
Global eCommerce businesses are grappling with countless challenges and opportunities in today’s digital era. Against this backdrop, building a thriving cross-border business demands a comprehensive strategy that navigates complexities while ...
- Tuesday 2nd January - 6:53 pm
Two financial industry groups say proposed consumer financial data rules don’t go far enough.
The Clearing House Association and the Bank Policy Institute submitted recommendations to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ...