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November 14, 2023
Worldline Offers Tap to Pay For Merchants in France

Worldline says its large merchant clients in France can now offer Apple’s tap-to-pay. The payments firm announced Tuesday (Nov. 14) that merchants can use the iPhone-based payment method to collect payments via...


November 14, 2023
Mastercard Launches Biometric Payments Partnership With NEC

Mastercard has teamed with NEC to bring biometric checkout to the Asia Pacific region. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 14), combines NEC’s facial recognition and liveness verification technology with Mastercard’s payment operations, and comes as...


November 09, 2023
Gen X Leads Mobile Adoption for Grocery Purchases

Despite not being digital natives, Generation X is leading the way for mobile payments, surpassing the other generations in how often this method is used in grocery and non-grocery purchases. More...


October 31, 2023
The Road to Customer Loyalty Runs Through Call Center Security

For every trusted resource, there is a bad actor trying to take advantage of it. And that is the catch-22 of call centers. The pivotal role they play across various...


October 27, 2023
Companies Need to Be ‘Adaptive’ and ‘Curious’ in 2024 as...

Kathryn McCall, chief legal and compliance officer at Trustly, said that as 2023 gives way to 2024, there are a few simple truths governing payments. With the continued emergence of...


October 26, 2023
‘What’s Next’ for Payments in 2024 and Beyond? Citi Says...

With 2024 right around the corner, Vineeth Subramanyam, managing director and global head of Spring by Citi, told Karen Webster that the unstoppable push toward personalization and automation in payments will take...


October 26, 2023
Link Money CEO: Payment Innovations Win on Cost, Not Capability

Innovations in payments have paved the path to progress throughout history. And while the journey has not been a linear one, it is increasingly becoming a digital one. “The technology...


October 25, 2023
What’s Next in Payments Security: White Hats vs Black Hats,...

Jeff Hallenbeck, head of financial partnerships at Forter, told PYMNTS that as 2024 dawns, artificial intelligence (AI) will be a technological tool increasingly leveraged by fraudsters — and a tool...


October 23, 2023
Socure Launches Tool and Financial Consortium to Fight First-Party Fraud

Socure has launched its first-party fraud solution, Sigma First-Party Fraud, along with the First-Party Fraud Consortium (FPFC). Together, these solutions aim to help companies detect and prevent first-party fraud, the provider of...


Digital Identity: Ditching Passwords Could Unlock A $59 Billion Biometrics Market
Ditching Passwords Could Unlock a $59 Billion Biometrics Market The findings come from this month’s Digital Identity Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Prove collaboration, which examined how advanced verification tech is not only boosting security but also giving 58% of consumers what they want — faster and more convenient biometric authentication.
Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile
51% of Online Buyers Used Biometrics Instead of Passwords Biometric authentication, once just a sci-fi trope, has become so common that most consumers who shopped online used biometrics to validate their purchase. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 3,278 U.S. consumers explores why so many users like biometrics — and what it will take to win over the half who are holdouts. Read more in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile,” a collaboration with AWS.