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November 19, 2013
The Top Mobile Authentication Method Revealed

Online and mobile commerce continue to be beset by issues relating to authentication, despite a variety of exciting solutions on the market. With so many options, how can businesses ensure...


June 30, 2013
Twenty-Two Banks and One Secure Cloud

How’s this for a breaking development in the world of mobile payments? The Clearing House will announce today that it will launch and operate an open platform that will make...


June 08, 2013
Study: Data Breaches Lead To 50 Percent Of U.S. Consumer...

Data breaches led to over 50 percent of all U.S. consumer fraud victims in 2012, according to a Javelin Strategy & Research report. The Open Security Foundation reported that an...


April 28, 2013
NAFCU Pushes Senate On Consumer Data Protection

The National Association of Federal Credit Unions has pushed the Senate to adopt data security legislation aimed at protecting the personal information of consumers, according to BankCreditNews.com. “NAFCU hopes to...


March 12, 2013
Genesco Sues Visa In Data Breach Case

U.S. retailer Genesco is suing Visa over a 2010 data breaching case from which it lost around $17 million in penalties, reports Finextra. Genesco filed the complaint in Tennessee last...


January 21, 2013
Mobile Security: The Downside Of The mPayments Revolution

Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular as consumers have come to expect and demand multi-channel banking experiences, flexibility and accessibility from their smartphones and tablets. Mobile wallets provide unique experiences...


January 16, 2013
UK Businesses Not Prepared For Cyber Crime

A recent survey conducted by Swivel Secure has found that British businesses have a sloppy attitude to cyber security. According to the research, more than half of all business owners...


January 08, 2013
Mobile Payments Struggling In Sweden

Sweden has a very high percentage of smartphone penetration (67%) and a great attitude towards cashless payment methods . Nonetheless Swedes do not seem ready to move to mobile money....


December 09, 2012
Protecting Small Merchants: What You Need To Know About Security

Security is not just for merchants and card users to take care of; central government at both the national and European level as well as the payments industry should step...


Authenticated Payments
Single Sign-On Bridges The Authentication Gap Customer authentication walks a tightrope between seamlessness and security, but single sign-on (SSO) systems can bridge this gap using a single password administered by third parties like Facebook or Google. In this month’s “Authenticated Payments Report,” a PYMNTS and LoginID collaboration, Clay McDaniel, CEO of Ripl, outlines how SSO solutions can safeguard the payments process while sparing users from managing countless usernames and passwords.