
Navigating The Challenges Of Cryptocurrency Payment Acceptance
Alternative Payments Tracker®
While cryptocurrency payments are rapidly gaining traction, accepting crypto comes with a variety of issues, such as long processing times and the risk of fraud. In this month’s “Alternative Payments Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Socure collaboration, CEO and co-founder Juan Otero, of travel booking platform Travala, discusses how efficient and secure onboarding can take the sting out of accepting cryptocurrencies.
Inside the January/February Tracker
- An interview with Juan Otero, CEO and co-founder of online travel booking platform Travala, on the impact of cryptocurrency payments on the travel space and why secure onboarding is a necessity
- The latest alternative payments developments, including how fraudsters have stolen more than $12.1 billion in cryptocurrency assets since 2011 and why cybercriminals will likely leverage stolen identities to attack businesses and payment providers in greater numbers than they have in the past
- A Deep Dive analyzing how fraudsters attempt to scam cryptocurrency owners and merchants that accept it and how user authentication can keep fraud at a minimum