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European Banking Authority Offers Relief On SCA, PSD2 Rules
Regulation // June 23, 2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published an opinion on strong customer authentication (SCA) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), acknowledging that implementing the new standards might be difficult for some merchants. Businesses and banks have expressed their concerns over the EBA’s new standards that...

Why Contextual Commerce Is The Next Big Thing
Merchant Innovation // April 04, 2016

In January of this year, I wrote a piece in which I said there were six things that would shape the direction of payments and commerce in 2016. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.” I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that...

Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail
Payments Innovation // March 14, 2016

Pay attention now because this is going to be absolutely, positively revolutionary. And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. What is it you ask? Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering...

Shaw’s Follows Dangerous Path In Shift Away From Loyalty
Commentary // April 16, 2014

Shaw’s Supermarket here in Boston made a little bit of news in the run-up to the 4th of July holiday. It’s dumping its loyalty card program. Well to be technical, Albertson’s - the Idaho-based North American grocery chain that owns them – decided that all...

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European Banking Authority Offers Relief On SCA, PSD2 Rules

June 23, 2019
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published an opinion on strong customer authentication (SCA) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), acknowledging that implementing the new standards might be difficult for some merchants. Businesses and banks have expressed their concerns over the EBA’s new standards that require “strong customer authentication” for all electronic payments over €10 […]