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Wollette unveils WollettePay

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Highlights Contactless tap, familiar ease Consumers pay instantly from their bank accounts without redirects or entering card details. Strong Consumer Authentication Each transaction is securely authorized via biometric authentication, with tokenisation and encryption protecting all payment data.

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Is No-Factor Authentication Digital Security’s Future?

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So before we add another layer of authentication , we should ask, is this actually going to serve a purpose or solve our problem?”. What is necessary, said Xie, is a different, more holistic paradigm for fighting fraud – with a broad goal of not adding more authentication steps, but fewer. The Zero-Authentication Future.

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PAAY Partners With Bluefin To Further Secure eCommerce Transactions

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PAAY provides strong authentication at the front door and Bluefin encrypts and tokenizes the data at the point of interaction on the web. New York-headquartered PAAY, a consumer authentication innovator co-founded in 2011 by James Ruffer and Yitz Mendlowitz, has a new security solution that aims to obliterate hacking and fraud threats.

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Why ZenKey Authentication Is A Good Idea – With A Big Design Flaw

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Five years ago, a merchant might have been able to rely on consumers being patient with a digital commerce experience that was less than perfectly smooth. This means authenticating a consumer has turned into something of a tricky and delicate process. Building a More Zen Authentication Experience .

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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He said increased sharing of account information through third-party apps supports consumers’ desires, but it is not without its risks. This provides consumers increased transparency and control over their payments, eliminating unintended overdrafts, and reducing fraud.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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Nowhere is this outrage more deafening than the halls of Congress , where member after member now demands that executive heads at Equifax be placed on chopping blocks and massive regulatory changes across the credit reporting industry be made. Here’s a funny example that sets up an exchange between two business executives on an airplane.

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As PSD2 Gets Off the Ground, Fraudsters Gear Up

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PSD2 is bringing higher transaction volume for banks, and more demand from consumers for mobile payments and quicker transactions. Criminals are always on the hunt for new opportunity. How exactly fraud attacks and fraud prevention will change in the post-PSD2 world remains unclear, but change is certain, according to observers.