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Wollette unveils WollettePay

Finextra

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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Fighting Fraudsters At The FI/Customer Journey Starting Line

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Putting flexible business rules into place can be effective, too, limiting how much people can transfer out of their accounts. To attack fraud in its planning stage – indeed, at any stage of attack – Kraus advises following this golden rule: “Assume you are being attacked all the time.”. Proactive Fraud Prevention.

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US Card Skimming Grew Nearly 5x in 2022, New FICO Data Shows

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Banks can use this information to define rule sets to increase monitoring or do proactive customer outreach in case of balance inquiries, helping to head off criminal activity before it results in losses. We saw that in 2022, 58% of the attempted transactions in fraud cases were balance inquiries. Debbie holds a B.A.

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Do Consumers Own Digital ID Algorithms? Look To Illinois.

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One of the highest-profile recent cases involving the Act resulted in a victory for corporate storage and use of biometric data — though it remains too early to tell what kind of precedent that ruling will make over the long term. Google was granted a motion for summary judgement by U.S.

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Deutsche Bank Acknowledges Complexity, Confusion In PSD2 Implementation

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Separate regulations coinciding with PSD2 could also challenge FIs’ process of implementing the new rules, analysts warned. There are challenges ahead for the financial services industry when it comes to implementing PSD2, and balancing the directive with other incoming rules that address overlapping topics, like data protection.

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How COVID-19 Complicates SCA Compliance For eCommerce Players Worldwide

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The foreseeable changes stem from the already delayed strong customer authentication (SCA) regulations that are due to go into effect in Europe by the end of the year. Under the new SCA rules, merchants will need to be able to securely authenticate every customer before authorizing eCommerce transactions.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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And it’s been transparent to policymakers since 2012, when there became a source of truth called the CFPB consumer complaint database, that credit reporting agencies are one of the top three places that consumers say they consistently feel the most pain. I think we all know the answer to that question now.