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In Europe, Building The ‘Bridge’ Between eCommerce Merchants And Traditional Banks

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As for compliance efforts — and particularly with PSD2 — the hurdle for online merchants and their banks has been the compressed timeframe to comply with new data rules and technical implementations.

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Why Mobile Payments Are Taking Off In China

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Choudhury also predicts secure voice authentication, or a voice print, will become more prevalent as a biometric safeguard. This technology reads a consumer’s voice patterns to authenticate transactions. Choudhury said Qualcomm has spoken with various payments partners about building multifactor authentication into smartphone devices.

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How The U.S. Government Sets The Benchmark For Digital ID Standards

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“NSTIC called out the national need to eliminate PINs and passwords as single authentication factors and to use multifactor authentication for stronger [verification],” Temoshok explained. “It People will go around them, whether that’s password composition rules or multifactor authentication.”.

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New York Bolsters Cybersecurity Requirements

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Technical Controls The Amendments introduce a number of heightened technical controls, including: Multifactor Authentication: With only very limited exceptions, multifactor authentication (MFA) is now required for “any individual” accessing “any information system” of a covered entity.

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myTU launches ‘Payouts API’ to Streamline Payment Processing for Businesses

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MyTU implements advanced security through custom multifactor authentication, which integrates multiple ECDSA keys with IP and DNS data verification, and utilizes secure timestamps alongside bidirectional out-of-band communication, to ensure the highest standard of security and compliance.

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GDPR & PSD2: A Silver Lining For Fraudsters?

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Many merchants are reporting that they have yet to even think about how they will respond to the new rules. Some are playing the wait-and-see game, keeping an eye on others in the space for ideas; others are gambling with which rules to follow and which to ignore until the consequences of non-compliance become more clear.

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PSD2 Smiles On Biometrics — And Other Tales From The New World

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PSD2 sets out the requirements for SCA, an identity verification procedure that leverages multifactor authentication. Amid those fresh concerns about readiness and how laggards might impact PSD2 goals, there are recent questions about whether the payment rules contradict the GDPR. SCA pulls in factors such as ownership (i.e.,