Many merchants both within and outside of Europe are concerned with meeting Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA) requirements and how this might impact sales when nearly every eCommerce order over €30 will require two-factor authentication. A lesser known fact is that this order value threshold for requiring SCA increases in multiple tiers based on the fraud
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To maintain compliance with the European Union’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), merchants in Europe will have to perform Secure Consumer Authentication on most non-recurring transactions greater than €30 within the European Economic Area (EAA) starting September 14th. Secure Consumer Authentication, or SCA, refers to consumer authentication services with two factor authentication facilitated by a
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At the end of March, MasterCard announced they had entered into an agreement to acquire NuData Security, the behavioral biometric and behavioral monitoring vendor based in Vancouver, Canada, for an undisclosed amount. A pioneer in the behavioral monitoring space, NuData offers MasterCard valuable technology and patents related to performing authentication covertly across all types of
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The Fraud Practice and CardinalCommerce launched of the 4th Annual Consumer Authentication Survey this week, extending an open invitation for all eCommerce and multi-channel merchants, acquirers, card issuers, payment service and fraud solution providers to take the survey and provide feedback that can help shape the industry. Take the 4th Annual Consumer Authentication Survey today
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In the beginning of 2015 EMVCo announced they would be responsible for further developing the 3-Domain Secure 2.0 Specification, taking over for Visa and MasterCard. Now just a few months before the expected release of 3DS 2.0, EMVCo and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council jointly announced they will be collaborating to support
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MasterCard released their Identity Check app in early October, which is now available in 12 countries across Europe and set to be released globally in 2017. While this app has gotten the most attention for it’s ‘selfie pay’ feature, supporting the use of facial recognition in place of a password, it additionally supports fingerprint biometrics
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A recent study cataloging prices across English- and Russian-language fraudster forums examined 320 purchases for stolen payment, identity and log-in information earning hackers between $1 million and $2 million, while the fraudsters using this information from less than half of these transactions were able to steal between $1.7 million and $3.4 million. These estimates
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Sarasota, FL, March 15, 2016 / The Fraud Practice, Inc. The Fraud Practice and CardinalCommerce have released the third annual Use of Consumer Authentication in eCommerce white paper, detailing the results of the 2016 Consumer Authentication Survey. Tara Lavelle, VP of Marketing at CardinalCommerce, and Justin McDonald, Sr. Risk Management Consultant with The Fraud Practice,
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MasterCard showcased their new Identity Check product at the Mobile World Congress in late February, announcing that after successful trials they will be rolling it out this summer in North America and across much of Europe. Identity Check is an application consumers will be able to download onto their mobile devices, tablets and PCs that
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Take the survey today to be entered in up to 5 drawings to win a new Apple Watch Sport™. The earlier you take the survey the more chances you have to win as a new drawing will be held each week. The Fraud Practice and CardinalCommerce are proud to announce that the 3rd Annual Consumer Authentication Survey
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