In Europe, digital retail payments were to be become more secure and less susceptible to fraud with the introduction of SCA. Yet a new standard for competition is being set for payment service providers to create SCA payment flows with minimal friction. Read More
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Keeping a Close Eye on the SCA Regulations Influencing the Global Payments Industry
The EU has set the stage with its SCA (Strong Consumer Authentication) regulations designed to make digital payments more secure. The goal of this implementation is to increase the level of security surrounding electronic payments that benefit both consumers and merchants, but is the end result meeting the objective? Read More
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Processing Through Acquirers with Lower Fraud Rates Reduces the Need for SCA Under PSD2
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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Will Enforcement of SCA in Europe be Pushed Back Again?
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently suggested that milestones related to ensuring Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA) compliance by March 31, 2021 may need to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Banking Authority (EBA) has maintained their December 31, 2020 deadline but will continue to monitor the events and reassess. Read More
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Secure Consumer Authentication (SCA) Required for Intra-European eCommerce Beginning September
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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