Payments using biometrics, are financial organisations ready?
Blog, Uncategorized

Payments using biometrics, are financial organisations ready?

Biometrics has largely been hailed as the future of consumer identification, authentication, and confirmation of transactions. Though in South Africa, Mastercard has been trialling a chip and PIN bankcard that includes a fingerprint reader, to date the technology has largely not appeared in Point of Sale (POS) devices or in more traditional payment areas.   […]

New acquirer responsibilities - Strong customer authentication under forthcoming EU legislation
Articles, Blog

New acquirer responsibilities – Strong customer authentication under forthcoming EU legislation

By Natasja Bolton, Acquirer Support Manager In our December Ecommerce article we discussed the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) new guidelines for the security of internet payments and the possibility that, with the need to enhance protection of consumers against online payment fraud, presenting Payment Service Provider (PSP) hosted payment pages in iFrames may no longer be acceptable. […]