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Delivering Strong Customer Authentication to support PSD2 Compliance
A new Whitepaper states that the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will undoubtedly facilitate innovation, competition, and efficiency among banks...
Data Threat Report – Trends in Encryption and Data Security
In Europe, as in the rest of the world, reports of major security breaches continue unabated, despite global efforts to...
Cryptocurrencies take a major fall in light of US futures investigation
Cryptocurrencies have slid to a two-month low following reports that US regulators had asked cryptocurrency exchanges to provide trading data...
US banking market on the road to consolidation of its 5,600 banks
The US banking industry has largely sat out the M&A wave of recent years. While deal records have fallen in...
Smart Payments Association position on the RTS on SCA
On 13 March 2018, the regulatory technical standard (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) was finally published in the Official...
Main UK payment systems effectively privatised to one person
As of May 1st, there has been a new operator of the UK’s two most important retail payment schemes. New...
Is the Payments Industry ready for new PCI-DSS
On June 30th 2018, new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requirements (PCI-DSS) go into effect. This means that payment card acquirers,...
A challenging time for time challenger banks
Challenger banks were hailed by politicians as the way to break the stranglehold of the UK’s big four high street...