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How Fremont Bank Taps Proactive Analysis To Improve User Authentication And Experience
June 18, 2021

Here’s a data point: Clunky onboarding practices cause 63 percent of digital banking applicants from completing sign-up. In the Authenticated Payments Report, Fremont Bank’s Vivian Yeung explains the role of proactively analyzing customer drop-off points to streamline onboarding.

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New Report: Why Two-Thirds Of Digital Banking Customers Abandon Sign-Up
June 17, 2021

With studies estimating that 6 billion consumers will be making transactions electronically by 2023, it is safe to say that digital is becoming the new default when it comes to payments. Many of these consumers began using digital payments for the first time over the...

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Data Brief: 79 Percent Of Businesses Rate Security Over Growth In Authentication
June 16, 2021

In the vicinity of 40 billion records were filched from social platforms last year, showing a vast downside to current online growth. It explains why PYMNTS researchers found that 43 percent of businesses intend to invest in digital authentication solutions, and almost 80 percent say...

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Hanseatic Bank Teams With Entersekt, Netcetera On ID Authentication
June 15, 2021

Hanseatic Bank, the German private bank, has unified its authentication workflows with a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) offering from Netcetera, according to a Tuesday (June 15) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. The bank will harness the same authentication processes for credit card payments on...

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PYMNTS Data Brief: 90 Pct Of Consumers Want Better Bank App Authentication Controls
June 15, 2021

We’re learning all about the digital-first consumers of 2021, especially their desire for real-time authentication control in mobile banking apps. The secret’s out — and, as is seen in the third installment of the Mobile Banking App Playbook series, a PYMNTS and Entersekt collaboration, consumers...

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Stripe Unveils New Identity Verification Tool
June 14, 2021

The eCommerce payments company Stripe has announced the launch of Stripe Identity, a tool that lets online businesses securely verify user identities. “As more economic activity happens online, the need for internet businesses to establish and maintain high levels of trust increases commensurately,” the company...

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The State Of SCA Play: Some Ready, Some Not
June 11, 2021

The revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2) is getting shifted out by six months in the U.K., while the rest of Europe has been grappling with the challenges of making online purchases more secure. Entersekt Country Manager for the U.K. and Ireland Frans Labuschagne told PYMNTS...

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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, Visa Launch eCommerce Biometrics In UAE
June 08, 2021

The first biometrics authentication solution for online transactions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is being introduced by Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) in collaboration with Visa, according to a Tuesday (June 8) press release. This new security solution taps the Visa Consumer Authentication Service...

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Deep Dive: How Behavioral Analytics Reduces Customer Friction And False Positives In Fraud Detection
June 07, 2021

Fraud prevention is a constant battle for banks, retailers and other businesses. Bad actors are ceaselessly unleashing new schemes that legacy prevention systems struggle to spot, let alone prevent, and this forces many companies to invest in frequent technology upgrades or risk being easy prey for fraudsters. A recent study found that...