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Meeting The New Challenge Of Rolling Out PSD2 And SCA

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That’s because, in the long run, PSD2 and SCA will strengthen and secure an eCommerce economy that is getting much bigger and much faster than anyone’s previous timetable indicated. The important thing here to understand is that to make good transaction risk analysis models, we need to get better data and build better models.

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Whitepages Pro On PSD2’s Roadmap To September

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McLain told PYMNTS that his own firm encourages companies to leverage relationships with the companies in the payments ecosystem that are closer to the regulations and instrumental in shaping them. The biggest shift under PSD2 will be tied to transaction risk analysis.

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How COVID-19 Complicates SCA Compliance For eCommerce Players Worldwide

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The world of payments processing will be a very different place by the end of 2020 than it was at the beginning — one where securing transactions will take on a new priority for merchants and consumers alike. Firms like Braintree, Chase, Moneris and BlueSnap are already leveraging Kount’s fraud prevention tools.

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Growing Ratings Data Overwhelms Regulators

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securities regulator is having trouble with rating agencies because it doesn’t have the tools or specific knowledge it needs to analyze huge amounts of rating data, according to a report from Reuters. Those entities and their elevated ratings of mortgage-backed securities, analysts say, were gasoline for the U.S. housing bubble fire.

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EMVCo Updates Payment Tokenization Specs

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The global technical body that facilitates the worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions has upgraded its specs. Our work to establish a secure and scalable payment tokenization ecosystem is no different.

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Emailage Rides Out Post-Holiday Rush In Q1

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Startup Emailage , which leverages customers’ email addresses to identify and prevent eCommerce fraud, had a solid game plan going into November and December, helping its customers fine-tune their systems and prepare for the anticipated fraud barrage that would be hitting retailers during the busy shopping season.

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US B2B Startups Dominate $337 Million Worth Of Funding

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Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna Security. Its platform provides proprietary cyber-risk analysis technology to corporate customers. Back-Office.