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How Digital Will Change Brick-and-Mortar In 2019

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Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate.

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Why Mobile Phones Are The Better Consumer Authentication Mousetrap

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At this point in 2019, we’ve all dealt with some flavor of two-factor authentication that uses SMS one-time passcodes. It’s a mild piece of friction, but it’s not terribly onerous and is doing something useful: keeping consumers safe. Unless, of course, it isn’t. In a word, Prideaux noted, the problem is fragmentation. “If

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PAAY Partners With Bluefin To Further Secure eCommerce Transactions

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New York-headquartered PAAY, a consumer authentication innovator co-founded in 2011 by James Ruffer and Yitz Mendlowitz, has a new security solution that aims to obliterate hacking and fraud threats. Cyberattacks have jumped 273 percent in the first quarter of this year over the same period in 2019.

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Do Consumers Own Digital ID Algorithms? Look To Illinois.

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Biometrics promise to take a larger role in authentication security in 2019, helping to stop online fraud and bringing speed, efficiency and security to transactions ranging from QSR mobile-order ahead to airport car rentals. In fact, the Wendy’s fast food chain was recently hit with such a suit in Illinois.

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Wells Fargo: First Impressions Are Key When It Comes To Digital Onboarding

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Many of these consumers are exploring digital banking for the first time, however, and are frustrated by customer onboarding pain points. Time-consuming authentication methods, redundant application forms and sluggish processes can all drive away potential customers. Developments From Around the Digital-First Banking World.

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Fraud Decisioning Orchestrates A Response

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Bad people love Wawa , too – mostly for its large database of consumer information. In they went, stealing details of 30 million cards before the malware was discovered in December of 2019. So very tasty. It had apparently been running undetected for 10 months. card number.

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AML/KYC Fast-Tracked In Open Banking Boom

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In PYMNTS’ most recent Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic series, based on surveys of thousands of consumers and businesses over the duration, nearly 34 percent of respondents said they are “very” or “extremely” likely to consider a firm’s digital offerings when deciding where to spend their money. percent ‘less likely to be compromised.’

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