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Here’s Everything That Happened Singapore Fintech Festival 2024 in 10 Key Highlights

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Visa unveils suite of new products and services Visa announced a suite of new products and services aimed at transforming the future of payments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region: Visa Flexible Credential allows a single card to switch between various payment options, such as debit, credit, installment payments, or rewards redemption.

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Mastercard Replaces OTPs with Biometrics for Secure Online Checkouts in APAC

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This service allows consumers to authenticate online payments using biometrics like fingerprints or facial scans, similar to unlocking a smartphone. The Mastercard Payment Passkey Service combines tokenisation, Click to Pay, and biometric authentication to offer a seamless and secure checkout experience.

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Mastercard Goes OTP-Free in APAC for Faster, Safer Online Transactions

Fintech Finance

As payments become more intricate, Mastercard today announced the latest enhancement to its new Mastercard Payment Passkey Service which enables secure, on-device biometric authentication through facial scans or fingerprints, the same way consumers unlock their phones every day.

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Fingerprints’ Sensor Empowers Infineon’s SECORA Pay Bio Solution to Enhance Convenience and Trust of Contactless Biometric Payments

Fintech Finance

The solution uses the fingerprint credentials securely stored on the card as a second authentication factor, enabling a convenient and trusted contactless payment experience. The innovative SECORA Pay Bio enrollment sheet makes fingerprint enrollment via smartphone easier than ever before.

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Data Blizzard Hits LA Schools: Students data stolen in Snowflake Hack

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The breach, linked to a hack of the district’s Snowflake account, has exposed sensitive data pertaining to students and employees enrolled in the sprawling district. Snowflake is a cloud database platform used by companies worldwide to store their data.

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Mastercard and KaiOS Partner to Simplify Acceptance for Millions of SMEs in Emerging Markets

Fintech Finance

Business owners can use their KaiOS-powered phone to enroll. After entering their registered credentials and authenticating via a one-time password, SMEs can then access and immediately use a variety of digital payment options. Signing up is simple.

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Confirming Identity, An Art And Science

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Data breaches are so commonplace, might we have become immune to the news of more credentials hacked, more identities stolen? Initial enrollments may happen online, added the executive, where regulatory hurdles must be leapt, for identity verification, at the front end. Where does that traditional credential come from?