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Securing The New Commerce Normal

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For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. An awful lot of other things have changed all around that core, however.

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New Data: Twice As Many Online Shoppers Believe Credit Cards Are More Secure Than Debit Cards

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One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards. PYMNTS’ latest research report, Online Security And The Debit-Credit Divide , a PYMNTS collaboration with Elan based on a survey of 2,466 U.S. The report finds that 45 percent of U.S.

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How Card-On-File Is Changing Online Consumer Shopping

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When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information for each purchase. In the latest Mobile Card Services Playbook , a collaboration with Ondot , PYMNTS surveyed more than 9,500 U.S. It’s no wonder that 78.9

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Main Street SMBs, Digital AP, GoodRx’s IPO Tops This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on the financial health of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), digital accounts payable (AP), and GoodRx ’s initial public offering (IPO). . Mastercard Expands Digital Card Program To Include Instant Access, eWallet . Have A Credit Card In Your Purse? Fun, Cool, and Otherwise Interesting.

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FICO’s Take On Debit Security

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This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Card fraud is an ever-present threat.

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Secure Payments, Generation 2.0

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Enter 3-D Secure 2.0. Specification, a messaging protocol that allows consumers to be authenticated to card issuers during card-not-present transactions. That authentication can also extend to activities that are decidedly non-payment in nature, such as when an individual adds a payment card to his or her digital wallet.

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Americans Pull Back On Credit Card Borrowing

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Americans cut their credit card balances in August for the sixth consecutive month, the Federal Reserve System reported Wednesday (Oct. Revolving debt — mainly credit card debt — as reported by the central bank declined by $9.4 Economic forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg had, in the whole, predicted an increase in credit card spending.

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