M&A deal of the month: Visa buying Verifi
Within the last two weeks, the European payments industry received the (long-expected) opinion paper from the EBA concerning the delayed implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). As a reminder, the main rationale for SCA was the need to reduce fraudulent transactions in an online environment, and – because cardholders would be strongly authenticated – the number of chargebacks.

by Volker Schloenvoigt | Jul 02, 2019