The What’s New in Payments Knowledge Centre archive
An introduction to biometric authentication and fingerprint on card technology
This 34-page white paper looks at whether biometric payment cards equipped with fingerprint-on-card (FPoC) technology are the future for payments, and the success factors crucial to ensuring widespread consumer adoption.
Antelop Solutions: NFC payments, strong customer authentication and digital onboarding
This 24-page presentation provides technical information on Antelop Solutions’ portfolio of NFC payments, tokenization, strong customer authentication and digital onboarding solutions for banks and payment card issuers.
Proceedings: Wearable Payment Summit at MWC Barcelona 2019
The Wearable Payment Summit took place during MWC Barcelona 2019 and featured speakers from Barclays, Timex, Gemalto, Zwipe and Tappy Technologies. The event was moderated by Sarah Clark, editor of NFC World.
Enhancing HCE mobile payments with TEEs
This 12-page white paper reports on work underway in France to make it easier for card issuers and host card emulation (HCE) suppliers to make use of trusted execution environments (TEEs) to increase the security of their mobile payments services.
The blockchain – Not as secure as you think
The blockchain was created to be completely immutable through the use of cryptographic hash functions, Rambus explains in this 13-page ebook. “Put simply, this means that once the data is put inside the blockchain it cannot be tampered with. A safe, however, isn’t secure if someone steals the combination.”
Five reasons why ecommerce sites need a token gateway
Card-on-file payment tokenization, with its ability to replace the need to store actual card numbers with tokens that can be restricted to a specific device, merchant, transaction type or domain, offers the potential to both reduce card-not-present fraud and deliver a number of direct advantages to online merchants, Rambus explains in this 12-page paper.
What is card-on-file EMV tokenization?
Card-on-file EMV tokenization enables merchants to store payment tokens in their databases rather than a customer’s actual card number, Rambus explains in this 14-page ebook.
Biometrics in payment: Breaking down barriers with high value payments
This nine-page white paper, packed with examples and figures, makes the case for using biometric authentication built into smart payment cards to reduce fraud, raise or eliminate transaction limits, and increase financial inclusion.
Norges Bank Papers: Central Bank Digital Currencies
This 55-page document is a detailed report prepared by a working group at Norway’s central bank that sets out the aspects that should be considered in assessing whether the bank should issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC).