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Are Biometrics the Future of Payments Authentication?
Are Biometrics the Future of Payments Authentication? Could a fingerprint or iris scan be the answer to consumer password fatigue? Perhaps. In China, several face-detecting technologies are being...
Contactless Payments Reboot: Get Ready, Get Set
Contactless Payments Reboot: Get Ready, Get Set The time has come for community bank card issuers to begin ramping up their contactless payments strategy. More than half of the top 100 U.S....
Are You Leveraging Your Card’s Core Benefits?
Are You Leveraging Your Card’s Core Benefits? ICBA Bancard’s Senior Vice President of Card and Payment Products, Julie Hanson, says that many times when she is discussing debit and credit card...
Visa Examines Digital Trends and Consumer Expectations
Visa Examines Digital Trends and Consumer Expectations A Visa study examines how digital trends are reinventing consumer expectations. This shift in the ecosystem is driven by universal...
How to Create a Successful Fintech Partnership
How to Create a Successful Fintech Partnership As more community banks look for ways to deliver innovative solutions to their customers, they will most likely have to find ways to work with...
A Eulogy for the Static Password
A Eulogy for the Static Password Last month, Visa eliminated the use of static passwords for its Verified by Visa cardholder authentication service. Static passwords were once thought to be an easy...
Community Bankers Raise $10K With Charitable Giving Platform
Community Bankers Raise $10K With Charitable Giving Platform Community bankers raised more than $10,000 for the youth non-profit Project 150 with ICBA Bancard’s new charitable giving platform,...
3-D SECURE 2.0 FAQs
3-D SECURE 2.0 FAQs Q: What is authentication? A: It is a way to gain better assurance that the genuine customer is using his or her card online. The authentication outcome is added to the...
What Merchants Are Looking For In 2018
What Merchants Are Looking For In 2018 Innovations in online, mobile, and social technologies have created a revolution in merchant services that is intensifying competition between merchant...
3DS 2.0 Authentication Is Coming!
3DS 2.0 Authentication Is Coming! In September, ICBA Bancard partnered with CardinalCommerce to implement a powerful 3-D Secure, 2.0 authentication solution for community bank clients that...
Next Gen Security: 3-D Secure 2.0
Next Gen Security: 3-D Secure 2.0 According to the U.S. Payments Forum’s 2017 summer market snapshot, 45 to 50 percent of all U.S. credit and debit transactions are now chip-on-chip. Accordingly,...
ICBA Bancard Is Your On-ramp for Faster Payments
ICBA Bancard Is Your On-ramp for Faster Payments The evolutionary process of payments in banking has always required early adopters and innovators with the courage to advance to that next point of...
Three New Details Every Community Banker Needs to Know about Faster Payments
Three New Details Every Community Banker Needs to Know about Faster Payments When it comes to the future of faster payments in the U.S., it’s a marathon, not a sprint. From the 2015 issuance of...
Protecting the Loyals
Protecting the Loyals Loyalty programs are a tremendous customer retention tool, but in recent years have become a target for cyber criminals who are hacking into consumer accounts and siphoning...
Serving the Underserved in the Era of Mobile
Serving the Underserved in the Era of Mobile Mobile platforms for prepaid cards and omni-channel merchant capture are just a few of the innovative technologies community banks can leverage to...
You Don't Have to Fall Short with Fall Back
You Don't Have to Fall Short with Fall Back Fallback transactions are a natural side effect of EMV adoption and occur when a chip card cannot be read by a chip-enabled terminal for any number of...
Consumer Authentication Grows Up – 3D Secure 2.0
Consumer Authentication Grows Up – 3D Secure 2.0 For nearly two decades, issuers, merchants and acquirers have been forced to rely on imperfect technology in an effort to protect themselves in the...
Are You Ready to Get Enabled?
Are You Ready to Get Enabled? A March 2016 study, titled “What’s in Your Mobile Wallet?”, by Javelin Research reported that the proximity payments market is projected to reach $54 billion by 2019...
Three Ways Receive-Only Instant Payments Meet Customer Needs
The countdown is on. FedNow goes live in just a few months, and its looming launch creates a sense of urgency around the execution of instant payments.
Where Does Your Community Bank Fall on the Digital Payments Spectrum?
Where Does Your Community Bank Fall on the Digital Payments Spectrum? Payments Executive Brief Issue 1 For a printable PDF of this issue, click here. By Tina Giorgio Use the ICBA Bancard Digital...