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The Future of Payments in 2025: Smarter, Secure, and Seamless
The Future of Payments in 2025: Smarter, Secure, and Seamless The payments landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by increasing internet connectivity, digitally native consumers, and innovative commerce models like mobile and social commerce. Today’s shoppers expect...
How Embedded Payments Are Changing the Way We Pay and Do Business
How Embedded Payments Are Changing the Way We Pay and Do Business Embedded payments have already changed what customers expect when it comes to paying for goods and services. Because paying has become so easy in many situations, people are starting to behave...
Enhancing Payment Security in a Digital World
Enhancing Payment Security in a Digital World In the realm of financial transactions, the fusion of payments and security mechanisms has become increasingly intertwined, paving the way for enhanced interoperability within systems. Payment technology firms, in...
Revolutionizing Global Transactions: Mastercard Unveils Move Commercial Payments Solution
In the fast-paced world of global finance, efficiency and transparency are paramount. Mastercard, a leader in innovative financial solutions, has once again stepped into the spotlight with their latest offering – the Mastercard Move Commercial Payments product. Here's...
Visa Updates: Updates to Visa Secure Data Field Mandate (January 2024)
Visa has updated the Visa Secure data field mandate, originally announced in the 31 August 2023 edition of the Visa Business News. The effective date for these changes has been extended to 12 August 2024, and the number of required data fields has been reduced. Visa...
What NGOs and Charities need to know when considering Online Fundraising
In Hong Kong, holding public fundraising activities in public places(1) require prior application and approval from the Social Welfare Department, such as flag day or street charity sales. If the time of e-flag selling is close to the approved flag-selling day, or has...
3DS 2.0 – Have you Upgraded yet? Upgrade before October 2022
3DS1 will be discontinued by payment networks from October 2022, and have mandated the ecosystem to upgrade to 3DS2. Please see below deadlines to ensure you have updated 3DS to avoid disruption: American Express - 14 October 2022 Discover / Diners - 14 October 2022...
Visa’s Latest Dispute Rule Updates: Evolution of Compelling Evidence
Compelling Evidence: Visa’s Latest Dispute Rule Updates and the Evolution. Effective from 15 April 2023, Visa will implement new standardisation of data to enhance chargeback processing. This update particularly covers card-not-present (CNP) chargebacks regarding the...
3-D Secure 2.0 is here
While the original 3-D Secure protocol was developed more than 15 years ago to mitigate fraud in ecommerce transactions, the acceleration of ecommerce in recent years calls for greater payment security as fraudsters also turn to digital. 3-D Secure 2.0 addresses the...
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Acqra Limited
Payment facilitator of Visa & Mastercard
