Strong Customer Authentication and eCommerce: How to (properly) prepare your business

Strong customer-authentication for ecommerce
Published: Jul 24, 2019 | Updated: Aug 29, 2019 by ContactPigeon in Ecommerce

Last year’s implementation of GDPR was not the end of changes in terms of EU regulations influencing the eCommerce landscape. The second Payment Services Directive or (PSD2) is a new EU directive that means changes in the customer verification process for online transactions. These requirements, Strong Customer Authentication for eCommerce, or SCA, go into effect on September 14th, 2019. How ready is your business to implement these new regulations of robust customer authentication? Don’t fret. We’ve created this article to help you prepare your online business to comply with SCA requirements.  What is strong customer authentication psd2? PSD2 aims at

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The Complete GDPR eCommerce Checklist

The GDPR eCommerce Checklist
Published: Mar 27, 2018 | Updated: Aug 30, 2019 by ContactPigeon in Ecommerce

The most important and sweeping change in digital privacy regulation in the world will come into effect on May 25th of this year in the EU. We’ve already published a GDPR FAQ to help you understand it but we also decided to also release a GPDR eCommerce checklist to get your back covered. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR for short) is transforming the way we treat digital data and affecting practically any website or organization that collects, stores and uses customer data. This includes a majority of eCommerce stores, as GDPR applies not only to European organizations but to

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