Tokenization

Vetting transactions has become complicated as merchants try to juggle user experience and risk. Tokenization can remove some of that complexity, argues Andre Stoorvogel, a director at Rambus.

State Street, BNY Mellon, UBS and Credit Suisse are among the banks that have created a company to bring their idea of a utility settlement coin to life.

Payment network tokenization should sound appealing to every online retailer because it relieves friction and releases them from much of their risk, liability and compliance burden. The trick is achieving scale from both a technical and business agreement perspective, writes Ammar Faheem, vice president of digital payment solutions for North America at Gemalto, a Thales company.

Visa's tokenization began as a way to shield digital commerce and has developed into a major catalyst for Visa in landing partnerships.

Norwegian digital payments provider MeaWallet is offering a new payment tokenization solution that delivers Mastercard, Visa and American Express tokenization services through a single connection.

As bankers' skepticism about blockchain deepens, crypto firms should demonstrate how the technology can help financial companies, such as by extending access to the underbanked, says Hinkes, a prominent advocate of blockchain.

Online retailers must accept hacking, malware and phishing as a reality of doing business in our digital world, but tokenization can make the prize less worthy for crooks, according to André Stoorvogel, director of product marketing for Rambus Payments.

Transaction Network Services has entered a partnership with cloud-based mobile commerce provider P97 to provide a managed tokenization service for mobile and in-vehicle payments.

With real-time payments advancing, processors need to shore up security, according to David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

If cryptocurrency is ever going to become a viable payment option, it has to have bank-grade security — and bank support.

Visa is expanding its Visa Token Service commercially with 20 acquirer/gateway partners it feels can immediately add scale for using interoperable Visa tokens in addition to the partners' own as credential-on-file token requestors.

To remain competitive, retailers must always have one eye on the future. Mobile wallets offer a strategic platform for retailers to harness and promote emerging payment models, writes Julian Wallis, retail director at Rambus.

Card-on-file tokenization systems enable payment details to be instantly refreshed when a card is lost, stolen or expires, according to André Stoorvogel a director at Rambus.

New Merchant Advisory Group chief John Drechny will push open standards for payments acceptance and security technology that doesn't impact customer experience.

Tokenization as a technology is suitable to support multiple payment use cases via a single system, ensuring emerging commercial models and the ability to adapt to new requirements are not constrained by an inflexible security framework, writes David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

Regalii has changed its name to arcus and switched from cross-border bill payment to helping banks use tokenization to reissue lost, stolen or breached cards.

When EMV chip cards were launched in the U.S., the initial fear in the security and payment industries was that fraud would migrate to e-commerce. But the migration has actually moved further along to the more lucrative venue of real-time Fed-mandated ACH payments.

PCI compliance can't solve all security problems. EMV, encryption are all necessary to protect merchants from data breaches, writes Jeff Zimmerman, COO of Clearent.

Many of the same protections for mobile payments, such as tokenization and single-use keys, can come into play to protect in-car payments, according to Jim Carroll, chief technology officer at Mobica.

FitPay's wallet and digital payment platform, which will integrate with the tokenization platform, enables manufacturers of IoT and wearable devices to add contactless payment capabilities to their products.