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Forrester Consulting: Managing risk in the age of digital transformation 

Portrait of Visa's Chief risk officer Paul Fabara.
Security

Visa Views: Payment security predictions for 2020 and beyond 

Illustration of a smartphone, a smartwatch, and a contactless Visa credit card all connecting through a padlock to a POS terminal and website.
Security

Forrester Report: Understanding the Evolving Payments Landscape 

Infographic of Visa chip cards stats for September 2019. EMV chip cards and chip-activated merchants combat counterfeit fraud in the U.S.
Security

Chip technology helped reduce card-present counterfeit payment fraud by 81 percent 

Margaret Reid Risk officer North America.
Security

Tap to Pay: Five surprising facts about contactless security 

Visa’s vice chairman and chief risk officer, Ellen Richey.
Security

Visa Views: Looking ahead at payment security 

Dr. Sunpreet Arora, Staff Research Scientist, Applied Authentication Lab, Visa.
SECURITY

Could a fake finger spoof your smartphone? Five facts about biometrics 

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SECURITY

Digital tokens keep hackers at bay 

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Security

Merchants and issuers can now benefit from 3-D Secure 2.0 

Visa’s Tia Ilori, senior director of global fraud and breach investigations shares 5 quick tips on how to prevent data breaches.
Security

Tia’s top 5 tips for data security 

A stylized composite image of a fingerprint amidst binary code.
New Security Report

Biometrics in payments 

Finger print. The ridges come in contact with some plates, changing the circuit’s electric charge.
Visa Security

Consumers ready for biometrics 

A female reporter interviewing another woman on the street.
Chip Cards

One year in: What’s the consumer take on chip? 

Person holding a Visa credit card in front of a payment terminal displaying the contactless symbol and credit card logos.
Security

Working together to strengthen security 

speeding up chip card payments
Visa & Index

Speeding up chip card payments 

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QUICK CHIP FOR EMV

Paying with chip gets a speed boost 

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Security

Outsmarting fraudsters with advanced analytics 

Illustration of a hand holding a phone displaying customization options for managing a Visa card.
Security

Putting consumers in charge of security 

mobile ecommerce payments
Online authentication 2.0

Improving security in e-commerce 

Cashier preparing to slide a customer's credit card at a payment terminal.
Chip Cards

The cost of PIN 

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Visa Transaction Advisor

Reducing fraud at the gas pump 

Customer removes card from chip reader in payment terminal.
Visa Security

EMV chip—faster than a NY minute 

Preventing fraud with digital authentication
Security

Preventing fraud with digital authentication 

Close up of a woman with red fingernails using a mobile phone
MOBILE

How to LOK down your digital wallet 

cable cords
VisaNet

Visa knows how to weather the storm 

Close up of a Visa chip illustration with a stopwatch in the middle.
Visa Quick Chip

It’s all about the pre-dip! 

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EMV chip update

EMV at the pump 

Visa Cardinal Commerce logo and woman using tablet.
Visa acquires CardinalCommerce

Leader in digital authentication 

Brookstone quick chip technology
Chip technology

Brookstone adopts Visa Quick Chip in the U.S. 

Woman using Apple Pay at checkout.
FRAUD PREVENTION

Payment security in multiple layers 

An illustration contrasts old and new ways to pay and depicts how 3-D Secure 2.0 offers better and stronger fraud-detection intelligence.
Security

Meet the future of digital payment security 

Man on city street using a smart phone with biometric symbols for voice analysis, iris recognition, behavior patterns, and fingerprint recognition.
Biometrics

Envisioning a world beyond passwords  

secure digital payments on mobile
Payment security

Visa and Mastercard sign tokenization agreement 

Cashier talks to a customer as the customer taps to pay with their phone.
Merchant services

Visa’s list of service providers gets a refresh 

Fingerprint, person and electric charge: Illustration of relationship.
Security

Biometrics: helping reduce friction and fraud in digital commerce 

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