On 14 September 2019, the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) portion of the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) goes into effect. Simply put, PSD2 allows bank customers to give third-party providers access to retrieve their account data from their banks and use it to initiate payments directly from their bank accounts. Created as a way to unify payment systems within the European Economic Area (EEA) and increase banking choices for consumers, this Directive is expected to be a game changer for banking systems at large. Read more…
