Improved [Contactless] Card Security

[CunningQuestion (Andrew Gill)]

I think if you’re staff, Monzo pay you a monthly fee aka ‘salary’ :))

[anon70107404]

@CunningQuestion

I think if you’re staff, Monzo pay you a monthly fee

Ha! That’s true. Well, we’ll all find out soon:

@amelia

we’ll be making an explanatory post here tomorrow to let you know how you can help test!

[walderston (Adam)]

Its been announce:

[Tulloch]

Surely this already happens with contactless, it’s not new.

[tomwilson]

Hi

Does this mean we will need enter our pin more often on all contactless payments, including Apple Pay payments?

[Marksummers]

Not Apple Pay because you already authenticate using Touch ID or Face ID.

[xnox]

Maybe should be merged into:

Monzo Labs: Improved Card Security

Hi Everyone , On 14 September 2019 new regulation for authenticating payments, called Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), will be introduced in the UK as part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). SCA will play a key role in reducing the level of fraud across the UK by tightening the rules around authenticating our customers when making card payments that don’t need you to enter your PIN. While this new regulation won’t actually protect you from any new types of fraud you we…