April 29, 2025 – The FIDO Alliance has launched a Payments Working Group (PWG) to define and drive FIDO solutions for payment use cases. The PWG will also act as subject matter experts and internal advisors within the FIDO Alliance on issues affecting the use of FIDO solutions for payment use cases. The PWG is co-chaired by Henna Kapur of Visa and Jonathan Grossar of Mastercard, with other FIDO Alliance member company participants including American Express; Cartes Bancaires; Discover; Futurae; Infineon; OneSpan; PayPal; Royal Bank of Canada – Solution Acceleration & Innovation; and Thales.
The PWG will focus on three areas:
- Identify and evaluate specific requirements for payment authentication. Requirements will include those in the area of UX, security and regulation unique to payments;.
- Identify and evaluate existing and emerging solutions to address payment authentication requirements; and
- Guidelines for use of passkeys and/or proposed FIDO solutions along with existing payment technologies such as EMV® 3-D Secure or EMV® SRC.
The PWG will also work on associated projects relating to the use of FIDO solutions for payments including: collecting and publishing deployment case studies, documenting challenges and potential solutions to issues; and working with FIDO Alliance liaison partners to drive education and adoption.
Join the Payments Working Group
Organizations interested in taking part in the PWG and driving the adoption of passkeys for payments can inquire today. Participation in the PWG is open to all Board, Sponsor, and Government level members of the FIDO Alliance. Non-member organizations interested in participating should contact the FIDO Alliance to become a member; learn more by visiting https://fidoalliance.org/members/become-a-member/.
