Welcome back to another insightful Virtual Arena from FF News! In today’s episode, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the payments industry. As alternative payment methods and technologies continue to rise in prominence all over the world, the challenge of verifying the legitimacy of those payments only continues to grow. Today, we’ll be facing that challenge head-on with an in-depth discussion about authentication in the world of payments.

For this conversation, FF News’ Douglas Mackenzie is joined by Quentin Stephen of Giesecke + Devirent, Linda Weston of Barclaycard Payments and Andrew Shikiar of FIDO Alliance.


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