CVV / CVC
A short numeric security code printed on a card used to verify card-not-present transactions.
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3-D Secure
A risk-based authentication protocol for card-not-present transactions, currently in its 2.x generation.
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Contactless Payment Statistics
Adoption, transaction share, and ticket-size trends for tap-to-pay.
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Payment Fraud Statistics
Card-not-present fraud, scams, and the cost of payment crime.
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Deepfake Authorization: A New Attack Surface for Card-Not-Present
Voice and video deepfakes are showing up in account-takeover and high-value-purchase flows.
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PIN
Personal Identification Number - a knowledge-based CVM used in card-present authorization.
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Card-Not-Present
A transaction in which the card and cardholder are not physically presented to the merchant.
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AI Payments
Autonomous transactions, intelligent routing, and the rise of agentic commerce.
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Tokenization
Replacing sensitive credentials with cryptographic surrogates.