FSS enhances Secure3D for PSD2 SCA Compliance

By Robin Amlot

FSS (Financial Software and Systems) reports that its FSS Secure3D is compliant with European Union Payment Service Directive2, Strong Customer Authentication (PSD2 SCA) guidelines for initiating and processing electronic payments due to come into effect in December 2020. The support for PSD2 SCA guidelines reduces risk exposure, minimises losses, and provides safer, secure commerce experiences to consumers in an open banking world.

FSS Secure3D supports compliant and user-friendly SCA through:

• Smart-Authenticator: Supports multiple authentication modes (biometrics, dynamic knowledge based question, one time pass code and more) for verifying customers along SCA-specified attributes — something a customer knows (e.g. a password), is (e.g. a fingerprint) or has (e.g. a smartphone)
• Smart-Policy Manager: Enables issuers implement frictionless flows for permissible SCA exemptions including low-value payments, same-amount recurring transactions and whitelisted beneficiaries
• Smart-Protect: Analyses merchant fraud score as specified by SCA guidelines in combination with embedded machine learning-based models for profiling customer transaction activity to determine SCA applicability for a particular transaction.
• Smart-List: Maintains a repository of “trusted merchant beneficiaries,” whitelisted by customers for applying SCA exemptions
• Smart Insights: Presents actionable transaction trends through an intuitive, easy-to-manage web interface to glean fraud patterns and refine fraud related decisioning

Sathish N, Deputy CPO, FSS said: “With a surge in adoption of online payments, fraud attack vectors have grown in sophistication. FSS takes the complexity out of implementing PSD2 SCA and satisfy the new authentication requirements without introducing additional friction in the payment process.  FSS Secure3D equips customers with real-time risk analysis tools to enable frictionless flow for higher volume of transactions, deliver safer transacting experiences and build trust-based relationships with consumers.”

FSS offers Secure3D As-a-Service to streamline implementation and speed compliance with PSD2-compliant SCA directives for online card payments. FSS Secure3D is deployed by leading banks and processors and is compliant with EMVCo  3DS 2.1 guidelines and certified by Mastercard and Visa. The solution is compliant with the new Mastercard SCA related message extensions compatible with EMVCo Versions 2.1 and 2.2.