The standards aim to reduce fraud through additional, mandated authentication measures for all electronic cardholder-not-present payments. Objectors say strong customer authentication, as it’s known, would make standard corporate travel booking and payment processes, from lodge cards and virtual cards to travel management companies booking on behalf of customers, much more difficult at best. At worst, they’d make those processes impossible. Opponents also argue SCA is unnecessary because fraud levels are far lower in commercial payments. “The fundamental point for me is that we aren’t [just] trying to deal with fraud [but that] we absolutely are dealing with it,” said Citi head of commercial cards EMEA Steve Robson. “This has come as a sledgehammer blow as a result of not understanding the industry.”
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