Innovation in Payments Authentication 2025

Innovation in Payments Authentication 2025

Summary

This report analyzes the current payment authentication landscape, exploring how authentication technologies have evolved over the years. It examines key growth areas, particularly in proximity payments, and provides future forecasts. The study delves into innovations across payment cards, online banking, mobile wallets, and other digital payment methods, highlighting advancements such as biometrics, tokenization, and dynamic security features. Additionally, it assesses ongoing trends such as the shift toward frictionless yet secure authentication, including facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, and one-click approval. The report also identifies the emerging trends and technological shifts that will shape the next generation of payment security.

The banking and payments environment is undergoing a period of rapid digital transformation, making payment authentication a critical priority for financial institutions and payment services providers. As cyber threats and fraudulent activities escalate, authentication methods must evolve to balance security, compliance, and user experience. With regulatory frameworks tightening and consumer expectations shifting, innovation in authentication is no longer optional-it is a core component of secure and seamless payment services.

Scope

  • Despite the shift toward mobile wallets, credit and debit card authentication remains a key security measure in digital payments.
  • Mobile payment authentication relies on a combination of biometrics, tokenization, encryption, and fraud detection to enhance security while ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Cross-border payment authentication is evolving rapidly, driven by the need for enhanced security, speed, and compliance in global transactions. Current trends include the adoption of advanced technologies such as biometric authentication and AI-driven fraud detection systems to verify user identities and detect suspicious activities in real-time.
Reasons to Buy
  • Gain an understanding of digital payment usage and fraud experiences based on GlobalData’s annual Financial Services Consumer Survey.
  • Learn about how the evolution of payment authentication over the decades.
  • Identify the key innovations in the payment authentication landscape and the technological evolutions that are driving the trend forward.


  • Introduction
    • Payment authentication is key to fraud prevention
    • Drivers of innovation in payments authentication
  • Proximity Payments
    • Digital payments growth increases the need for security
    • Mobile payment volume has overtaken cards and will continue to grow
    • Future consumer payment trends favor mobile
  • Payment Cards
    • Payment card authentication methods
    • Payment card authentication service providers
  • Online Banking Payments
    • Online banking payment authentication methods
    • Online banking payment authentication service providers
  • Mobile Wallets and Payments
    • Mobile wallet payment authentication methods
    • Mobile wallets, payment networks, and authentication services
    • Biometric authentication, tokenization, and fraud detection services
  • Other Digital Payments
    • Buy now pay later transaction value will double by 2029
    • Other payment authentication methods
    • Other payment authentication services
  • Consumer Fraud Experiences
    • Preventing fraudulent activities is an ongoing challenge
    • Younger generations are at higher risk of being a fraud victim
    • Mobile wallet users are more prone to fraud
  • Future Payment Authentication Trends
    • Biometrics will become the standard for payment authentication
    • Biometric payments continue to evolve
    • Palm recognition is the most ideal format of biometric authentication
    • Visa, Amazon, and Ingenico are leading the way in palm biometric payments
    • Tokenization has evolved over 20 years and is now a key element of payments
  • Key Takeaways
  • Appendix
    • Methodology
    • Secondary sources
    • Further reading

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