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For years, technology major players, the GAFAM (Google Apple Facebook Amazon and Microsoft) have been trying to displace financial institutions when it comes to making payment transactions but in spite of huge investments, they have not succeeded yet to displace traditional financial institutions. The latest step in this fight is Google’s announcement for Google Pay relaunch. The new Google Pay service, will let people pay using their phones and extend its focus to online ban

To avoid physical contacts, more payment card users have switched to contactless operation than ever before.

We all expect our travels to be easier and smoother, especially when it comes to air passenger journeys in airports and immigration posts. Our secure transactions industry has been helping to achieve this goal for years. However, the Covid-19 crisis demonstrates that one of the first mitigation measures taken by governments is restricting international travels. Travels after the crisis may become totally different for passengers: biometrics will take precedence over manual ch

The eternal fight between cops and robbers goes on in the cyberworld. Cybercrime is getting always more structured and organized, in a demonstration of unregulated capitalism. Are corporations and governments able to react fast enough and set up structured cybersecurity operations? The answer is more a management matter than a technology concern. Thales just published its 2020 Cyber Threat Handbook, subtitled “organized cybercrime.” In this document, Thales focuses on the in