Strong Customer Authentication banking changes,

[Jet Cash]

I've just received this alert from the Nationwide.
https://www.nationwide.co.uk/products/current-accounts/landing-page/strong-customer-authentication#headingtag1

It would appear that the banks in the UK are tightening up even more with regards to account management. The obligation to enter your date of birth seems to be a bit of an odd requirement, and easy to uncover if one is attempting fraudulent operations. I'm considering removing my DoB from all of my forum profiles everywhere.

Also, they seem to be pushing their banking apps, and those are not something I wish to install in my computers.

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[Xylber]

They like to control what people do with their money, but who controls them?

[crwth]

So it says that it's for preventing fraud, or committing more?

The addition of putting in your DOB is somewhat weird in my opinion. It's still better to use 2FA rather than knowing a piece of actual information that can be extracted if you know someone just to prove something or to log in.

[odolvlobo]

... I'm considering removing my DoB from all of my forum profiles everywhere. ...

I use a different date of birth for every site that asks for it. In fact, I do that for every kind of identifying information.

[sheenshane]

Well I guess, they knew that some people are taking advantage of their system's vulnerability. Maybe, they were already been victimized by the great frauds without noticing them and had a zero identification about them for the authority to catch them. We still have a couple of months to be anonymous users in online payments since this regulation will be initiated on 14 of September this year in the whole of Europe.

Well you may check these as it is the exemptions to strong customer authentication

"Exemptions to Strong Customer Authentication
Under this new regulation, specific types of low-risk payments may be exempted from Strong Customer Authentication. Payment providers like Stripe will be able to request these exemptions when processing the payment. The cardholder’s bank will then receive the request, assess the risk level of the transaction, and ultimately decide whether to approve the exemption or whether authentication is still necessary.

Building authentication into your checkout flow introduces an extra step that can add friction and increase customer drop-off. Using exemptions for low-risk payments can reduce the number of times you will need to authenticate a customer and reduce friction. We have designed our new SCA-ready payments products to let you take advantage of exemptions when possible to help protect your conversion.

"The most relevant exemptions for internet businesses are:"