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Knowledge sharingApril 29, 2026

The hidden complexity behind every payment card.

Knowledge sharingApril 7, 2026

Europe's payment independence takes center stage in Amsterdam.

Team spotlightApril 6, 2026

Explicit Selection wins the FD Gazellen award for the sixth time.

Knowledge sharingApril 1, 2026

Strengthening fraud risk management: A market analysis and policy benchmarking for a payment network.

Knowledge sharingMarch 19, 2026

From messy API docs to a portal developers actually love.

Knowledge sharingMarch 4, 2026

Harmonizing complexity: A three-phase transformation of payment network specifications.

EventsFebruary 25, 2026

We're heading to Houston for the Identity & Payments Summit!

Knowledge sharingFebruary 23, 2026

Explicit Selection nominated for FD Gazelle 2026.

Team spotlightFebruary 17, 2026

Explicit Selection certified as a Great Place to Work.

Knowledge sharingFebruary 12, 2026

Solving the complexity of payment disputes.

Knowledge sharingFebruary 3, 2026

Making DCC work across authorization, settlement & disputes.

Knowledge sharingJanuary 22, 2026

Creating network-wide consistency: A merchant category code (MCC) framework.

Knowledge sharingJanuary 13, 2026

Helping a payment network with their policy mapping project.

Knowledge sharingNovember 26, 2025

Honored to receive our fifth FD Gazellen award.

Knowledge sharingNovember 19, 2025

Explicit Selection nominated for FD Gazelle 2025 award.

Knowledge sharingNovember 7, 2025

Looking at payment network products and capabilities: Tap on Phone.

Knowledge sharingOctober 31, 2025

What do CID, CVC, CAV and CVV have in common?

Knowledge sharingOctober 22, 2025

Looking at payment network products and capabilities: Card-on-File.

EventsOctober 17, 2025

Meet us at USPF in Minneapolis next month.

Knowledge sharingOctober 10, 2025

Looking at issuer strategies: Wallets.

Knowledge sharingOctober 7, 2025

Disputes in payments are a complex landscape.

Knowledge sharingOctober 1, 2025

Explicit Selection officially inspected and certified by HDN.

Knowledge sharingSeptember 24, 2025

Single Credential Access.

Knowledge sharingSeptember 18, 2025

Looking at payment network capabilities: 3DS.

Knowledge sharingSeptember 16, 2025

Visa Pay capabilities.

Knowledge sharingSeptember 9, 2025

Tap to Everything.

Knowledge sharingSeptember 4, 2025

Agentic Commerce.

Knowledge sharingAugust 24, 2025

Fleet Payments — White paper.

Knowledge sharingAugust 4, 2025

Looking at payment network products and capabilities: MIT.

Knowledge sharingJune 20, 2025

Looking at payment network products and capabilities: pre-authorization.

Knowledge sharingJune 13, 2025

Payment network products and capabilities: Account Updater.

Knowledge sharingJune 6, 2025

Digital identity and payments are converging.

Knowledge sharingMay 29, 2025

Efficiently managing cardholder tiers through ALP/ALM.

Knowledge sharingMay 27, 2025

MCC codes and their use cases.

Knowledge sharingMay 20, 2025

Who is joining Money20/20.

Knowledge sharingMay 12, 2025

EMV Quick Chip leaving some odd traces on your payment receipt.

Knowledge sharingMay 6, 2025

Secure, interoperable digital identity will become a standard.

Knowledge sharingMay 1, 2025

Payments by AI agents rely on tokenization.

Knowledge sharingApril 29, 2025

Cloud banking, is it as good as it seems?

Knowledge sharingApril 28, 2025

Disrupters in the payments world and how to keep up.

Knowledge sharingApril 18, 2025

Processing volume vs customer data.

Knowledge sharingApril 17, 2025

Implementing robust KYC/AML verification processes.

Knowledge sharingApril 15, 2025

Innovation changing market share of payment processing volumes.

Team spotlightApril 10, 2025

Another FD Gazellen award added to the collection.

Knowledge sharingApril 8, 2025

Romance scams on top of rising identity fraud scams.

Knowledge sharingApril 4, 2025

Is digital DNA the new currency?

Knowledge sharingApril 2, 2025

Fraud prevention enables innovation in payments.

Knowledge sharingMarch 27, 2025

Converging ecosystems.

Knowledge sharingMarch 26, 2025

Click to Pay — store your credential.

Knowledge sharingMarch 25, 2025

The rise in Account-to-Account (A2A) payment systems.

Knowledge sharingMarch 18, 2025

Understanding Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their impact.

Knowledge sharingMarch 17, 2025

EU Digital Identity Wallet: identity and payments converging.

Knowledge sharingMarch 14, 2025

The opportunities of BaaS.

Knowledge sharingMarch 11, 2025

Taps on your phone.

Knowledge sharingMarch 7, 2025

Payments and EV charging converging.

Knowledge sharingMarch 5, 2025

Digital banking.

Knowledge sharingMarch 3, 2025

Convergence of digital identities and payment technologies.

Knowledge sharingFebruary 19, 2025

Enhancing fraud prevention with 3DS Secure.

EventsFebruary 18, 2025

Meet us at Identity and Payments Summit in San Diego.

Knowledge sharingFebruary 13, 2025

Can your product team manage Security Implementations effectively?

Knowledge sharingFebruary 11, 2025

Instant Payments Regulation and PSD3/PSR in EU.

Knowledge sharingApril 3, 2024

The Delegated Authentication registration flow.

Knowledge sharingMarch 21, 2024

Combining Click to Pay with mobile Driver License.

Team spotlightMarch 19, 2024

Honored with the FD Gazelle International 2024 nomination.

Knowledge sharingMarch 11, 2024

Turning prospects into customers through Digital Mortgage Onboarding.

Knowledge sharingFebruary 18, 2024

Card-linked offers during 2023 shopping season.

EventsFebruary 16, 2024

Meet us at the Identity & Payments Summit.

Knowledge sharingJanuary 21, 2024

EV Charging Transaction Processing.

Knowledge sharingJanuary 10, 2024

Payment methods in EV charging.

Team spotlightDecember 24, 2023

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Knowledge sharingDecember 13, 2023

Do you know your Delegated Authentication basics?

Knowledge sharingDecember 10, 2023

Enhancing Knab's Card eCommerce Security Leveraging 3D Secure.

Team spotlightNovember 23, 2023

Explicit Selection was awarded FD Gazellen 2023.

Knowledge sharingNovember 21, 2023

SoftPOS Solution Architecture.

Knowledge sharingNovember 19, 2023

The top 7 use cases for EV charging locations.

Knowledge sharingNovember 16, 2023

SoftPOS Vocabulary.

Team spotlightOctober 23, 2023

Proud to be FD Gazelle 2023.

Knowledge sharingOctober 10, 2023

AI for fraud prevention: friend or foe?

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