Cardinal's fast, secure payment authentication creates a rewarding shopping experience for all…

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  • Merchants
  • Issuers

Thousands of merchants and issuers, authenticating billions of transactions a year, choose Cardinal. Why? Because we're taking on fraud and false declines.

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The sunset of 1.0.2 is coming

This October marks the sunset of 3DS 1.0 except in countries with network extensions. When the sunset occurs, the Directory Server will no longer be able to support 3DS 1.0 transaction requests, and Cardinal will sunset 3DS 1.0 and all its features.

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Let's talk numbers.

You like your privacy and we protect our clients privacy as well. But, here's what we can tell you…

Network web
~900M

~900M authenticated transactions representing $225B of purchase volume

Phone
2.5 billion

transactions for $275B purchase volume

Shopping cart
250K

BINs issued from 263 countries and acquired in 85 countries with 35K merchants.

Click
500M

unique PANs authenticated across our network

Globe
~400K

unique Merchant ID/ Acquirer ID combinations

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    The Sunset of 3DS 1.0.2

    October 2022 will mark the second and final phase of the sunset of 3DS 1.0.2.

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    From a pandemic to civil unrest - to a presidential election wrapping up in December - this was one doozy of a year, full of more twists and turns than we knew what to do with. But we made it.

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  • mandates

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    Find out why now’s the time to tackle PSD2 SCA head on to meet the upcoming 12.31.20 deadline - and how we can help.

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  • webinars

    The Power of Connection

    Join the conversation as Matt and Susan talk about the power of connection between merchants and issuers, the importance of data-sharing, and how EMV® 3-D Secure delivers more data for better payment decisioning. Watch the replay now.

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