Ten years is a very long time in the world of technology. Ten years ago, Microsoft launched their commercial version of Vista, Apple announced iTunes had just surpassed its 1 billionth downloads and Google had just overtaken Microsoft as the most valuable global...
Today, the Internet is a vast and open marketplace where businesses and consumers meet. It is a great way for companies to promote their products and services to a wider audience. To tap into this growing marketplace, the first thing you need to do is set up an...
SID Secure EFT is a safe, online payment method that enables you to make payments online. It is systematically monitored and verified by leading privacy and security specialists.SID remains unsurpassed by any other EFT solution competing within the existing market,...
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, SiD’s CEO David Liu looks back over the last decade and gives insight into the changes in the online payment security sector. What were you doing ten years ago? Well, if you are South African, chances are you were listening to...
Buying goods and services on the web is very safe when vendors make use of authorized merchant accounts or other electronic payments. Many people who purchase goods and services on the web are sceptical of various online payment solutions. An online payment solution...
Kyle Rozendo, CTO at SiD Secure EFT puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global shopping cart abandonment on e-commerce websites is reported at anything between 60 and 70 percent. Yet simple tweaks to the purchasing...
This year’s sudden spike in online shopping on Black Friday showed the true potential of e-commerce in South Africa. But it also showed that local merchants may not be prepared for sudden spikes in e-commerce trade which will continue into the festive season – and the...
Increasing sophistication in card fraud is reason for concern. Not only for banks, but most especially for online merchants, who are at risk of losing their ability to trade should they be implicated in repeat fraud attempts and excessive customer disputes. While...
High-profile security breaches, such as the most recent one at Yahoo, have captured the headlines and given many pauses for thought about just who stores and secures our online identity. But it’s more than just the big corporates who are at risk when security is...
Europe’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is expected to come into force in January 2018. With some banking industry commentators referring to it as the biggest development in banking history, one has to wonder why South Africa has not already begun to follow suit....
