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Protected without noticing: why authentication should start with the customer

WHAT HAPPENED

In a contributed expert view at The Paypers, KAE’s Ruby Shipton argues that payment authentication should reflect the customer and transaction context. She recommends richer 3DS2 data, mobile-friendly challenge flows and monitoring challenge and abandonment rates, while noting that issuers decide whether to challenge.

KEY FIGURES

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October 20, 2026
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Oct 20, 08:38 AM
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# Protected without noticing: why authentication should start with the customer

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Contributed expert opinion
> Source: [The Paypers](https://thepaypers.com/fraud-and-fincrime/expert-views/protected-without-noticing-why-authentication-should-start-with-the-customer)
> Published: 2026-10-20
> Captured: 2026-10-20T12:38:23.844Z

## Source summary

In a contributed expert view at The Paypers, KAE’s Ruby Shipton argues that payment authentication should reflect the customer and transaction context. She recommends richer 3DS2 data, mobile-friendly challenge flows and monitoring challenge and abandonment rates, while noting that issuers decide whether to challenge.

## Why it matters

This is attributed practitioner analysis of checkout fraud and friction, not a product launch, an independent experiment or a guarantee of conversion gains. Survey percentages and broad liability claims are omitted pending original-source validation.

## Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Payment infrastructure
- Entities: KAE
- Payment infrastructure

## Evidence and credibility note

Attribution and scope reviewed against the complete original page; no independent performance validation is claimed.

Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-10-20T05:39:53+00:00

## First-party corroboration

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