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Re:Pix surpasses credit and debit card transactions in Brazil by xyzzy_plugh on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:36PM (#36888617)
This is actually already quite common in developed countries in reasonable parts of the world. Many countries in Europe, Asia for example have something native. The US has even tried a few times, but seems forever behind the times. Even 3DS is practically a joke in the US.

If you're in America then the latest entry is FedNow.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment

Re:Pix surpasses credit and debit card transactions in Brazil by arcticbull on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:53AM (#36889071)
Things like 3DS benefit issuers and merchants due to lower fraud rates, but take more time, are higher friction and likely lead to fewer payments in total. If something like that doesn't exist or is watered down in the US it's likely because the issuers in the US decided that it wasn't worth the experiential or monetary cost. Or that they have other ways of identifying and dealing with fraudulent transactions, like ML models on the backend.

It's almost certainly a bean counter making that decision - and it's theirs to make - not due to some kind of technical inability to make 3DS work. The US is a low fraud rate market that values faster/easier transactions at point of sale over lower absolute fraud, almost certainly because it maximizes total profit.

Generally, a no-fraud environment isn't optimal.