What has already applied to online banking since 2019 and what was initially postponed by BaFin for credit card payments (we already reported here) must also be implemented for credit card and other online retail payments from January 2021: The so-called two-factor authentication (also mentioned as „Strong Customer Authentication” (SCA)).
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