authentication

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They log in to the borrower’s account and request a password change, which will send a two-factor authentication code to the borrower.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

These include a one-hour lag at the payer's end in account-to-account transactions and additional authentication by a "trusted person" for high-value digital payments by vulnerable sections of society such as elderly people.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The process works much like two-factor authentication on a banking website.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

While palm, face or iris payment and authentication aren’t widespread in the U.S., more commercial trials are popping up, and this type of biometric technology has the potential to proliferate over the next few years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama