Author: Justin Gage

Justin Gage, Principal Consultant, is a subject matter expert in payment and identity technology solutions and services. His background includes technology product and project management experience across financial services, consulting, and government roles, providing an effective interface between business and technical teams. At Consult Hyperion, he is delivery lead for the identity and privacy practice areas in North America, while also supporting projects focused on transit open-loop payments, secure digital payments, and payment technology modernisation. In this role, he provides client support for requirements gathering and formulation, market analysis, vendor selection, technical design review, solution implementation, and product development. His focus has been on banking, financial services, and public sector clients considering developing or enhancing existing digital identity and retail payment technology solutions.

DIACC announces launch of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework

18th September 202018th September 2020by Justin GageLeave a comment

The Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (“DIACC”) announced the launch of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework^TM (“PCTF”) this week, a set of digital ID and authentication industry standards that will define how digital ID will roll out across Canada. Its launch marks the shift from the framework’s development into official operation and will begin alpha testing by public and private sector members in Canada. The alpha testing will inform the launch of DIACC’s PCTF Voila Verified Trustmark Assurance Program (“Voila Verified”), set to launch next year.

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SRC enters the secure digital commerce arena

28th October 201916th September 2020by Justin Gage1 Comment

Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) officially launched in the US last week, supported by a limited set of merchants, with more to launch by year-end and into early 2020. We’ve been tracking SRC for some time now as it moved through the specification development process within EMVCo. It has emerged at launch as a customer-facing brand called “Click-to-Pay,” unless you’re using an Amex card, where it’s also called “Online Checkout” in confirmation emails received after registering a card.

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IdentityNORTH 2019

3rd July 201916th September 2020by Justin GageLeave a comment

We recently attended IdentityNORTH in Toronto and as usual it was a great event to connect with colleagues and hear about what’s going in with digital identity initiatives in Canada. Aran, Krista and the entire IdentityNORTH team always put on an organized, well-run event with lots of great speakers and interesting sessions.

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Digital Identity Alphabet Soup

27th June 201930th October 2020by Justin GageLeave a comment

We’ve been attending various identity conferences over the last few months, including KNOW 2019, the Internet Identity Workshop, and IdentityNORTH in North America, and EIC and Identity Week in Europe. One of the major themes that continues to stand out in all these events is the number of simultaneous initiatives going on around the world to create standards addressing various aspects of digital identity. It’s one of the reasons we created our 3-Domain Identity Model (see here for a refresher on 3DID), to help our clients navigate their way through all of this and to think about where they may play a role.

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