{SECURE KEY} Online Transactions Made Easy?
Signed up for the Secure Key program from BMO Bank of Montreal. At the moment, the sign-in concierge displays three Canadian financial institutions as participants in this program. Pretty weak start, if you ask me. (See here)
Canada Revenue Agency, Canada’s tax arm, claims it will soon allow secure key authentication and login — as early as October 22nd.
At the moment, there’s little in the ecosystem to use this technology. I can’t even find a secure key option for BMO Bank of Montreal’s online banking services.
Reminds me of the old days when the Cue Cat was sent out in the wild, distributed by WIRED magazine, but few (if any) magazines took up the opportunity to add bar codes to their magazines to allow print readers a faster way to get to a specific URL. :-)
I don’t want to suggest “failed venture” but this type of new technology and product introduction requires a big splash — like the big budget advertising that VISA Debit has employed to spread news about their new payments vehicle.
Source: marketwire.com
