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Can I opt out of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)?

No, you can’t. This is because Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is part of new Europe-wide legislation (the revised Payment Services Directive, or PSD2 for short) that changes how people make payments or service their accounts online. The new regulations will apply to all payments, not just those processed by Barclays and Barclaycard.