The Paypers

APRIL 10, 2019

(The Paypers) Mastercard has partnered with Germany-based Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Mobile Security to accelerate issuance of contactless cards in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To get a sense of the new frontiers in cybercrime, and how cryptocurrency helps fraudsters cover their tracks or finance their schemes … look, perhaps, to Latin America. Separately, in terms of fraud against companies, banking trojans, malware and ransomware have been coming from the Latin American region, the paper said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Global technical body EMVCo has released its updated report on the number of EMV chip payment cards, saying that the figure has increased 1.4 percent of all card-present transactions conducted globally between Jan. EMVCo also broke down EMV chip card adoption rate by regions: Europe Zone 1: 84.3% (up from 83.5%

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. He offered an example in which a U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

According to a press release from Market Research Future , North America is the leader in the wireless POS market as the region has “advanced technological infrastructure.” As a result, the region can be an “early adopter” of the technology. Card Payment Acceptance. Mobile Wallets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. In Latin America, the infrastructure mainly relies on banks to provide kind of these types of services to the SME segment. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Open banking has been picking up steam in Latin America for more than two years. Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data from secure payments enabler EMVCo shows that 58.9 percent of card present transactions, measured globally, were EMV chip-enabled, the technical body said Wednesday. other regions have seen much higher adoption rates of EMV-enabled transactions, as the technology has been deployed there for significantly longer periods of time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The information exposed did not include any financial information, social security numbers or password data. None of your financial data (including credit card information) or social security numbers were involved, and no passwords were compromised,” said the disclosure. . We promptly reported this to authorities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

25) from Verizon Communications, full compliance with the PCI DSS (short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) dropped last year, the first decline seen in six years. The study noted that there are some regional differences, as 77.8 percent in the Americas. A case of complacency on compliance?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

But it stands as perhaps the main takeaway from a recent, turn-of-the-year PYMNTS conversation with Kevin Fox, executive vice president of NovoPayment , a banking as a service (BaaS) provider with a large presence across the Americas. In Latin America, mobile penetration is high,” Fox said, “which makes new banking services possible.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The shift from magnetic stripe to EMV chip cards marked one of the 21 st century’s most widespread payment developments. Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others. Those numbers look pretty different by region. In North America, where a majority of AR developments are expected to originate in these early years, that number is 62 percent. The global security concern figure is 87 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

Through the partnership , Bluefin’s PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution will be used to help expand the data security for companies utilizing FAC’s payment gateway. PYMNTS: How will the partnership help to expand data security in the market? Here is an excerpt of the conversation. but unlike the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Visa announced that the growing number of chip cards and chip-enabled merchants has helped bring counterfeit fraud in the U.S. payments industry to begin the shift to EMV chip cards in 2011,” the company wrote in a press release. payment volume in March was on EMV cards. down by 76 percent. Visa set the path for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

He said the acquisition would add more choice for customers alongside new technical and security capabilities. Headquartered in Taiwan, Castles Technology has regional offices in North America, Spain, Italy, Japan, China and Singapore to support global markets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Digital enterprises are going regional and instant payments are going national (and earlier than originally scheduled). Nubank’s $10B Regional Expansion . the Brazil-based firm is on a path to becoming the most valuable startup in Latin America. But before partaking in blockchain bacchanal ….

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

In the “ 2018 B2B Payments & WCM Strategies ” report, Strategic Treasurer, Bottomline Technologies and Bank of America surveyed about 275 respondents to assess how corporate payment behavior is – or isn’t – changing. Critical to the increased adoption of commercial cards is the increasing acceptance of cards by vendors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

. “LG Pay demonstrates LG’s commitment to offering products and services that provide value and convenience to our customers,” said Chris Yie, head of LG Mobile, North America. “LG Pay’s unique features enable flexibility and ease-of-use in the growing mobile payments space.”

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NCR

AUGUST 29, 2016

The number of EMV payment cards in global circulation had rocketed more than 40 per cent year on year by the end of 2015, new statistics from EMVCo have revealed. billion ‘chip-and-pin’ cards when the data was collected, and 35.8 The region’s chip card adoption rate jumped to 52.3 There were 4.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Cash and checks remain common in B2B transactions, analysts said, with cash usage the highest in emerging markets including Asia Pacific and Latin America. Where cash usage for B2B transactions remains low, as in North America, wire and credit transfers are most popular. Regional Trends. What’s Holding Them Back.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That’s the thinking behind Mozper , a debit card and app focused on improving financial literacy in Latin America. As digital options grow in the region and kids’ spending habits move away from cash, Mozper has just closed a funding round in its quest to instill healthy financial habits. “So Focusing On Financial Inclusion .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

London-based FinTech startup Rapyd has secured an additional $20 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.2 The deals — for a card issuing platform and a payments company in Asia-Pacific — are expected to close in February or March. This latest round of funding comes from new investment firm Durable Capital Partners.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

In PYMNTS’ June edition of The Digital Payments In A Digital World Playbook done in collaboration with Wirecard , we learn that “digital shifts in regions like the EU and the U.S. are somewhat expected, with consumers in both [regions] more frequently interacting with financial and payment providers through digital channels.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Citi’s latest financial report comes as the bank is engaged in various hot areas of payments, not the least of which is dealing with — and trying to get ahead of — ongoing shifts in payments, commerce, security and transparency, and giving corporate cash managers an edge when it comes to real-time and instant payments and other areas.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Visa is presently the only card brand providing a multiple sensory experience as part of their transactions mechanics. “As Studies done on San Francisco’s consumers indicated that consumers who experienced sensory branding were 12 percent more likely to say that the merchant cares for their security.

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FICO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While the global payments market has been transformed by several factors, not least the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional cash-based payments still dominate across the region. With this region-wide change in payment preferences comes the associated challenge of an increase in fraud. The Future of Fraud Detection in the MENA Region.

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NCR

MAY 8, 2018

In one of the clearest examples yet of PSD2 enabling new services that could replace card transactions, Deutsche Bank has announced details of a “game-changing” payments solution for airlines. Currently, most payments between airlines and their customers are via credit and debit card. Image credit: scyther5 via iStock.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

And while that is a big goal, Taneja said that it’s all in a day’s work for the global card network that has operations in 200 countries, billions of cards issued across more than 16,000 banks, trillions of dollars in payments processed annually and a processing network — VisaNet — capable of securely processing 65,000 messages per second.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., Among the core reasons for this: The perception that the use of cash was more secure.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 4, 2024

That’s similar to MoneyLion, whose Q2 2023 securities filing claimed the company had “nearly” 10 million customers. Because banks like Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo and other large regional banks have highly diverse product lines, making a direct comparison of number of customers nearly impossible. Well, not all members.

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Comparison Fintech America Survey 93

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Fewer consumers use physical currency when making purchases, and are instead turning to more modern, digital methods of payment, particularly when making purchases online with debit cards. and around the globe. and around the globe. This pushed Bonkowski and his team to explore digital authentication solutions to protect its global user base.

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NCR

MARCH 17, 2016

We have seen card skimming attacks nearly triple in the United States. In our conversations with ATM operators we are beginning to see a much more progressive and proactive view about the deployment of security solutions. While common in many markets, some regions have lagged in their interest to deploy anti-skimming solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

On Wednesday (July 27), Mastercard and PayPal announced a multi-year extension of the co-branded consumer credit card program, PayPal Extras Mastercard, in the U.S. We are proud to continue our longstanding relationship with PayPal through this program,” Craig Vosburg, president of North America for Mastercard, said in a press release. “In

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Most of those gains, however, were lost later in the day following Mastercard’s separate announcement of a potential regulatory fine from the European Commission over its inter-regional interchange fees. “As the world becomes more connected, we remain very focused on security. directly to their debit cards. As of Sept.

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