PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Cybercriminals deploy a variety of tactics to process their ill-gotten gains, ranging from techniques as basic as exchanging gift cards to ones as advanced as setting up fake eCommerce storefronts. Online commerce has surged in popularity as the pandemic has limited store traffic, with online marketplaces expected to generate $4.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For small, mom-and-pop retailers, complex or proprietary procurement platforms simply aren't in the cards. With the pandemic accelerating businesses' digital shift , small retail buyers have shifted their buying operations to the B2B eCommerce realm, and for many, the online marketplace operates in lieu of a procurement solution.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Despite announcements last month that the deadline for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) compliance will be extended , the original proposed deadline approaches next week. The potential cost for non-compliance is huge. The potential cost for non-compliance is huge. Previous efforts for the U.S. a password). asked Eleveld.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

The company had launched an online marketplace for 34 countries in the region last year and recently acquired a minority stake in the eCommerce solutions provider with which it collaborated on the effort. The collaboration is expected to give Visa’s global merchant and card network access to M-Pesa’s financial services network.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now as a last-minute Christmas present. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to the new and emerging legal cannabis industry – along with the closely related trade in CBD products – payments and compliance issues, as one can imagine, have tremendous importance, and companies are striving to get into the game via those angles. While CBD does not get people high, it does reportedly relieve stress and pain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Compliance and risk? Automating that compliance is now a “need to have.”. Compliance and risk officers have the unenviable task of finding out, sometimes after the fact, that not all the boxes are checked — if they even knew the boxes were there for checking in the first place. Plugging In To Plugins.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

based online cross-border remittance services provider WorldRemit is one player working to smooth out common speed bumps that slow payments for businesses and individuals alike. Taking Transfers Online. Behind its faster payments strategy is an online-only approach. In a recent interview, Brion Nazzaro, the company’s U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On October 3, 2022, the Federal Reserve finalized a rule expanding Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), the implementing regulation for the Durbin Amendment. The final rule will be effective July 1. Given this continued uncertainty, I do not support the final rule.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The problem, Abramowitz noted, is that retail in the last decade has moved online and into multi-channel – and private-label cards have not really made the necessary transformation to keep pace. This isn’t the case for retailers born in the online world, Abramowitz contends. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

As online gamblers all but feast on the odds and brackets of the ongoing NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in the U.S. – In that spirit, most consumers understand the need for a relatively involved onboarding process when first signing up for an online gambling site or service. the first March Madness since the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Fintech Partner Connect will “support new ways for businesses and consumers to seamlessly and securely pay, get paid, send money and more,” a spokesperson for the credit card and financial services giant said in an email announcing the new program on Visa on Wednesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

The carriers preload the Adfone platform onto devices or SIM cards. “We’re Even though we don’t have to, we take that same framework of GDPR compliance and we apply it everywhere around the world across all of its deployments,” he elaborated. do not realize that 80 percent of the world’s 5 billon smartphones are prepaid.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Online delivery services might levy taxes on food charges, or on the combined total of the amount charged for the food, fees and delivery charges — resulting in significantly different taxes collected. There’s the standard model illuminated by the local pizza shop: Pick up the phone, place the order and charge the amount to a credit card.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

European tech firm SIA is forming a technological partnership with German software innovator INFORM to launch a digital service to speed up the authentication process for online payments across Europe. Boni added that the solution was integrated in SIA's infrastructures and will launch quickly to “ensure PSD2 compliance.” . billion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Meanwhile, payment service providers (PSPs) are scrambling to find ways to authenticate these customers without adding friction to online transactions. There were no increases in transaction declines or abandonment within the first two days that SCA was active, at least according to a study by credit card provider Barclaycard.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Barclays Transact aims to help merchants make online transactions simpler, safer and compliant with the upcoming SCA regulations. card transactions. As consumers headed online en masse, the fraudsters surely followed, Sevounts said. And that highlights the importance of having a partner in digital security, Sevounts added.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Adflex has unveiled a new initiative aimed at boosting supply chain merchants’ ability to accept card payments from buyers as eCommerce booms amid the coronavirus crisis. Established trading partners” benefit from an even more streamlined compliance process, with Adflex “authorised to securely store Cards on File (CoF).”.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Consumers with Discover cards spent less on travel and everyday purchases, but more on entertainment, driving loan growth in the third quarter. The company also benefited from the Fed's enforcement of online debit-routing rules, but these boons couldn't offset investor concerns over its issues with the FDIC and its CEO search.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

European tech firm SIA is forming a technological partnership with German software innovator INFORM to launch a digital service to speed up the authentication process for online payments across Europe. Boni added that the solution was integrated in SIA's infrastructures and will launch quickly to “ensure PSD2 compliance.” . billion.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Security firm Gemalto will offer biometric EMV payment cards to its bank customers using biometric company Fingerprint Cards’ T-Shape sensor and licensing its recently-launched Biometric Software Platform for payments. Gemalto’s roughly 300 digital banking […].

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2023

But compliance deadlines are tiered. However, compliance deadlines for affected financial institutions are tiered so that small business lenders originating the most transactions begin reporting data earlier than less active small business lenders. 1, 2024, is the earliest compliance deadline.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Wells Fargo also reported single-digit gains in credit and debit cards. The bank also reported general purpose credit card point-of-sale (POS) purchase volume of $20.2 Debit card POS purchase volume, meanwhile, reached $89.8 Credit card loans increased $1.2 Credit card loans increased $1.2 percent to $86.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Wells Fargo also reported single-digital gains in credit and debit cards. The bank also reported general purpose credit card point-of-sale purchase volume of $20.2 Debit card point-of-sale purchase volume, meanwhile, reached $89.8 Credit card loans increased $1.2 Credit card loans increased $1.2 percent, to $86.4

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Others explain common and emerging fraud trends that compliance staff are working to prevent. This post by Abrigo Director of Compliance and Engagement Terri Luttrell, CAMS-Audit CFCS, explains the CTA updates, predictions for the next rulemaking, and key provisions of the regulations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Lately, service providers have been turning to the virtual card to address needs for electronic payment. There are barriers to accessing a virtual card payment program, however — particularly for businesses that aren’t using a Travel Management Company.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

“With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”. As more brands embrace eCommerce, he added, joining online platforms solves only some of the challenges of international, cross-border efforts — namely, setting up digital storefronts and reaching consumers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, average interest rates on credit cards are approaching record levels. Credit Card Interest Rates Rise To Near-Record Levels. Average interest rates on credit cards are coming close to record levels despite a 50-basis-point decline on a 10-year note yield. 14) in Switzerland.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Two major Austrian card issuers are also using the technology. We are extremely proud of our track record with Netcetera, and we look forward to collaborating on many more implementations, enabling financial services providers to meet consumer demand and their own compliance objectives quickly and painlessly.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

The need to address verification challenges is growing around the world, as customers rely more on online services for ordering food and drink, leading to fierce competition among delivery services. Around the Digital Onboarding World. Take the Uber -branded delivery service, Uber Eats , which recently expanded its services in Canada.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Very few of the participants in the payment ecosystem are remotely ready,” he said, “and that goes for the card brands and the payment service providers.”. To get there, he said, PSPs and the card schemes can help guide merchants through new compliance territory. Delving into SCA. Looking for Exemptions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Marketplaces looking to make a mark in a new country need to “look at regulation and compliance requirements that are different [in each] country. “Each country is a separate case, really,” Likar noted, referencing payouts to gig or freelance workers in far-flung locales. You may have to open a legal entity, and this may not be easy.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Making sure all the risks are covered from the perspective of an online merchant ensures there is risk diversification and makes sure that they are connected to several acquirers and banks,” explained Metodieva. That framework can be applied to merchants' payment solution providers, too. All parties in the payment ecosystem.

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Banking Exchange

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online payment fraud could cost companies more than $200 billion over four years, finds Juniper Research Risk Management Technology AML & Fraud Cyberfraud/ID Theft Compliance/Regulatory Operational Risk Big Data Security Online Cards BSA/AML Feature3 Feature Financial Research Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Data collection requirements The CFPB 1071 rule is a top compliance concern According to a recent survey , financial institution executives’ top regulatory compliance concern is the final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on data collection for small business loan applications.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

15 that hackers stole customer names, credit card numbers and other personal information. The CCPA is intended to give consumers control over their personal information online. The potential punishments for non-compliance are steep. Hackers aren’t making compliance any easier. million. “And

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