Payments Source

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Since the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard was introduced in 2004, many merchants found compliance to be too arduous or costly and just skipped it, risking fines. But increasingly, other regulations like GDPR are changing the PCI DSS compliance equation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 7, 2021

The CFPB has issued an approval order through its Compliance Assistance Sandbox Policy (CAS Policy) to Synchrony Bank in connection with a proposed “dual-feature” credit card (DFCC) program. Once unsecured, the DFCC’s APR would be higher than the APR it had when secured. The order has a 36-month duration.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Businesses that fail to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations risk major regulator fines and irreparable damage to customer relationships when something goes wrong. The September AML/KYC Tracker examines the latest fraud challenges and efforts to ensure tight security and compliance. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Merchants in the European Union (EU) are still wondering exactly what changes the regulation will bring when it comes to their relationships with customers. Regulators in many EU countries have their own thoughts on SCA and how long it will take merchants to prepare. Around the PSD2 and GDPR world. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Security and technology consulting company Accutive is rolling out a new solution designed to give enterprises an alternative to data encryption to protect sensitive information. Data Discovery enables businesses to identify sensitive data that will require specific regulatory compliance measures. In a press release on Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

These marketplaces need to have strong security approaches in place, however, to ensure they do not accidentally onboard any fraudulent sellers or let other scams be perpetrated across their platforms. 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

MAY 31, 2016

And the regulations just keep coming. In the banking industry, the mindset among compliance staff seems to be one where the expectation is to have a new rule governing new rules that govern new rules. In this brave new regulatory world, noted The Journal , traders interact with compliance officers. among other agencies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

As Laura Valdespino , director of compliance solutions at ADP , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, using digital channels, and specifically, pay cards, can actually improve the employees’ pay experience over paper-based methods that have been in place for decades. Regulations are still where they were pre-pandemic,” Valdespino said.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The FDIC issued guidance about the consumer compliance risks associated with assessing NSF arising from the re-presentment of the same unpaid transaction. Debit card interchange fees and routing. The Federal Reserve Board finalized updates to the board’s rule for debit card transactions. Quick Stat. Source: FDIC.

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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. has not implemented regulations like GDPR or SCA, but there has been a groundswell of interest, at least from the private sector. Previous efforts for the U.S.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s blog, we’ll discuss some of the latest and greatest features around Teams collaboration, meetings, calling, and security/compliance! Security and Compliance Updates. Adaptive Card Compliance Capabilities. The following compliance capabilities are now generally available: Legal hold.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

According to Brad Fauss, president and CEO of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, the recently released regulations on prepaid cards from the Consumer Finance Protection Board could be another instance of good intentions gone wrong. The updated regulations are slated to take effect Oct.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2019

Investigators from the Federal Reserve carried out an inspection of Amazon ’s cloud in April as Washington looks into ways to regulate companies that provide the service. People familiar with the matter said the regulators were most interested in looking at Amazon’s resiliency and backup systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2018

With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard , qualified security assessors are going to be in more demand and can offer tokenization as one way of achieving compliance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Nicolas Dinh , chief operating officer of year-old Canadian financial startup STACK , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the key forms of fraud that nascent mobile financial services firms face and how companies can leverage security technologies and partnerships to gain customers’ trust. Partnering With Established Players.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The gateway, which was founded in China , will allow users to buy cryptos via credit card, wire transfer and more. Compliance is actually one of the biggest barriers to entry for small businesses in any highly regulated industry,” the company wrote in a blog post. There is no indication this trend will stop or reverse.

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2023

But compliance deadlines are tiered. June 28, 2023, based on the Code of Federal Regulations and the March 30 publication). 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.

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Abrigo

JULY 13, 2023

Avoid fraud losses from pig butchering scams FinCrime professionals looking to prevent pig butchering scams in the age of cryptocurrency can follow these steps to tighten security. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Takeaway 1 Investment fraud schemes known as pig butchering scams contributed to $3.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The world of payments processing will be a very different place by the end of 2020 than it was at the beginning — one where securing transactions will take on a new priority for merchants and consumers alike. Barclays Transact aims to help merchants make online transactions simpler, safer and compliant with the upcoming SCA regulations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

It also requires finding faster ways to securely address customer identification program (CIP) obligations and know your customer (KYC) requirements. Instead, the company uses credit and debit cards, bank transmission and mobile wallets like Apple Pay or Android Pay to fund transfers. Nazzaro asked. Digitizing Identity Verification.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The finance ministry in India passed a new regulation saying that companies with sales of more than ?50 50 crores (about $7 million) will have to offer customers electronic payment modes like debit cards, powered by RuPay, according to a report by LiveMint. . The new regulation went into effect on Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Partnering with FinTechs that have lax security creates very real issues: Criminals could abuse open banking-powered payment apps to launder money, for example, or take over accounts and steal victims’ funds. The federal entity is charged with monitoring the U.S. Even if your products are not covered per FinCEN in the U.S.,

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The CFPB has issued a final rule amending Regulation Z to address the discontinuation of the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) that is currently used by many creditors as the index for calculating the interest rate on credit cards and other variable-rate consumer credit products. Change in index. Dollar LIBOR indices. (The

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

PCI compliance is vitally important for businesses that process credit cards. The standards put forth by the PCI Security Standards Council – the PCI Data Security Standards – offer a framework for ensuring data security, and they must be followed in order to avoid fines and other penalties. Gearing up for GDPR.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions.

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American Banker

MAY 6, 2024

Big national retailers will capture all the financial benefits from proposed reductions in swipe fees, while consumers will be left with fewer benefits programs and less secure transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“Joining forces with INFORM, we help our customers speed up the adoption of strong customer authentication for safer online purchases,” Gabriele Boni, global service line cards director at SIA, said in a statement on Thursday (Nov. The initiative will be powered by INFORM’s RiskShield, an advanced risk evaluation solution. billion.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2020

While chip cards are becoming a mainstay at brick-and-mortar retail checkouts, gas pump payment technology lags behind. gas station owners until October of this year to upgrade pumps to accept EMV chip cards, rejecting a deadline extension request from the Merchant Advisory Group. Visa and Mastercard have given U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Slow compliance checks and sluggish processing times are commonplace, especially on the legacy systems still used by many banks around the world. Automating Compliance. Most customers bypass dealing with merchants entirely when trying to stage chargeback fraud, with 76 percent of cardholders going directly to the payment card issuer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this week’s B2B Data Digest, PYMNTS dives into new research about small businesses’ data security and cybersecurity efforts. 60 percent of SMBs said they don’t follow PCI DSS or HIPPA rules when storing customer credit card and banking information , according to new research from Clutch.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

The rapid growth of cryptocurrency has come with closer scrutiny and a call for tighter anti-money-laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC) regulations. This push for regulations hasn’t come without controversy. Some think they go too far. Friction is dependent on the use case,” he said.

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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. What data must be collected?

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

with an app and debit card, is expanding its range of services into the realm of cryptocurrency trading with a big assist from Paxos. With Paxos Crypto Brokerage, companies can leverage our expertise and regulatory compliance to easily and securely integrate crypto into their applications.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The EU’s PI licensing requirements are especially stringent, with strict requirements on PI infrastructure, shareholder qualifications, Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML policies and information security programs. To date, only 10 companies have obtained the license in Luxembourg.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently issued a new regulation on the requirements, including how AML staff will access the information through a new federal beneficial ownership information (BOI) registry. This is in line with the current CDD regulations. Effective Jan. More is expected on this later.

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