PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. Virtual cards can improve accounts payable (AP) processes, benefiting both buyers and suppliers by streamlining day-to-day payments, and providing greater control over cash flows.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to hustle to secure portions of various federal coronavirus relief funding, the commercial card industry is finding itself in a position to support SMBs and their cash flow needs, too. Boost Finds A Surge In Corporate Card Interest. Visa Fuels Supplier Card Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix wrote a blog post about the benefits of gift cards for restaurants, which can help ease the burden many are facing during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The answer for many has been simple: Promote gift cards.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

FIs were fined more than $17 billion in penalties between 2009 and 2019 for improper AML procedures, for example, including major players like Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. This gives merchants the evidence they need to dispute chargebacks when credit card companies approach them to recoup their losses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Providing robust services via mobile channels is especially important now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused businesses to operate remotely and consumers to stay at home as much as possible. The need to secure open banking has only grown as financial criminals have stepped up to exploit disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, he added.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The September AML/KYC Tracker examines the latest fraud challenges and efforts to ensure tight security and compliance. . How Mobile Financial Startups Can Bridge the Security Gap. Strong AML procedures, for example, require analyzing and detecting meaningful patterns in vast collections of data. Around the AML/KYC Worl d.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many companies are becoming interested in replacing paper check payments with those conducted via virtual cards or other means, according to Meitra Aycock , senior vice president of corporate payment operations at B2B payments solutions provider Comdata. How Virtual Cards Help Build Better Construction Pr ocurement.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

More states require greater disclosure and control over what banks and card processors can charge. For example, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ) overdraft loan rule is expected to be enacted and go into effect in late 2025. As such, the National Security Agency (NSA ) is calling for banks to be compliant by 2030.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

And the farmer who uses drones to help monitor operations – yet may not be able (or might not know how) to take steps needed to secure his or her server – is rendered vulnerable. Despite the advent of chip technology in credit cards, which has improved security, bad actors continually look to circumvent systems in place.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

Retailers are retailers, not security experts. Too often, their best efforts can create friction at the point of sale for consumers, which leads to shopping cart abandonment and lost revenue, all while feeding the illusion of “too much security.”. There’s never ‘too much’ security,” Grant said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Westlake has already sent several million dollars over the RTP network during the pandemic, according to Westlake’s Director of Accounting Operations Raul Alvarez. As with any payment method, fraud attacks and human errors can upend customer experiences unless companies have strong security strategies in place. Contingency Planning.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Stitch Fix Kids , for example, sends out a selection of kids’ clothing each month, while GiftLit focuses on curated children’s books. Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. While QuickBooks is piloting card payments on invoices powered by PayPal , Airwallex is readying the launch of its own corporate card — both physical and virtual — designed to enable cross-border payments. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This revenue free fall could result in 100,000 restaurants nationwide closing either temporarily or permanently, with 40 percent of all restaurant operators unsure whether they can survive six months into the future. Social distancing guidelines, stay-at-home orders and mandated dining room closures around the U.S. The Fraud Threats Of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of a successful attack aren’t isolated to its target. It’s all in the name of siphoning company cash from accounts payable operations, and experts say the threat will continue to increase.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Erik Dyson, co-founder of natural disaster response nonprofit All Hands and Hearts– Smart Response , and Lori Sylvia, its finance manager, recently spoke with PYMNTS about relief workers’ payment pain points, how card-based solutions have helped to safely disburse funds and the ways the offering has relieved both budget planning and financial woes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This includes upgrading digital security measures, but the resurgence of brick-and-mortar commerce has required upgraded technologies to accept contactless payments and mobile wallets. These wallets are connected to familiar debit or credit cards, the details of which must also be kept safe from enterprising fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

In the inaugural edition of the Next-Gen Payroll Tracker® , a partnership with ADP® , PYMNTS examines these trends and technologies and the role they can play in improving workers’ financial security and sense of wellbeing. The government turned to a solution that is gaining popularity in the private sector: prepaid pay cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Six key elements are examined: business strategy, management and operations, growth and marketing, getting paid, making payments and protecting employees and customers. Last week, Mastercard expanded its Digital-First Card Program to access card data in a speedy, secure manner.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In a world where payments become more invisible the more digital they become, there’s never been a better opportunity to consider new ways to enable the digital transformation of financial services in a secure and compliant way. Payments Security As A Digital Business Enabler. Or watch its digital disruption. Sophisticated Threats.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. After adjusting for risk and cost, individual securities and loans perform approximately the same. Securities add no long-term value while loans contribute about 10% ( HERE ) to value. Why is that?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. The latter method works by sending a cardholder an email, advertising the next-generation Samsung or iPhone for just $1, for example. Consumers are advised to call billers or card providers directly to stop such charges. Data-Rich Defenses.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Afterpay does not perform a hard credit check on users, but it can still affect credit if users have a credit card as the form of payment connected to their Afterpay account or if they fail to pay back their loans. For example, one time in college, at a point where I had extremely minimal supplemental income, I needed (wanted?)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

“Consumers expect checkout to be frictionless, fast and secure,” Gaines explained. “It the process is clunkier than they might expect that we have opportunities to actually delight them by giving them options that will speed that process and make it faster, more secure and more frictionless.”. for example.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new year has begun, but the pandemic continues to throw financial and operational curveballs at banks, businesses and their consumers regarding how they conduct daily tasks or routine payments. consumers now count themselves as “ debit-centric ” users, a sizable jump over the 33 percent who said the same about credit cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Beware the credit card test. There may be no escaping credit card fraud, as it comes in one form or another. Overall, one subset of card fraud is on the rise: Last year, Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab said credit card testing was up triple-digit percentage points on an annualized basis.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Digital identity has become a crucial part of the telecommunications industry as the proliferation of smartphones and the personal data they hold makes security paramount. Such security methods can be critical to preventing fraud that targets mobile users, of which one of the most prevalent types is SIM swap fraud. It's that easy.”.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 27, 2023

For example, ISO 20022 defines the elements of a real-time payment, what constitutes a beneficial owner, or what happens during a transfer of securities for collateral (below). For example, ISO 20022 provides a set of messages (you can download HERE ) to handle ATM transactions, fraud, account names, and time periods.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. And likewise, knowing when to hold back.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

Commercial cards are tricky. While they may be instrumental in helping companies manage cash when their employees travel for work, commercial cards aren’t the top payment rail of choice for suppliers, so companies often pay invoices another way. But depending on how the commercial card is used, these figures vary greatly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

The German payment processing company’s operating performance in Europe and the Americas was far worse than previously known, according to a report from KPMG, the Netherlands-based global accounting firm, obtained by the newspaper. For example, two years ago when Wirecard’s stock market valuation topped 24 billion euros ($26.9

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Keeping customers' digital payment data safe and secure is a critical part of doing business in the digital economy, and following Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance guidelines is an effective way for firms to accomplish this. Carlson pointed to HealPay’s over-the-phone card payment compliance offerings as an example.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Social Security number (SSN) was never meant to get this much attention. In a wide-ranging discussion, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS’ Karen Webster discussed the brave new world of identity security and verification, and what those terms mean when it should be assumed that all of your data has been compromised.

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FICO

APRIL 7, 2022

This blog discusses another crucial aspect of financial services, which is secure digital banking and the fundamental duty of banks to make customers feel that their assets are safe. Customers expect financial institutions to provide an ample amount of security and protection. Bank of America [Example]. "We

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