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Death, Taxes And Digitizing Insurance Payments 

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If death and taxes are sureties, insurance payments rank up there, as people insure homes and autos and apartments against any number of calamitous scenarios. It is now social media that cements the carrier/insured relationship. like paying over the phone using an IVR system that will securely capture credit card information.

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Regulatory Tracker: Sandboxes Gain, While Cryptos Wane

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Here in the United States, tax season looms, of course, which may put additional pressure on cryptos. The specific directive from William Galvin, the state’s head securities regulator, commands that those firms abandon the sale of what have been termed “unregistered securities.” The firms named include Mattervest, Inc.,

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Let’s Talk About European Attitudes Toward US Tech Firms

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technological might when it comes to social media, eCommerce and the digital world. Peter Thiel, the technology investor who co-founded PayPal, recently described some of the motivation behind the European Union’s push to put more taxes and regulation on digital firms as jealousy of the relative success of U.S.

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Is Sale Likely To Be Snapchat’s Next Move?

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Beloved by younger millennials and up-and-coming Generation Z members, Snapchat is the little social media engine that could in an era when it seemed the social media die had all been cast (and where Facebook won most of the rolls). That just good old-fashioned operational costs. Are Apple Or Tencent The Answer?

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Screen Scraping And The Dilemma Of Data

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In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Ralf Ohlhausen, business development director at PPRO Financial, said, “From the outset, none of the banks would have been very excited about the prospect of letting third parties access their customer data, which is quite understandable of course.”

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SCA Preparedness — A Fizzle In The Making?

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As noted in this space this past week, SCA has goals that are laudable by any measure, as the SCA requirement seeks to reduce fraud and make online card-not-present (CNP) transactions more secure. The economy is growing, and tax refunds may have also helped boost spend. Retail Sales: Rally 1.6 Facebook: Data as a weapon?

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Europe Grabs B2B Payments Fraud (Small And Large) Headlines

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Direct contact with the real supplier stymied the scammer’s efforts – which, of course, included gaining accessing the would-be victim’s email account and grabbing the aforementioned details. In a bit of granular detail, the website healthsecurityit.com reported that the breach involved PHI, PII and tax information for those individuals.

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