PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. This marked the first real-time payments regulatory framework in the region that addressed all EU countries. The ECB sees TIPS as more than just another real-time payments solution, however.

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JULY 3, 2018

As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints. Meanwhile, he said, consumers are getting over their initial fears around contactless payments usage and security. Chargehound.

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JULY 22, 2019

Unfortunately, also adding heat this week was the world of fraudsters and hackers – with a few pretty sizable security blips and glitches. KeyBank’s Costly Payroll Fraud Problem . A loss for KeyCorp – but by far not the weeks’ biggest, or most explosive case of fraud. Starting with. Bulgaria’s Big Breach .

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Digital fraud continues to be one of the most pressing issues that marketplaces face today. Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Developments Around The Digital Fraud World. Account takeovers (ATOs), identity theft and phishing were found to be the most common methods of attack in this region.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. The initiative will be on hold until the government enacts new laws that would safeguard data security.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others. Those numbers look pretty different by region. Businesses worldwide cited insufficient ROI, security concerns, lack of budget and lack of knowledge as the top barriers to adopting AR. The global security concern figure is 87 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security. The Data Privacy Twist .

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

As bad as one might think the risks of cybercrime are (fraud, hacking, data breaches , customer and revenue loss, lawsuits and fines), the reality is probably worse. On the national level, at least, “we’ve been focused on [potential] attacks against critical infrastructure” since the late 1990s, he told Webster. Big Mindsets.

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MAY 19, 2017

Even as some countries move away from physical currency in favor of more modern payment methods, demand in larger nations means the Asia-Pacific region is still clinging to cash. With China and India driving economic growth, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are estimated to spend some $8.1 trillion in cash payments in 2015.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Kaspersky revealed that the malware, known as FinSpy or FinFisher, is a product usually sold to nation states and law enforcement agencies for surveillance. It appears that the hackers are targeting Middle Eastern politicians and United Nations officials in the region, opposition bloggers and activists, and regional news correspondents.

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JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. And accurately, he noted, doesn’t just mean they lock out fraud. Opportunity, he noted, abounds.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That sentiment was underscored earlier this month when South Korea said it would delist a number of altcoins from an exchange over privacy concerns – namely, the anonymous nature of the transactions are at odds with the goals of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which include combating money laundering and fraud.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The country was once a principal location for Wirecard's partner businesses in the region. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra also said on Sunday (Nov. 8) that three immigration officials had been formally charged and suspended for 90 days last month over Marsalek's travel records.

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JULY 30, 2019

Nearly 40 percent of them would consider leaving their current CUs because of inconvenient services or inability to address problems and data security concerns. Regional banks and credit unions have become vulnerable to digital competition from larger banks, which is why so much emphasis has been placed on innovation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Which is the subject for the PYMNTS Daily Data Dive 5-in-1 today: $3 Trillion | The amount the Fed’s regional banks process in payments per day. 30 | Number of “information disclosure” incidents reported by the Fed’s national cybersecurity team between 2011-2015.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

In terms of mechanics, the credit scoring software will use data spanning bank and corporate transactions, and Nikkei said the lenders would need to secure borrowers’ consent before accessing and using that data. The collaboration seeks to promote a “friction-free” digital identity and authentication services tied to fraud prevention.

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JULY 1, 2019

Entities such as the National Payments Corporation of India — an umbrella organization for operating retail payments in India — have been helping to guide electronic payments adoption. However, more developed nations have been relatively constrained by legacy technologies and entrenched ways of conducting commerce.

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MAY 2, 2016

New data uncovers just how much money is lost due to these attacks, as well as how much money corporations plan to spend both on cloud security and Internet of Things security as the threat of cyberattacks continues to rise. The Asia-Pacific region, however, is hot on its heels, with rapid growth forecasted for this time period.

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JULY 31, 2019

regions, cloud)? Tools such as the ABC National Risk Score in the US, which provides a general rating of cyber risk for benchmarking, and the FICO® Cyber Risk Score, which provides company- specific metrics, may be leveraged in combination to provide a directionally correct view of relative risk. Where does the vendor operate (e.g.,

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

In December of last year, the Malaysian National Bank, Bank Negara, issued a consultation document about their intention to allow eKYC in the applications process for a wide range of financial products. Improved approval time from days to minutes, providing easy-to-use and integrated security across the customer lifecycle.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. Securities and Exchange Commission has halted the trading of three companies based in Oregon after examining their balance sheets.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Consider the fact that, as noted in the most recent AML/KYC Tracker produced as a collaboration between PYMNTS and Trulioo , money laundering is estimated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to be an $800 million to $2 trillion-per-year problem, equivalent to 2 percent to 5 percent of the global GDP. The Crypto Factor.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As the PSR’s response to authorized push payment fraud moves towards becoming law, what will the results be? million stolen through fraud in the UK last year, payment scams (or authorised push payment fraud or APP scams) accounted for 41%. A quarter of all losses to payment fraud is under £100. And what can banks do?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

B2B payments, alternative SME finance, enterprise cybersecurity, data management and logistics all secured a financial boost — find out which startup scored the most in our breakdown below. Securing more than $2.5 Enterprise Security. B2B Payments. Alternative Lending. Capital Float. Data Managament. Plaid Technologies.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The report summarizes consumer complaints stored in the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database. Nearly half of these reported scams involved government imposters that falsely claimed to be from the IRS, Social Security Administration, other government agency to get victims to turn over money and/or personal information.

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JULY 19, 2019

Payroll Fraud Could Cost KeyCorp $90M. Cleveland-based regional banking firm KeyCorp disclosed a massive instance of fraud that could potentially come at a cost of $90 million. The company said in a K-8 filing that the fraud involved a “business customer” and that it was discovered “on or about” July 9.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Failure to meet AML/KYC requirement challenges can be costly for FIs, too, with regulators issuing heavy fines for lax security practices or failure to devote sufficient resources to oversight. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates the market for global money laundering is worth approximately $2 trillion per year.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

From a security standpoint, forcing customers into Western nomenclature can lead to missed OFAC specially designated nationals (SDN) list matches, and open-source information searches could be lost or overlooked. When customers have no legally issued ID, alternative know-your-customer policies are indispensable.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

This time of year has been no different for these seven startups, all of which have launched new products and features, fielded new investor funding, upped the security ante and, in the spirit of the holidays, generally worked toward payments peace on Earth. Weeks and hours whirl away, and there always seems to be something going on.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

. “PacNet, an international payments processor and money services business, has a lengthy history of money laundering by knowingly processing payments on behalf of a wide range of mail fraud schemes that target victims in the United States and throughout the world,” the Treasury wrote. According to the OFAC Acting Director John E.

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APRIL 28, 2017

This according to the latest volume of the Internet Security Threat Report published today by software company and security product provider Symantec. the nation most targeted for ransomware attacks — tend to respond to this form of cyberattacks. Lastly, Haley said that even with good security, ransomware can still happen.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

China’s Operation Fox Hunt has led to the arrest of 62 Chinese nationals abroad and the seizure of 10 billion yuan ($1.5 The Chinese ministry said their teams “successfully brought back 62 criminal suspects from 16 countries and regions, including Thailand and Cambodia.”.

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JULY 28, 2017

The regional court in Cologne gave Daniel K. million) because of the hack, with most of the costs coming from having to set up a national hotline for customer complaints and to pay security staff for weekend overtime. According to Reuters , the sentence came after the 29-year-old hacker — identified as Daniel K.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

The region’s chip card adoption rate jumped to 52.3 Europe Zone 1, which includes the UK, France and more than 30 other European nations, remained the region with the highest penetration of EMV technology with a slight increase from 83.5 per cent of cards issued, from 40.4 per cent, a rise of nearly a third.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

WhatsApp Pay began testing its service in that country earlier this year with reports of roughly one million users, processing roughly one million transactions per month, according to people close to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Whole Foods’ Expanding Footprint.

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JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. Because where there is high demand, there is the possibility of scale.

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