PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These approaches could even prove to be more secure than knowledge-based authentication (KBA) measures because information such as PINs can be stolen, while behavioral patterns are much harder to mimic. One way FIs can protect themselves is to take advantage of processor- and network-level transaction monitoring. 3D Secure 2.0

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

And, indeed, this week’s Blockchain Tracker continues its coverage of ongoing tests and trails of blockchain solutions. However, blockchain solutions are slowly moving from testing to real-world application, with two solutions making the giant leap from pilot phase into the market. Testing Continues.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And, as Boku ’s Head of Identity Stuart Neal told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, the biggest names in the game – Apple, Google, Amazon and the like – have had vast resources at their disposal to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and other security tools to create frictionless checkouts in a fairly secure way. The less good news?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Some companies have put their faith into distributed ledger solutions , believing the tech could be a major part of the path to more efficient payments — but not everyone has their eyes on the blockchain. Reducing Out-of-Network Medical Bills. Better combines automation with human expertise to cut down on healthcare costs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Making sure the transaction risk analysis tools attached to online payments can swiftly determine their legitimacy is thus critically important, said Arjun Kakkar, vice president of strategy and operations for global identity verification solutions company Ekata , in a recent PYMNTS interview. Regulators such as the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Matt Sample, VP of Manufacturing Operations at AmerisourceBergen , commented in a release that, “the MediLedger pilot’s strength is that it’s a cross-industry effort to explore the use of a blockchain network to enable the interoperability required by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requirements in 2023.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. networks are safe for users, much like U.S. As well, the 21-page report found that 5G “security goals are underspecified,” among other problems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

To that end, Trulioo said Wednesday that it has launched the first Know Your Customer (KYC) solution that connects to two dozen mobile network operators (MNOs), covering 1.8 Traditional methods of online authentication don’t capture trusted identities as well as they once did, he said. “We billion mobile users across the globe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

That feeling motivated him to become part of the solution. The Identity Challenge. The basic problem, Némethi noted, comes down to identity. But more importantly, the more the system is used and the larger the network of trust becomes, the better the system runs, because there are more touch points to create an identity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

To that end, Trulioo said Wednesday that it has launched the first Know Your Customer (KYC) solution that connects to two dozen mobile network operators (MNOs), covering 1.8 Traditional methods of online authentication don’t capture trusted identities as well as they once did, he said. “We billion mobile users across the globe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

While the fraud ecosystem continues to rapidly develop and advance, big data may prove itself to be a strong weapon in combatting fraud. Unlike mass-registered fake accounts, they contain valuable information such as financial data, and their activities are less likely to raise the suspicion of security solutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s said to be the answer to the world’s food safety and digital identity problems. In January, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported worldwide spending on blockchain solutions would increase to $2.1 Some 750 such networks , they said, were provisioned in the first two weeks of that launch. billion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It was not designed to protect data or identities or even generate good identities. Volmar said that one solution is the private internet, where the web “cannot intermix with … computers’ private lines. Like other permissioned distributed ledger networks, scale is always a challenge. Nor can email intermix with it.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Fraudsters can also carefully hoard a cache of stolen bank account data, credit and debit card information, Social Security numbers and other details to impersonate legitimate customers, using these details outright or cobbling them together to perpetrate identity theft, new account fraud and gain entry to other platforms.

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FICO

JANUARY 10, 2023

Synthetic Identities and Application Fraud. For that they need two things – automation and an unlimited supply of fake consumer identities. We’ll come to the automation later, but the creation of synthetic identities allows for almost unlimited variations by subtly altering a name or address or other attribute many, many times.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2017

It is now crucial to have multiple layers of protection across your self-service network. GPS technology can prove particularly helpful in tracking the location of an ATM that is removed from its installed site. This emphasises the fact that one of the most testing aspects of ATM security today is the need to fight on several fronts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The headlines in recent weeks may have trumpeted China’s push toward becoming a world leader in the blockchain space, with government (and thus likely unlimited financial) backing stirring excitement, and where crypto prices (cryptos, of course, run on blockchain) rose, and then proved, to put it mildly, as volatile as ever.

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CB Insights

MARCH 19, 2019

5G is set to enhance connectivity across networks. 5G technology will enable wider network coverage, more stable internet connections, and faster data transfer speeds (from 4G’s 1Gbps to 10Gbps). It will also allow far more mobile devices to access networks simultaneously. Get the entire 31-page What is 5g?

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

The data stems from all the platforms in the Google arsenal, from Google Maps to email (we mean Gmail, of course), among others, each a treasure trove of data, and that data is valuable to not just Google, but the people who find Google valuable (after all, it sports the world’s biggest online ad network, with $79 billion in revenues last year).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

The familiarity and high comfort levels with mobile phone usage has led to them becoming an increasingly significant part of identity system infrastructure.” In Africa, for example, mobile birth registrations are gaining traction. Societal benefits also accrue with mobile access and financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

But there was also at least one somewhat delightful outcome – and it turned out to be the solution to the cascading series of problems unleashed by the attempted malaria remedy. It was a solution that no one could have foreseen, summed up in two words: Cat paratroopers. Living Well Is the Best Revenge (And Venmo Can Help You Prove It).

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Javelin Strategy & Research

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

My focus will be on finding the next Check-21 like innovation in which everyone wins, because The Check 21 Act proved that this is possible. In my Javelin work I frequently analyze our proprietary data to search for the elusive “win-win”. I’ll provide one more example of the elusive win-win innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Look for a surge in signups for identity monitoring services, and also the technologies that – at the point of transaction – help prove you are who you say you are … and that it’s you doing the saying. The Series 3 Watch is having problems connecting to LTE networks, which means that at times the gadgets can’t use cellular services.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JUNE 6, 2016

I have to give a presentation about putting identity on the blockchain, even though no-one seems entirely clear what “identity” means or, for that matter, what “blockchain” means. Lots of people seem to think that putting identity on the blockchain is a good thing to. First, the identity problem.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In the battle for your digital identity, the banks do have some advantages. This article asks if there is a specifically British problem with identity fraud, what with identity fraud being something like half of all fraud in the UK. But back to identities. Identity is broken, people. They haven’t really ID’d you.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Shopify has announced in 2019 already its Shopify Fulfillment Network and committed 1 billion USD over five years into the product. But are they? C) Shop pay installments. Furthermore, the merchant will receive the full amount immediately.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

When the internet debuted to the public, no one could have foreseen how important identity would become over the next few decades. Identity is becoming more and more of a problem, and not just because so many of them have been stolen thanks to data hacks and lackluster security. But it’s one of those jokes that isn’t really a joke.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

When the internet debuted to the public, no one could have foreseen how important identity would become over the next few decades. Identity is becoming more and more of a problem, and not just because so many of them have been stolen thanks to data hacks and lackluster security. But it’s one of those jokes that isn’t really a joke.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Shopify has announced in 2019 already its Shopify Fulfillment Network and committed 1 billion USD over five years into the product. But are they? C) Shop pay installments. Furthermore, the merchant will receive the full amount immediately.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals and enterprises involved in criminal financial activity. Taking a single selfie just isn’t enough to ensure your customer’s identity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Microsoft and Mastercard share something of a joint vision to build pathways to financial security and help improve consumers’ and SMB owners’ lives around the world, said Moore — by buttressing startups that can create the solutions to accomplish that. Building Blockchain And The Identity Of Things . It lends itself to car parts.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

To that end, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just updated its guidelines — spanning four volumes — on digital identity services. The general theme here is to use an architecture and processes to shepherd digital identities. Your security question with your dog’s name? They ain’t cutting it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

Twelve years later, Hall has brought this military experience to bear in the business world as Founder and CEO of identity verification firm ID.me. Once, at the end of their tour, they took out nine out of 10 top targets in a vehicle bomb network that was killing more than a thousand civilians a month. Then, there are trust issues.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 24, 2023

This proved to be a winning combination of personalization. Bankers need to tread carefully here and NOT run the application on a work computer or network. Solutions for customer problems are generated in real-time, specific to the customer’s exact situation. On Day 8, new deposits cumulatively went over $1.1

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Thomas Martin, founder and president of NephoSec, which performs pen tests, says the easiest way to gain access to a network is through social engineering attacks like phishing or even smishing, an attack through SMS messages on a mobile phone. That’s where a third party like a solutions vendor may help community banks, he adds.

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Vitalik Buterin

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Problem: create a blockchain design that maintains Bitcoin-like security guarantees, but where the maximum size of the most powerful node that needs to exist for the network to keep functioning is substantially sublinear in the number of transactions. A solution to code obfuscation would be very useful to blockchain protocols.

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FICO

MARCH 22, 2022

Some fraudsters are looking for a quick return on their investment and simply transfer available funds to accounts in their control – often through the use of networks of money mules. It can be a long and distressing process for a legitimate accountholder who can’t prove their account ownership. Understanding criminal networks.

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