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Banks Turn To 3D Secure 2.0 To Fight Fraud

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Recent reports indicate an uptick in fraudsters targeting large FIs, and headlines surrounding security breaches and cyberattacks fill the news on a near-daily basis. Visa and Mastercard designed the 3DS protocols and provide them under the names Verified by Visa and Mastercard Secure Code. The evolution of payment protection.

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Bitcoin Daily: Luxembourg Passes Blockchain Bill; Overstock tZERO Volume Sluggish

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The company issued 26 million TZROP last August during its security token offering (STO). And Luxembourg has passed a bill to amend an existing securities law so that it includes blockchain. Luxembourg had already passed a bill to legally issue “dematerialized securities” in April 2013 through an amendment to a 2001 securities law.

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PingPong To Enter Europe Via $113M Investment

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Earlier this year , Luxembourg passed a bill to amend an existing securities law so that it includes blockchain. According to CoinDesk , the country’s parliament passed Titled Bill 7363 to “provide greater certainty for investors and make the transfer of securities more efficient by reducing the number of intermediaries,” the chamber said.

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations

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At the time of the black swans in 2001 and 2008, it was hard to tell anything positive was coming out of them. The business model isn’t completely figured out, or the technology to support it isn’t there, or people aren’t ready socially. But when the dotcom bust happened in 2001, our innovations also died.

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GoHealth Surges 20 Pct After IPO Raises More Than $913M

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The successful IPO proved to be a boon for GoHealth, which had expected to raise $751 million, while also putting it within striking distance of the $935 million recently raised by ZoomInfo Technologies. The online health insurance brokerage, founded in 2001, got a major boost with the passage of Obamacare a decade ago.

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Cloud Payment Processor Volante Teams With Goldman Sachs On Digital Transaction Banking

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Volante Technologies Inc. , Built from scratch in the cloud, the Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking Platform was crafted to provide secure and easy access for corporate clients, Volante said. “In Uday Thakur , Volante’s chief technology officer, said it’s a two-way street. the FinTech software company, announced Wednesday (Sept.

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Bringing medical and gaming tech to mobile fraud protection

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San Francisco-based Arxan Technologies, which got its start in 2001 providing security tools to protect gaming and medical-device applications, says financial services companies are one of the fastest-growing sectors seeking help in barricading their mobile apps from hackers.