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PayU Taps Feedzai To Protect Its LATAM Payment Networks

PYMNTS

Online payment tech company PayU is teaming up with cyber-fraud prevention firm Feedzai to beef up its network protections in a key global market, the companies announced on Wednesday (July 29).

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Deep Dive: Striking A Balance In Digital ID Security

PYMNTS

Experiencing such gains comes with risks, however, as digital IDs have presented new and underexplored avenues for fraud. The country was eager to adopt digital governmental services with the launch of an online tax payment service in 2000 and a national digital ID system in 2002. More than 4.5

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IdentityMind Global Appoints Business-Tech Vet To Board

PYMNTS

. “IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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Black Magic Slight-of-Hand: Trading an $11 Billion Fraud Problem for a $12 Billion One in the Post-EMV U.S. Market

Javelin Strategy & Research

Based on previous experiences overseas, it is expected that EMV will eliminate counterfeit card fraud, while removing the incentive for criminals to compromise card data from POS merchants. Yet, in our attempts to anticipate fraud after EMV is broadly adopted, we are again putting ourselves in a position to be misled.

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eBay/PayPal: What Everyone Missed

PYMNTS

Back then, only the very, very large merchants had merchant accounts and could accept credit card payments online. They looked around for places that had a large concentration of senders and receivers online and a use case for payments that needed a digital upgrade. Three years later, in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5

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How Interac e-Transfer Won The Ubiquity Game In Canada

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Interac ’s AVP of Online Products and Platforms Peter Maoloni explains how the landscape left a perfect opening for the company’s latest offering. Interac started out in the P2P space back in 2002. They were lower risk and invited less fraud. The original Interac solutions eliminated some of that hopping.

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