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Visa, MFS Africa Team To Take Mobile Wallets Cross-Border

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Since the rise of M-Pesa in 2007, mobile money wallets have become prevalent across Africa. And while that addition to the market has made many things possible for consumers in formerly cash-locked economies, there has been a persistent problem of limitations for users once they want to transact outside their home environment.

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Data Dive, Criminality Edition: Fingerprints And Wire Fraud And Money Laundering (Oh My!)

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Security solved. As it turns out, security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a darknet marketplace in which hackers are selling digital fingerprints. The site first emerged in fall of last year, when the creators started advertising it on forums where hackers sell stolen payment card details.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Much has been said about the wealth effect of those who held and hold stock market securities, and much has been written about income disparity. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt…. Mortgages ?

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EMV migration myths: three lessons for the US market

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This has posed problems, not least the fact it’s the only country in the world where counterfeit card fraud losses are rising. So what can the US market expect to happen after the liability shift? Counterfeit card fraud to drop. In the UK, losses from domestic counterfeit card fraud fell straight away.

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Moving Beyond The Paper Trail

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Sage noted that in a 2007 report, Celente financial research reported that there were 11 billion B2B transactions in the United States alone, and 70 percent of that tally was paid via paper checks. billion of that amount could be made through corporate cards. trillion on B2B interactions each year, and MasterCard has estimated that $1.8

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Mastercard Wins UK Ruling On Interchange Fees

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Mastercard is accused of setting interchange fees on consumer credit and debit card transactions that are anti-competitive and infringed U.K. That period was between 1992 and 2007, with the dates in the lawsuit showing “only a small period of overlap.”. “I retailers seeking about £1.2 billion in compensation over interchange fees.

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PSD2 Is Coming To Europe And Bringing Big Changes

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This latest measure follows the first Payment Services Directive, which was passed by the EU and took effect in late 2007. The earlier regulation was designed to increase competition in the European financial services market. This controversy speaks to larger security concerns surrounding the regulation. First Name*.