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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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How Smaller Financial Institutions Can Make the New Fed Debit Card Reg a Win for Customers

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In early October, the Federal Reserve finalized a rule, known as Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), that requires every debit card transaction to have access to two unaffiliated payment card networks. The Federal Reserve reported that 23% of debit card transactions were CNP in 2019.

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Shell Companies Eyed In Fraud At Aegean Marine

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1) that a probe by international auditors is underway, examining a fraud that could be $200 million in scope at Aegean Marine Petroleum Network , tied to shell companies that ostensibly did business with the shipping fuel firm. Of that number, 59 were tied to gift cards, memberships, IT equipment and furniture. A Bit Of Victory.

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A Debit-Enabled Fix To In-Store Checkout Abandonment

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Debit cardholders often choose this payment method because it is more secure than carrying cash — which cannot be recovered if lost — and may safeguard them against spending more than they have, which is not the case with credit cards. Rising generations show a keen interest in debit cards, according to a new report.

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

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Launched in the Ukraine a decade ago, the internet-based cybercriminal enterprise stole identities, compromised debit and credit cards and personal, financial and banking information and spread computer malware, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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FTC Awards $9.7M To Credit Card Billing Scam Victims

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Victims of an illegal credit card billing scam have started receiving checks from the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the operators of the illegal credit card scheme made unauthorized charges on the credit cards and debit cards of victims for internet services they didn’t get. billion.

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Stopping Faster Payments Fraud, Faster

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In the latest Data Drivers, Uri Rivner, head of Cyber Strategy and vice president of Business Development at BioCatch , stated that as countries around the world embrace faster payments, they may do well to heed some sobering statistics on fraud gleaned from the United Kingdom’s own experience. Data Point One: 300 Percent. In the U.K.,

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