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MonetaGo, GUUD Team On Secure Transactions

PYMNTS

MonetaGo , which specializes in blockchain technologies, and GUUD Company , which focuses on making international trade smooth, have teamed up on international financial transaction security, MonetaGo announced in a press release. Both companies are based in Singapore. Going paperless has to happen.”.

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Uber Faces Fine From France For 2016 Data Breach

PYMNTS

20) that it fined Uber $460,000 over its 2016 data breach that exposed the data on 57 million customers and drivers across the world. According to a report in Moneycontrol.com , the French Data Protection Authority said the data breach could have been prevented by implementing “certain elementary security measures.”

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Biometrics Beats Blockchain at Bank Innovation 2016

Bank Innovation

Eleven companies were awarded slots in the DEMOvation Challenge, which took place yesterday here at Bank Innovation 2016, our annual first-quarter event. They were: Asignio – authentication solution Autobooks – payments and accounting software for Fis Bankfacil – Sao Paulo-based secured Read More.

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Things worth reading: 20th October 2016

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include … California prosecutors open new front in Wells Fargo scandal Security breaches feared in up to 3.2

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Digital Security 2016: At The Crossroads Of Biometrics, EMV And Mobility?

PYMNTS

It’s been a busy 12 months since the last Money20/20, as new technologies and threats have disrupted the security space time and time again. Similarly, the continued steady global increase in the use of mobile devices helped fuel the development and release of new tools to security companies, as well as access to richer, deeper user data.

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Uber Gets Fined By UK, Dutch Regulators For 2016 Data Breach

PYMNTS

27) for the data breach in 2016 that impacted millions of users. The fines stem from a data breach in 2016 in which the names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses of 57 million users around the globe were compromised. We’re pleased to close this chapter on the data incident from 2016,” Uber said in a statement to Reuters. “As

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Top 10 Blockchain Headlines of 2016

Bank Innovation

Blockchain—possibly the buzziest of buzzwords in 2016. The world saw the rise of new enterprise blockchains, how the technology might be used to transport gold, to safely move perishable items like pork through a supply chain, and most importantly for those of us in the fintech trenches, we saw banks, Read More.