Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that its customer, AXIS Securities Limited, India, has launched voice-based trading as part of TCS BaNCS Digital, and is among the early adopters of this technology to offer such a capability to its customers.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

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MAY 27, 2022

We’ll then move to the federal level, seeking regulatory guidance as to whether digital tokens are securities under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or commodities contracts over which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has regulatory jurisdiction. State Regulations. SEC Regulation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The National Standardization Group for Facial Recognition Technology was launched last week by Hong Kong-based SenseTime and 27 other tech companies. Its goals include developing standards for safety and accuracy, as well as supervising the fast development of the technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. In another nod toward privacy, Microsoft wants to see government regulation of facial recognition technology. That would include rules touching on how and when the tech could be used. Facial Recognition’s Need for Legislation?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

KRAsia reports that in Singapore, a temperature-taking tool, underpinned by artificial intelligence (AI) — called iThermo — has utilized thermal and laser technology to take the temperature of people as they walk past the tool. The pandemic may give rise to life connected by technology in ways we never imagined but will find necessary.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

However, Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, executive director of the UAE’s National Electronic Security Authority, told CNBC that the country has been working with big tech platforms, especially Facebook-owned WhatsApp, on national security initiatives. Of course, technology also brings with it security concerns.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017. Payments chaos.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

With cyberattacks on the rise, corporate victims find themselves battling it out with cyber insurance companies over protection from the damage done by security breaches. For example, the National Bank of Blacksburg in Virginia sued Everest National Insurance Company earlier this year after the bank was hit by cyberattacks in 2016 and 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

s National Health Service as well as to 400,000 businesses worldwide, including Pixar, Ford and Toshiba. It also provides IT security to small and mid-sized businesses. tech firms ARM Group and Imagination Technologies were also recently purchased by foreign investors. billion in 2017. assets in the past few years.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A wide range of biometric solutions are being used to develop national identification systems around the world. Even though biometrics offer notable security advantages, they do come with risks. India began experimenting with the technology 10 years ago when it launched its national ID system, the Aadhaar program.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities. The first EMV card was developed in 1994, but the technology did not begin circulating worldwide until the new millennium.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But it was a Bellevue, Washington-based beauty and wellness industry enterprise software firm that secured the largest funding this week, coming in at $160 million. Zenoti said it fuels over 12,000 companies in more than 50 nations. landed funding rounds. Online invoicing discounting company M1xchange has notched $4.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. McDowell said that he expects these and other new technologies to soon replace more traditional methods of authentication and verification, such as passwords. It’s EMV all over again.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Created in 2017, the API Standardization Industry Group has begun developing an application program interface (API) standardization “playbook” to help enhance support for payments and the business needs of financial institutions, companies, FinTechs and other industry stakeholders and participants. The question remains.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Government procurement can bolster the strength of local small businesses (SMBs), and provide an example for technology adoption in areas such as eInvoicing and electronic payments. government business.” government business.” A report released last year from the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

billion in 2017 to a grand total of $434.9 In the November Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS examines the forces pushing IoT adoption forward, the security risks holding it back, and how public and private sectors seek to strike the right balance. billion by 2023. Around The IoT World. These concerns aren’t unfounded, either.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

This virus has disabled some of our technology systems and our central office phone system. The emergency declaration allows the state to access resources from the state’s national guard, technology office, state police and other organizations, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

According to an article via the MIT Technology Review , this will be the year that blockchain becomes “boring,” with innovative projects that will “bear fruit” this year even amid the declines seen last year in the sector, and in cryptocurrencies. This, said the Review , will be the way that blockchain becomes normal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

That company, which provides technology for facial recognition to clients in sectors like retail and government, is reportedly in talks to raise roughly $2 billion. In order to provide this technology, the firm uses facial scans held in a Ministry of Public Security database taken from legal identification files on about 1.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

in the early 2000s had much of the hoped-for effect: By 2017, both Mastercard and Visa had reported that counterfeit fraud was more than halved. The PYMNTS January 2020 Digital Identity Tracker examines the issues, as well as advances in mobile biometric security, “deepfake” detection and more. The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Symantec Security, a leading security research firm, raised this concern in a recent blog post. Called Trojan.Bachosens , the malicious software was predominantly used by nation-state actors, which confused researchers working on the case. Further investigation revealed a 2017 equivalent of the hobbyist hackers of the 1990s.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Reuters , citing cybersecurity researchers, reported that the attack was part of a global hacking campaign initiated by the Ministry of State Security in China aimed at stealing intellectual property and corporate secrets. Visma made the hack public to raise awareness about the campaign.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

When our small businesses suffer, our nation suffers, so it is incumbent upon all to ensure that we’re supporting the businesses who are the lifeblood of our economy and pillars of our communities,” said Mastercard President Michael Miebach in the release. “We In 2017, Mastercard committed $500 million to create the Mastercard Impact Fund.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Smart contracts and blockchain company Symbiont has hired a renowned cryptographer to enhance the security of its technology. 1) that Dr. Lisa Yin has joined Symbiont as its chief security officer and chief cryptographer to develop security and privacy solutions. The company announced Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Last month, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) announced a collaboration that aims to promote credit unions’ participation in the SBA small business lending program, via webinars and training events aimed at broadening the credit union sector’s small business lending efforts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Authenticating.com is working to combat identity fraud by combining different solutions to securely automate and outsource identity verification and fraud prevention as a service. According to a 2017 report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there have been $1.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These types of payment flows made up 5 percent or more of the gross domestic product (GDP) for 66 countries in 2019, reaching as high as 20 percent of GDP in nations like Haiti and Nepal. . Correspondent Banking . The Cost of Compliance . Correspondent banking is not the only way that money transfers can be conducted.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Approximately 2 percent to 5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) – $800 billion to $2 trillion – is laundered each year, according to a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Rethinking Security Strategies . Financial and Ethical Security Strategies.

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Cisco

AUGUST 9, 2022

In 2015, following a significant increase in nation state and hacktivist attacks on U.S. This was revised in 2017, and this consistent framework is intended to be able to help leadership and the board assess their preparedness and risk over time. These are mapped into categories and include: Technologies and Connection Types.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2019

Postal Service, the Social Security Administration, Veterans Affairs, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for example, ask questions of a new user and match their answers to information held in an individual’s credit file. Agencies like the U.S.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

I was chairing a panel where Romana Kumar, Head of Global Transaction Banking for the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), was discussing their trial of Ripple. Forget hours or days. Then they went to their corporate customers and said: “we’ve upgraded our payments systems and you’ll find it works faster and cheaper”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

While consumers love the (supposed) security, they hate the nuance of remembering what favorite dog or past college crush the password was framed around. percent in Q4 2017. percent in Q4 2017. percent in Q4 2017. percent in Q4 2017. percent in Q4 2017. percent in Q4 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But, a new report by cybersecurity company Thales e-Security suggests data breaches at financial institutions (FIs) are on the rise, and that information technology (IT) professionals who work for these firms are growing increasingly concerned about the issue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The latest research comes as the G7 nations prepare for a cross-border cyberattack simulation. Cyber experts at Onapsis said last week that 1 million SAP systems were found to be vulnerable to hacking as a result of a security flaw. PYMNTS runs through the data points of all these stories and research reports, plus more, below.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

In general, the department proposed to fuel more FinTech activity in the United States by loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape. The report , released in support of President Trump’s call to regulate the U.S. Re-examining Tradeoffs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

19th) that the deal covers “a broad range of products and technologies” in an agreement that is “long-term” in nature. As reported in December 2017, the company started up a lab in Beijing devoted to artificial intelligence (AI). And also that they would not do any harm to Chinese national security and national consumers’ interests.”.

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