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Samsung Pay Launches Debit Card, Money Management

PYMNTS

Samsung introduced its payments tool in 2015 with MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology as well as Near Field Communication (NFC), a newer technology. Samsung Pay has increasingly grown in popularity, processing more than one billion transactions , almost double compared to 2018. That number was about 25 percent for U.S.

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Ex-NS8 CEO Charged With Defrauding Investors With Falsified Revenue

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Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) filed an “emergency action” against former NS8 Inc. As alleged in our complaint, Rogas falsely presented NS8 as a successful business by fabricating revenue figures and providing them to investors,” SEC Denver Regional Office Director Kurt L. 17) statement. Gottschall said in a statement.

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Changing the way money moves across Asia Pacific: Sibos 2018

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Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018! Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing.

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SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union’s Lesson In P2P Security

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While some larger financial institutions (FIs) have joined the platform, regional community banks and CUs account for 85 percent of Zelle’s participants. Amy Hsu, vice president of product and research, recently spoke with PYMNTS about how the CU makes its members’ Zelle transfers both seamless and secure. A P2P Balancing Act.

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SWIFT: Real-Time Payments Demands Real-Time Security And Compliance

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Security and compliance are also vital components in ensuring that payments are delivered safely and without delay. Safe, secure real-time cross-border payments becoming a reality relies on community involvement above all else. In the case of cross-border payments, these new ‘smart’ rails are in the form of a common standard.

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The Eight Retail Stories That Shaped 2018

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However, an awful lot is in fact different at the dusk of 2018 than it was at the dawn. The year 2018 saw massive changes in where consumers shop, how they pay, and what goods and services they want in their carts. Yet, as 2018 was coming to a close, Facebook was hit with just a bit more bad news. The Facebook Follies.

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Global Remittances May Fall By $109B In 2020

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“Migrant workers are among the hardest hit groups, with many facing scant job security and limited access to social assistances,” ADB economists James Villafuerte and Aiko Kikkawa Takenaka wrote in a blog posted on the Philippines-based organization’s website.

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