Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2018

Payments provider Mastercard has issued a deadline for the availability of biometric authentication across its cards, stating that all customers will be able to use fingerprints or facial recognition for verification by April 2019.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Paay, a startup credit card database storing millions of transactions, has been unsecured for weeks and only now closed again, according to a TechCrunch report. A security researcher, Anurag Sen, accessed the files and estimated around 2.5 Mendlowitz said the company had told around 15 to 20 merchants about the lapse.

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MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. Samsung introduced its payments tool in 2015 with MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology as well as Near Field Communication (NFC), a newer technology. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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MARCH 4, 2020

Although the attack occurred in 2019, the company only now revealed that an unknown number of customers had been affected by the attack. Companies doing business in California are obligated to warn the state attorney general’s office of security breach incidents involving more than 500 Californians.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Nium , the global FinTech platform, announced in a press release emailed to PYMNTS that users will be able to make payments through Google Pay with its company Visa cards. The Google Pay partnership lets those cards work through many more payment terminals and options.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Retailers must protect customers’ card data from hackers who try to snatch payment details, and following best practices to ensure security requires adhering to the regulations established by the PCI SSC, a global payments industry forum. Compliance Complexities.

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APRIL 5, 2019

AeroGrow, maker of the at-home garden kit AeroGarden, has revealed that its website was infected with credit card scraping malware for more than four months. Upon learning of the incident, we immediately removed the malicious code and secured the website,” the company wrote in a letter to customers.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. In data coming into the end of the year, Risk Based Security said hackers had accessed 7.9 Data compromised included email addresses, Social Security numbers and bank information. The readings are pretty grim. At a high level, the numbers are staggering. Thousands of breaches.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Americans cut their credit card balances in August for the sixth consecutive month, the Federal Reserve System reported Wednesday (Oct. Revolving debt — mainly credit card debt — as reported by the central bank declined by $9.4 Economic forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg had, in the whole, predicted an increase in credit card spending.

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

But in hopes of hopping on the holiday bandwagon — and providing data-backed insight in the hottest payment trends for 2019 — allow us to offer this list of a dozen ways that consumers (and some businesses) are paying now, methods that promise to play big roles in 2019. 5: With Payment Cards. 10: With Contactless Cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Gift cards are a popular revenue stream for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), largely for the same reasons they are popular among retail businesses of all types: They bring in new customers, promote loyalty among existing customers and create additional revenues when customers exceed the value of their gift cards. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Now, in addition to car and personal loans on behalf of retail and institutional investors, Zopa will introduce savings accounts this week, to be followed by the addition of credit cards later this year. But it plans to avoid the interest-free introductory deals common among the nation’s credit card market.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. How Music Retailers Can Harmonize Security And Seamlessness. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

bank NatWest has started a three-month trial of a biometric credit card that will use a fingerprint in lieu of a PIN. 7, and it’s in tandem with Mastercard and the digital security company Gemalto. If the purchase is more than £100, then the card needs to be put into a terminal with the fingerprint as additional verification. .

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

14) that it is rolling out tap-to-pay functionality across its Chase Visa card portfolio, an initiative that will begin late this year and extend into 2019. said the rollout will be done on an ongoing basis, spanning when customers open up new accounts or have cards that are renewed. 1 card issuer in the U.S. –

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APRIL 30, 2020

Treasury will allow two financial technology companies to issue prepaid Visa cards loaded with coronavirus stimulus payments. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had said a more efficient distribution of government funds would be achieved through digital delivery and prepaid card providers. So far, the agency has delivered 89.5

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

That famous literary opener could apply to the mobile order-ahead (MOA) space in 2019. Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick has even secured $400 million to develop his new CloudKitchens concept, which rents fully equipped cooking spaces to delivery-only restaurants in major metros. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Welcome to the latest episode of our weekly wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, December 13, 2019.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Last year, credit card data was stolen from online stores hosted by eCommerce software, hosting and support company Volusion. Hackers breached Volusion servers and inserted malicious JavaScript code, which made its way onto customer store websites, where it recorded payment card details when they were entered into checkout forms.

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MARCH 12, 2020

And according to Jennifer Schroeder, executive vice president of product management at PULSE, prepaid and payroll cards are proving increasingly popular among forward-thinking employers. The Security Angle. As has been reported, the platform can help issuers manage, or restrict, transactions across groups of compromised cards.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Visa announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is rolling out enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. As part of the upgrade, Visa said it was enhancing its systems to support 3-D Secure 2.0,

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now as a last-minute Christmas present. billion in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5 percent in 2016. Another perennial challenge the industry faces is the ever-looming threat of data breaches.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

adults to possess a credit card , so the warp-speed adoption of mobile card apps has been a comparative blur. In surveying mobile card app usage for the December 2019 Bridging the Gap: Mobile Card App Adoption Report , PYMNTS found a vibrant, growing payments ecosystem. It took 70 years for a majority of U.S.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Bank of America (BofA) announced on Tuesday (June 25) that it’s launching a digital debit card, according to a release by the company. This digital debit card has the same protections and benefits of a physical debit card and is immediately available to use in the mobile app.

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MAY 13, 2019

These small entities are seeking to win trust despite not being established brands, but customers will only feel safe if they’re confident that their payment information will remain secure. . This month’s Deep Dive explores its key security risks and the ongoing efforts to mitigate them. . Security risks and defenses .

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Visa announced that since their inception, chip cards have reduced counterfeit fraud by 87 percent. . Chip cards are increasingly becoming the norm as usage and acceptance has continued to grow since the EMV standard was first introduced in 2011,” the company said. merchants dropped too, from the period of September 2015 to March 2019.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The increasing number of businesses using cards over cash could prompt some companies in the U.K. Contactless transactions using commercial credit cards surged nearly a fifth higher in 2019 than they had been prior, according to the U.K. subsidiary of HSBC, rising 24 percent.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To that end, Chase , the largest card issuer in the U.S., 14) that it’s rolling out tap-to-pay functionality across its Chase Visa card portfolio. The effort is broad and far-reaching, considering how more than 90 million debit and credit cards are wielded by Chase customers across the United States. said Wednesday (Nov.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act. Security challenges are mounting, too.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that new Medicare cards will be mailed out starting next month. The new cards are being issued to protect consumers from identity theft. With that in mind, Medicare is removing Social Security numbers from its cards and replacing them with a unique Medicare number.

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APRIL 4, 2019

The partnership will enable Octet’s customers to use WEX’s virtual credit cards to pay their suppliers. Octet and WEX will be looking to further facilitate seamless, efficient and secure supply chain payments,” Clive Isenberg, CEO of Octet said in a press release. M&A is a key component of WEX’s growth strategy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. percent innovating to improve business analytics.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Fabara officially joined Visa in September of 2019, coming from Amex, where he was president of its global services group. Now four months in, he told Webster that the idea of a secure and trusted payments ecosystem is part of Visa’s “corporate DNA.” And there’s the fact that consumers still love and use their physical cards.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. The inquiry could spell fresh regulatory trouble for the world’s two largest payments processors, which settled a protracted European Union antitrust probe in April this year over card fees. 1, 2004 and Jan.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The hotel said the data breach didn’t involve any password, financial or payment card information, and that all the guests who were affected were notified of the incident. The resort said it had upgraded its security to make sure a data breach like this one never happens again.

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