Remove blockchain Remove Cards Remove Fraud Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Blockchain Tracker: SEB’s New York Bridge To Stockholm, Credit Cards And Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

Blockchain may be building bridges quicker than expected. Quite possibly, the biggest blockchain news this week was that Swedish bank SEB announced that intends to build a blockchain channel between New York and Stockholm to enable customers to make real-time transfers, as soon as next year.

New York 175
article thumbnail

Real Time Heats Up In B2B, While Blockchain Gains Traction

PYMNTS

Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. That's an important distinction between what we're doing now and what we think we're going to be doing more of going forward, versus what it took with the card rails," he said. "We Rapyd Combats Fraud Across Payment Rails. Canada Taps Vocalink for Real-Time Rail.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Invoice Fraud Hits Microsoft?

PYMNTS

Even the mightiest of tech firms are not immune to invoice fraud. Engadget reported that Jeff Tran, Microsoft ’s former director of sports marketing and alliances, was charged with five counts of wire fraud. Wire fraud has a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Fraud On The Rise. Payments Fraud No Cakewalk.

Fraud 152
article thumbnail

i2c President Says Blockchain Will Unlock Cryptocurrency

PYMNTS

But in the decade since bitcoin’s debut, technologies have evolved in the payments ecosystem that are helping set the stage for cryptos to become more widely adopted. Crypto has been held up by critics as a conduit to fraud and money laundering. We leverage that information before you get onboarded to get a card.

article thumbnail

Bitcoin Daily: Bitfi?s ?Unhackable? Wallet, Net1?s Blockchain Debit Card

PYMNTS

” In other news, Net1 Technologies has developed a smart card powered by blockchain technology that can work as a debit card, reports said. The card can work offline and doesn’t need a centralized computer to function.

article thumbnail

Will The Blockchain Revolutionize Faster Payments?

PYMNTS

Blockchain technology has allowed businesses to eliminate unnecessary, not to mention costly, intermediaries and significantly reduce international cross-border payment processing time from weeks to a day. The blockchain solutions are intended to make the payments process more efficient and transparent for consumers.

article thumbnail

Digital Fraud And AI Battle To The Death

PYMNTS

More than one-third of Americans surveyed report being victims of cybercrime in 2019, and 41 percent of those incidents involved the theft of credit or debit card information. Fraud prevention tech has to scale. Clean’ and ‘Friendly’ Fraud are Neither. That’s “clean” fraud.

Fraud 137