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Australia, New Zealand Take A Hard BEC Scam Hit

PYMNTS

While the business email compromise (BEC) scam is a global pain point for businesses, this week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures in B2B payments fraud and finds BEC heating up in one particular region: Australia and New Zealand. In total, about $104.5 million erroneous payment resulting from a BEC scam.

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Warren presses Capital One CEO for more details about breach

Payments Source

The Massachusetts senator asked Richard Fairbank in a letter why the bank didn’t detect the breach for nearly four months and how it plans to prevent future cyber intrusions.

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Disruptive technology will not kill banks

Jeff For Banks

But wait, ING Direct grew to $92 billion in assets until ING Group divested it to Capital One. Aside from the cyber security of it, let''s think of the implications from a corporate accounting system that wants to interact directly with the bank''s core. Was Vanguard a disruptor? Was ING Direct a disruptor?

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April 2014: A Busy Month for Fraud Alerts!

Jack Henry

Regional Coalitions. The FDIC encourages subscribing to these various groups to ensure that you receive regular security alerts, tips, and other updates. It ends with encouragement to utilize cyber-security resources like the ones I mentioned earlier. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF). FBI InfraGard.

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The Surprises Edition: Ethereum, PayPal And The Fed

PYMNTS

But that is changing as more consumers in the region are embracing digital methods and purchase channels, and the payments industry is pegged to grow ten-fold to $500 billion by 2020. Digital payments are still misunderstood among many, often seeming like a difficult and unnecessarily complex addition to their lives.

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Jack Henry Annual Conference 2017 – Fintech, AI and Cyber Security

William Mills

The panelists, John Hans Morris, Managing Partner at Nyca Partners; David Sosna, co-founder and CEO of Personetics; and David Klein, co-founder and CEO of CommonBond, explained how banks have a fundamental advantage of cost and capital while fintechs are well positioned to leverage technology that builds customer engagement.