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Finance Ministry: India Retailers With $7M+ Sales Must Accept Debit Cards

PYMNTS

50 crores (about $7 million) will have to offer customers electronic payment modes like debit cards, powered by RuPay, according to a report by LiveMint. . Digital transactions continue to be popular in the country, and in October, payments system UPI saw a new high of 1 billion transactions.

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2015 Marriott Breach: Prelude To 2018 Cyberattack?

PYMNTS

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing cyber security specialists, the breach in which the personal information of as many as 500 million customers was exposed began in 2014, going undetected until September of 2018. It said it learned of it on Sept.

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Were 3.25M Indian Debit Cards Breached?

PYMNTS

million debit cards in India will either have their security codes changed or their cards swapped out wholesale due to concerns that the data may have been breached in one of the nation’s biggest security incidents ever. million cards, the majority are on the Visa or Mastercard platform — 2.65 As many as 3.25

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Two Cyber Security Investments With a Silver Lining

Banking 2020

In addition to reselling the technology to your customers, your bank may consider giving the software away to your commercial customers to reduce breach risk and the subsequent indirect risk to loans and card reissuing. Total Identity Monitoring. Most banks offer customers credit monitoring.

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Reflections 2022: The Power of Patents and the People Behind Them

FICO

Some of the patents granted this year that are most meaningful to me include: “Visualization for Payment Card Transaction Fraud Analysis,” which relates to a computer-implemented method and system for visualizing payment card transactional fraud analysis. This technology is incorporated into FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager.

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KPMG: How AI Defense Can Counter Faster Payments Fraud

PYMNTS

Ron Plesco, principal of Cyber Security, and Bob Ruark, principal of Banking and Financial Services Strategy and KPMG’s FinTech leader in the U.S. That means using the best parts of the legacy technology and system, and then deciding whether there is a need to combine that with new technology from vendors.

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TRENDING: Putting IT Professionals Through Cyberattack Boot Camp

PYMNTS

Users can simply ask Siri to send money to contacts, with funds withdrawn from a virtual debit or credit card. faster payments system, the Federal Reserve named 27 members to its new Governance Framework Formation Team. The Department of Homeland Security observes October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

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