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SaaS Platform Kount Partners With Verifi To Help Firms Minimize Disputes, Fraud

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Kount , the Boise, Idaho-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify fraud detection and improve profitability, announced it has partnered with Verifi , the payment protection and management company. In June, Visa signed an acquisition agreement with Verifi.

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Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check

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Innovations in this area are moving slightly faster in Idaho, which has been slowly introducing digital disbursements to a few programs. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is allowing residents to schedule and receive reoccurring payments to their credit or debit cards in a bid to simplify the child support payment process.

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Why Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time

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What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Those efforts come as voice-assistant and voice-activated technologies — different, of course, from voice-print biometrics — are having a moment in the retail spotlight. Voice-Print Efforts.

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SNAP Users Shut Out Of The Digital Grocery Aisles

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The government first began investigating the prospect of allowing SNAP card recipients to pay for their groceries online four years ago, in 2016 , and had begun to design a pilot program with grocery players. An opinion, incidentally, that some retailers, particularly Walmart, concur with. Though Walmart is a participant in the U.S.

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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

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Whether this turns out great or a bubble that pops, Chime has jolted the staid banking industry into thinking about who will acquire future retail customers and where value creation may emerge. Best Use of Card Rewards for Seat Upgrades We saw a Great Dane in the Comfort Plus section of the plane. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.

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Inside Kount’s Fraud-Fighting Machine

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The urgency of robust and multilayered fraud detection systems becomes especially clear against a backdrop where card-not-present fraud is likely to grow by leaps and bounds in the wake of the EMV liability shift from last year. But they also bring with them new learning curves and challenges for those fighting fraud (e.g.

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Data Dive, Supersize Edition: Warby Parker, Whole Foods And WhatsApp

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The company has also reported that, at least thus far, there is no indication that the attacks were successful in stealing any credit card information — though they have contacted users affected and advised them to change their passwords. Warby Parker contacted law enforcement when it found out about the breach.

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