Social Assurance

AUGUST 14, 2020

Did you know that today is National Financial Awareness Day? And on Monday we will celebrate National Nonprofit Day! From Guacamole (September 16 th ) to International Bankers Day (December 4 th ) there are 365 opportunities to celebrate and incorporate a national day into your social media calendar.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

The region’s most technologically advanced nation, Singapore, is working toward a smart nation. Currently, about 30 percent of all online sales in Southeast Asia in 2016 occurred through social networks, like Facebook, Instagram and Line (Naver Corp.’s The country had a mobile penetration rate of 148 percent in 2014.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Kohl’s is teaming up with the social media giant to uncover emerging brands that millennial shoppers consider cool. Kohl’s own curated lines will roll out in October with brands Adore Me and pop-up card designer Lovepop. Facebook-curated brands launch in 2020.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 19, 2022

On July 13, 2022, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on National Security held a hearing entitled “Protecting Military Servicemembers and Veterans from Financial Scams and Fraud.” A recording of the hearing is available here. .

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PopularBank

APRIL 18, 2024

Indeed, scammers in the modern age can target wire transfers, gift card offers, and payment apps alongside dummy debt elimination schemes or fake high-yield investment ventures. Charge your credit card instead of debit. Debit cards do not provide the same protection if you transfer money out of your account.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

. “Regulators of all countries agree that it’s essential to develop a national digital currency, that it is the future,” Skorobogatova said. Based on the pilot projects which we are conducting, we will understand which system we could use in our case for our national currency.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Sharma now joins the other two co-founders, Robert Farkas and Raymond Trapani, in admitting that they duped investors into funding the Centra Card, which was purported to allow users to purchase items with digital currencies anywhere that accepted Visa and Mastercard. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

“While the effects of the federal government shutdown on individuals should be temporary, affected borrowers may face a temporary hardship in making payments on debts such as mortgages, student loans, car loans, business loans or credit cards,” the central bank said. On Thursday (Jan. 10) at a luncheon in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Email often gets overlooked in the 2019 digital economy, given the higher levels of excitement attached to social media, video and other, more cutting-edge tools — to say nothing of the use of text as a communication tool. Actors usually get around 70 percent of the face value of the card in bitcoin.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This statement comes as many have called for a boycott of companies that do business with the National Rifle Association (NRA). And in the days since the Parkland shooting, the hashtag #BoycottNRA has exploded on social media. ThinkProgress even listed a group of companies that gave special discounts and deals to NRA members.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2020

Be cautious of any charities requesting donations by cash, gift card, or wire transfer Be alert to “investment opportunities” - The U.S. If you see ads touting products or cures for COVID-19, they are most likely a scam Research before donating to a charity or crowdfunding site due to a public health emergency. It’s the right thing to do.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The National Restaurant Association ’s initial 2020 outlook was bright, as it projected sales just shy of $900 billion. Social distancing guidelines, stay-at-home orders and mandated dining room closures around the U.S. slowed restaurant traffic to a trickle, however, resulting in just $659 billion in revenue by year’s end.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Sharma previously served as the first director general of Unique Identification Authority of India, a government body in charge of India’s national identity card system, which is based on biometrics. The report noted that a cabinet panel signed off on the reappointment of Sharma until September of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

The experience of buying, sending and receiving greeting cards continues to undergo changes in a world where social media and sparkling, decorated texts often suffice for getting across congratulatory messages. But that doesn’t mean greeting cards are going the way of personalized letter-writing paper or envelope openers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

According the National Retail Federation (NRF), Halloween this year will see record-breaking shopping numbers. billion will be spent on decorations and $410 million on greeting cards. More people will be celebrating, which will mean bigger spend on Halloween costumes, candy and pumpkins in 2017 than in previous years. billion, up 8.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

It’s undeniably advantageous to the world economy, with a recent study finding that national digital ID systems could induce GDP growth of up to 13 percent. The country was eager to adopt digital governmental services with the launch of an online tax payment service in 2000 and a national digital ID system in 2002. More than 4.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Halloween sales, which would amount to an all-time high, according to data provided by the National Retail Federation. percent plan to buy Halloween greeting cards ($390 million of total spending). Pop culture is at 16 percent, and print media influences 14 percent of all costume decisions. billion on U.S. Last year, U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) issued statistics on hacking and cybercrime for the first time in its crime survey and said the most common form of cybercrime is malware attacks. Email and social media hacking were also among the most commonly reported cybercrime techniques. Two years ago, the UK suffered from 2.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

For companies like Fiserv, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), PayPal and others, selling terminals, offering payments platforms and designing checkout buttons, top and bottom lines were poised to move up and to the right. And here is where we may see some green shoots.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Additional queues formed at concession stands as attendees reached for their credit cards and IDs to buy beer or wine. Over the past year, 18 MLB, National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. million people in 2016 to 17.2

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

At first glimpse, the Marriott move seems small — just another example of the ongoing divorce between payments and physical cards. The social media and messaging provider recently signed a deal with Western Union to add WeChat Pay to Western Union’s GlobalPay for Students. Last year, the U.S.-based So is WeChat.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

RunLocker accepts major credit cards, and its payments are based on Stripe. RunLocker works with a range of companies, from large national brands to startup-type firms that are making unique products, such as maple syrup gels in Canada. The third might be an energy product like gel, bars or gummies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Mladen Vladic, general manager of loyalty solutions at Fidelity National Information Services ( FIS ), said bridging the gap between a satisfied customer and a loyal one is a matter of urgency for firms across all verticals, but especially for retailers. The Mechanics. times a week.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

To learn more about why, PYMNTS this past week caught up with Doug Hundley, a spokesperson for the National Christmas Tree Association. Social media promotes the experience of buying and decorating those trees, something that is considered, in certain quarters, as more “authentic” than going with an artificial option.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 22, 2020

The internet and social media have certainly made the world a smaller place. Not just that, with proper planning, you can save a ton of cash on airfare and accommodation in the form of Credit Card cashback and discounts. If visiting this beautiful country is on the cards, you don’t have to worry about the visa.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

But the nod seems there to more fully address where data and other types of information resides and how it is transferred between companies and between the two nations. billion, and more recently, there has been an investigation launched into TikTok , the social media and streaming app. and What’s In the Cards For The Cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. The payments system is flexible, allowing customers to pay by cash or credit card. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for figuring out digital ordering.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

Learn about new approaches to fighting fraud, debit cards for kids, the world that Netflix created and is now in danger of losing, and other topics. Debit Cards For Kids — It’s A Thing. The Commerce Magic of National Dog Day. Visa: New Cyber Threats Require New Fraud Tools. Happy Birthday, Netflix!

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

And, despite reporting on July 12 that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had reached an agreement to fine Facebook $5 billion, shares in the social media company were up $3.84 The country’s digital economy push comes as the government has also digitalized the national ID card, which every citizen who is older than 16 must wield.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.” There are different degrees of trust around the different types of things we do around commerce and social media,” she said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The bank’s latest Small Business Forecast survey assessed 300 small businesses across California, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and found evidence that the younger generation of entrepreneurs has the potential for big impacts on the national economy. million millennials now make up more than a quarter of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Garrett Gafke, president, CEO and founder of IdentityMind Global, said that the construction of digital identities, by necessity, goes well beyond data that might be thought of as standard, such as a street address, a credit card number or a two-factor security question test.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

It is also, according to reports, a favored new method by thieves, who will access someone else’s credit card information, use it to create a Fortnite account and then buy V-bucks, the game’s currency. And an estimated 86 percent of the scams were shared via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

The malware that was the culprit lifted customer account numbers and internal verification codes from magnetic stripes on payment cards. The data could then be used to do lots of damage, including shopping online and making “clone” cards to use other places. Chipotle will be liable for any fraud that results.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Sending funds to friends, splitting up checks, paying rent, contributing to group gifts or spending in stores (particularly with their newly released line of cards ) – over the last several years, Venmo has evolved from a simple P2P payments platform into a robust set of financial services tools for its users.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The island nation Mauritius, home to 1.3 With purchasing behaviors and card information, Facebook could become even more targeted with its advertisements. Coming off a wave of success in generating mobile ad revenue , this could be the social network’s next big play. Facebook groups were not designed for this, explained P.J.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Meanwhile, MoviePass customers were busy on social media this weekend, protesting the latest unexpected change to the site. Bank will sell its card processing service, Elan. Elan processes cards for 1,800 banks in the U.S., and more than 13 million ATMs and debit cards. And they almost never go home.

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