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Major Retailers Brace For Gift Card Fraud

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To counter fraud as the holiday season approaches, Best Buy , Target and Walmart made changes to their gift card programs. The moves were announced by the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and New York, Reuters reported. With the new policies, changes include lowering the transaction limits on the sale of store-branded gift cards.

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Blank Checks And PO Manipulation Cost Businesses Millions

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Invoice and purchase order manipulation, company credit card abuse and fraudulent use of company checks all surface as cautionary tales for corporates’ internal financial processes. The scam reportedly allowed the former executive to use Coca-Cola money to pay for personal purchases like gift cards and luxury goods.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

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Those who are unbanked pay to cash their checks, to get money orders to pay their bills and to buy and use prepaid cards. The situation creates something of a catch-22 for those in the lowest tax bracket — can’t stop being poor with saving, can’t save money until one stops being poor. Is there any way out of that?

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JetPay Payment Processing Goes Live Via NCR

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Back in October, NCR announced that it was acquiring Pennsylvania-based JetPay , “a provider of end-to-end payment processing and human capital management solutions.”. Offering flexible and secure payment options is important for our customers,” explained David Long, owner of Urban Eatz, in a press release.

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FinDEVr Silicon Valley: Looking Back, Moving Forward

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Provided instant card-issuance technology to Bank of the Ozarks. Announced EMV-instant issuance milestone of more than 10 million cards in the U.S. Listed in Silicon Review as one of the 20 fastest growing security companies. Quoted in eWeek on the problem of app security. Announced its Cyber Security scholarship program.

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Regulations Keeping SMEs On Their Toes In 2017, Says Paychex

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Tax reform takes the top spot of regulations SMEs are watching most closely, Paychex said in its release of the survey results Wednesday (Dec. According to analysts, a Republican-controlled Congress means tax reform may come early in the Trump administration, and plans for such action include cuts to business tax rates.

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What Do Hillbillies Have To Do With Payments Innovation?

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While Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of 3 million, it was the collective votes of the roughly 110,000 people in the working class counties in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin who turned those blue states, red — and put President Donald J. In 2015, 50 percent of the tax filers in the U.S. presidential election.