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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Global payment solutions provider Castles Technology has acquired Spire Payments , a provider of electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS) systems, the company announced in a Thursday (Oct. He said the acquisition would add more choice for customers alongside new technical and security capabilities.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

FinTech solution company Entersekt has upgraded its authentication technology in the DACH region of Europe, according to a release. The company recently announced that the software company Netcetera implemented the authentication system for Bank-Verlag, a company that makes and provides secure services for Germany’s banks.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

19) announced that its Sigma Instant Desktop Issuance product will set “the standard for simple, secure and smart instant-ID solutions across enterprise, healthcare, government, higher education and financial institutions (FIs)." The Entrust website describes the company as “the leader in credit card production systems.”

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MAY 2, 2019

Representatives from a number of countries around the world – excluding Russia, China and representatives from technology giant Huawei – met to discuss the security of 5G networks as many countries prepare for deployment of the technology, according to a report by Reuters.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Touting 5G data speeds that are already 25 times faster than current 4G technology (and will eventually be 100 times faster), the two companies said the security, reliability and ultra-low lag times will bring increased efficiency and reduced costs. Making 5G a Reality.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

A major provider of financial technology to banks, Mitek Systems said its digital identity verification software will now incorporate near-field communication (NFC) technology as well. Mitek, a top developer of digital identity verification and mobile check deposit technology, announced on Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

In financial services, demand for ease of use and security are sky-high, even for business customers. But cloud migrations are often complex, particularly when it comes to remaining compliant with the mounting regulatory initiatives designed to address growing security risks in the financial services arena.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management. and India, alternative small business lending technology company CreditEnable has revealed a $2 million seed round, according to Inc42 reports.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

However, the sheer number of cross-border payments belies the challenges that individuals and companies face when conducting them. Sixty-one percent of treasury professionals in a recent survey said that the time involved in finding out why payments failed had been a drain on company resources.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

By comparison, the first 3-D Secure (3DS) technology provides consumers with a user experience marked by lengthy times for processing and verification. In addition, the company said card networks like Mastercard and Visa have registered as high as a 10 percent rise in authentication rates on transactions with EMV 3DS.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

“The biggest problem in IT is still the basic fact that most companies cannot completely defend their basic security,” says biometrics expert and consultant Mike Cherry. Even if you have the best biometrics program available, you still need to protect the house and I’m not sure eCommerce companies have done that.”.

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BankInovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Financial institutions prioritize investment in cybersecurity technology but no matter how much they spend for protection, their systems and data remain vulnerable. “You could never say any organization is 100% secure and they’ll never be hacked,” Ray Kelly, fellow at cybersecurity company Synopsys Software Integrity Group, told Bank Automation News, (..)

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

has secured a $25 million venture loan facility from Horizon Technology Finance Corp., a specialty finance company that provides secured loans to venture capital-backed companies. . The company aims to disrupt the $100 rental and mobility markets. Peer-to-peer car-sharing platform Getaround Inc.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 22, 2023

On April 24, the Governor of Kansas signed into law Kansas Senate Bill 44 , which enacts the Financial Institutions Information Security Act (the “Act”).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales order management company Aleran Software rolled out its OneMart B2B online shopping technology, according to a Thursday (Oct 1.) The technology’s drag and drop creator lets users quickly make safe, branded shopping experiences without the need to have technological know-how. announcement.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Spreedly , which works in accelerating global commerce via a secure, flexible platform for any payment type, has announced Christopher Hudel as chief information security officer (CISO), according to a press release. He said the opportunity is a good one because of the numerous ways the company meets payments and security needs.

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MARCH 4, 2019

Comcast announced Monday (March 4) that it has acquired BluVector, a company that uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide cybersecurity protection to companies and government agencies. Called Xfinity xFi Advanced Security , the system was created to protect smart devices from hackers and malware attacks.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . also known as 3DS 2.0

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

FinTechs are helping companies understand and optimize their total cost of payments acceptance through technology. A large company tends to have a half dozen — maybe eight or even 10 — payment service providers even if they are not, say, heavily global. FinTechs, such as Modo, handle the technology and the data security issues.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

CyberArk , the cybersecurity company, announced on Wednesday (Sept. Patent and Trademark Office for security risk detection technology. With CyberArk DNA, companies can pinpoint specific security risks and visualize how attackers could abuse credentials and associated access rights to operate in the network.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Corsight AI , an Israeli tech firm, raised $5 million as it develops technology to recognize people’s faces through masks, goggles or plastic coverings, according to a Reuters report. The money came from investors Awz Ventures, a Canadian firm focused on intelligence and security technology.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Smart technology is what makes ordering by voice and remotely monitoring your home possible. Promising as intelligence of things (IoT) solutions are, though, security has been a stumbling block. The June IoT Tracker explores the latest advancements in IoT security and new applications of smart technology.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Phixius provides interoperability between various participants connecting to the platform, enabling better security in moving data as opposed to storing it in a central repository like the cloud. According to Throckmorton, Phixius fixes issues with the old system by using congruent regulations and leveraging blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2020

Mitek , which offers digital identity verification services, has partnered with Lightico , which works in the field of identity verification and eSignatures, to provide a new way to complete transactions over a text message, a company blog post stated. It also uses Mitek's Mobile Fill for the same purpose.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the end of last month, the CFPB sent orders to six large technology platforms offering payment services that directs them to provide information to the Bureau about their payments products and services and their collection and use of personal payments data. Comments must be received on or before December 6, 2021. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A recent study from PwC found that 47 percent of companies had experienced fraud at least once in the past two years, with a grand total of $42 billion in funds stolen over this period of time. Large investments in security measures are necessary for banks to protect themselves and their customers from this menace. billion ($8.9

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Silicon Valley checkout-free, autonomous retail startup AiFi has secured a new round of funding, bringing its total raised to $30 million, the company said in a press release on Monday (Oct. AiFi has 330 autonomous store openings on deck for next year while it continues building out new and retrofitted autonomous stores worldwide.

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Cisco

JULY 26, 2022

One day, will we reminisce about brick and mortar financial services companies being replaced by digital-first financial services companies like Alipay, Block, Grab, Klarna and Paypal? This includes appropriate financial, governance, and risk controls shared by lines of business and the information technology organization.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

This one may be familiar: Wide receiver and cryptographer walk into a bar and … set the data security landscape on its ear. Neal himself had been hacked while in college and became interested in data security and technology. All sorts of havoc is in the offing across companies, payment systems, even blockchain.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Two-thirds of businesses have plans to develop new tools and technologies that will leverage 5G by 2020. That said, there are still roadblocks that players in the IoT ecosystem need to overcome, including the potential security risks that have plagued the industry from the beginning. 5G And Issues With IoT Security.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. Zenoti said it fuels over 12,000 companies in more than 50 nations. The company has disbursed more than $36.5 landed funding rounds.

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MAY 18, 2020

Many fuel companies have made the shift to a safer and more secure EMV environment, and we applaud them for doing so,” said Kush Saxena, Mastercard’s executive vice president in a statement. The company was not specific about the measures.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It was led by “Energize Ventures and Lux Capital, each of whom invests heavily in companies, fundamentally advancing how society implements and utilizes advances in technology,” Zededa said in a statement. IoT Security Concerns. IoT Security Concerns. Security Upgrades? IoT Payments Growth. percent by 2024.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question. government.

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