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Florida City Pays Hundreds Of Thousands To Hackers

PYMNTS

Lake City, a community of about 12,000 people west of Jacksonville, forked over hundreds of thousands of dollars after a ransomware attack crippled its systems. I thought we had a backup, but obviously we didn’t have a good enough backup for this kind of attack,” said Joe Helfenberger, city manager in Lake City.

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Retail Pulse: Luxury Brands Eye Airport Retail; Panera Bread Tests Dinner Menu

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Bacardi Managing Director of Global Travel Retail Vinay Golikeri said, according to the outlet, “Over half of the people, when they travel and browse stores, they’re looking for something they can’t find back home.” And consumers at airports do make an attractive customer base as they have extra time that lets them stay in stores longer.

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

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The combined company will retain the FIS name and will be headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. We started to really think about how [we] not only simplify integration and onboarding, but [how to] better manage operations on an ongoing basis,” he said. “We merchant customers. “We

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The Big Gorilla

Independent Banker

Sarah Getzlaff, executive vice president and chief operating officer at First Security Bank of North Dakota, sees the detrimental effects of overly complex regulation in everyday operations, particularly in lending. First Security, a $180 million-asset community bank in New Salem, N.D., Fearful of mistakes. And Center, N.D.,

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

As players in the Apple Pay initiative, Visa, MasterCard and ICBA Bancard are working to ensure community bank credit card customers will have full access to the mobile payments system, including its tokenization security measures. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2015 Edition

Jeff For Banks

But management went to work. through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 16 locations. If I haven't confused you enough, they have an SBA division that originates loans in the Jacksonville, Ft. What a ride! #3. BNCCORP, Inc.

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FIS, FICO Take Aim At Dirty Money With New AML Product

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The Jacksonville-based FIS said in a press release that its new AML system will draw upon “machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)” to detect suspicious transactions, alert financial institutions (FIs) and arm “bank investigators with detailed, transparent intelligence.”. Department of the Treasury.