PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. The Fed, of course, is hardly alone in mulling digital fiat currencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is no stranger to privacy issues, and recently f ive senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and videos. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is no stranger to privacy issues, and recently f ive senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and videos. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Five senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses people’s data and video. Personal data can be exploited by foreign intelligence services to amplify the impact of espionage and influence operations,” the letter said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

The additional weekly check, part of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, is r etroactive to March 27. Our Department of Labor worked day and night to come up with the technological fixes to ensure benefits were distributed in a timely way to our residents,” Lamont said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Federal Reserve is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing a digital currency. Amazon is facing an investigation by Germany’s national competition regulator into the eCommerce giant’s relationship with third-party sellers in Amazon’s second-largest market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there. Earlier this month, as PYMNTS noted , the Federal Reserve said its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Banking and Securities Regulators (includes FDIC, Federal Reserve, NCUA). Gary Gensler , who is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will serve as team leader. English initiated unsuccessful litigation seeking a declaration that she, rather than Mr. Mulvaney, had the right to serve as Acting Director.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Five senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and video, according to a report by CNBC. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“In addition to creating new value for our retail customers around the world, StopLift’s fraud detection technology will be a key enabler of our frictionless commerce product strategy.”. NCR said StopLift’s technology detects scan avoidance methods and flags unscanned, unpaid merchandise for loss prevention. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

to China within only a few hours in order to secure a PPE shipment for healthcare providers. She and a group of volunteers are working to facilitate the procurement of PPE from that distributor for Boston-area hospitals, and so far have secured 1.4 The ability to quickly, securely and efficiently move funds within a day from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

Sources told the paper the analysis, which is being conducted by federal securities and commodities regulators, is focused on whether the creators of cryptocurrency outside bitcoin exert a lot of influence over the value, similar to how a company’s actions impact a stock and its price.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted the first “banking and securities licenses” to two blockchain companies: SEBA Crypto AG and Sygnum AG. states: Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Arizona and Montana. The exchange is already live in California, Washington and Illinois.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in a letter to colleagues that it will no longer collaborate on any new projects with Huawei, ZTE or any units of the two Chinese companies. The call on the part of MIT comes as tensions between China and the U.S. Department of Justice in January alleged Huawei violated U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

BB&T Chairman and CEO Kelly King said in his own remarks that there is a commitment in place to invest an incremental $100 million annually into innovation and technology that will “create a digital client experience that is second to none.” That overture, he said, will allow the combined firm to compete against the largest banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

Payfone announced that it has secured a $24 million funding round, led by TransUnion. The funding also included participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and Wellington Management. Payfone serves six of the top 10 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

PYMNTS recently spoke with Demian Wendrow, owner of London Harness, a leather goods store in Wellesley, Massachusetts, about how his store is turning to PaaS solutions to enhance the customer shopping experience through efficient EMV chip readers and customer loyalty programs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . But as with any nascent payments technology, the bad guys are always lurking – especially with cryptos, where anonymity is prized.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The technology, similar to that of Amazon Go stores, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify what customers take from the shelves. In the abovementioned reports of French supermarkets exploring automation, the need for increased security was emphasized. Potential Downsides. A majority (55.6

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2019

During comments at the Blockchain in Business event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 2, Sopnendu Mohanty revealed that Singapore’s central bank has run experiments to better understand the technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Biometrics promise to take a larger role in authentication security in 2019, helping to stop online fraud and bringing speed, efficiency and security to transactions ranging from QSR mobile-order ahead to airport car rentals. Six Flags Case.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is aiming to boost innovation in cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology (DLT), by easing some of the existing rules. All stablecoins on Bitfinex and Ethfinex will be traded against USD.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

ANZ Banking Group is recognized as the number four lender in Australia and is reportedly bringing Carnegie on board to help lead its continued push into digital technology and securing “strategic relationships” within the FinTech sector, ANZ said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The global tech firm has teamed with payment processors Fiserv, PTS, FIS, CoreCard, Galileo, i2c, TSYS and Marqeta to give them digital guidelines that will let clients get almost instantaneous access to card information and peace of mind to make secure transactions, among other benefits. Time on Tuesday (Sept. 22) at the earliest.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

The private testnet aims to enhance privacy and security for end users built on Quorum. “We Last month, the company, developed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab, announced $20 million in funding from China’s FBG Capital, INBlockchain and Kenetic Capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

Snowden unveiled the device via livestream during a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab’s conference dubbed “Forbidden Research.”. Teaming up with well-known hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the two designed the device, which is a piece of hardware that you put on your iPhone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

In the latest Mobile Point-of-Sale Tracker , PYMNTS reports on how mPOS solutions are entering new markets around the globe, and how players in the space are working to make sure they also become more secure as they become increasingly popular. Around the mPOS World. Meanwhile, other players in the space are unveiling their first mPOS forays.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It’s called ATM cash-out fraud, and it’s a new data security threat where physical attacks and cyberattacks converge. Even some multifactor security systems have been broken this way, says Dani Creus, a researcher with security software firm Kaspersky Lab in Woburn, Mass. Maria Korolov is a freelance writer in Massachusetts.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

The tech boom has diffused beyond the traditional hotbeds of California, New York, and Massachusetts, across the entire United States. Using the CB Insights database, we identified the most-well funded VC-backed technology startups by state based on disclosed equity funding. Tilson Technology Management. Massachusetts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Massachusetts locations. Chief Information Officer John Lauderbach said in a press release in early January, “Our adoption of the company’s premium point-of-sale technology has already proven successful by enabling faster, more frictionless transactions for both our associates and customers.”. Roche Bros.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

McElhinney, a Google alum, began to form the Mayflower concept while a grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management — nothing says lifelong romance like a few terms at an elite business school. An Idea is Born. It’s not like we created the trend,” he said. The Mayflower solution?

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Data security company Trusted Knight closed a Series B financing round this week. In addition to the funding, Trusted Knight announced it has acquired Massachusetts-based Sentrix, a company that aims to protect against vulnerability exploits and DDoS attacks. The acquisition was finalized in December. The company was founded in 2010.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Can the states make licensing – of the money movement kind – any easier?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At the time, Uber – at the directive of its chief security officer – hid the breach and paid hackers about $100,000 to destroy the data. The ride-sharing company said that no Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken. drivers’ license numbers. drivers’ license numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When Amazon Go’s cashierless checkout technology came out, its ambitions were modest. The technology is also slated to support a series of pop-up shops. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan were co-signatories of a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Selection: Monty Rogers, EVP and Chief Lending Officer, Security Bank Is there any doubt that the leader of my receiving corp would be a Texan? Security Bank in Midland, Texas lends to business, period. What has Monty delivered to Security Bank? Read more about their initiative in a American Banker Bank Technology News here.

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