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MAY 22, 2020

Treasury’s difficulties getting relief money to individuals, has renewed calls for the government to accelerate its FedNow national real-time payments network, still not expected to be operational until at least 2023. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) disbursement fiasco, coupled with the U.S. The Fed’s Failure.

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MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. SCT Inst was developed in 2017 to establish operational guidelines by which all real-time payment rails in the EU are required to comply. Best-Laid Plans.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Authorities in the Philippines are probing a law office and tour operator for potential connections to Wirecard , the payments provider disgraced after a global scandal, and Jan Marsalek , its former chief operating officer who has been on the run for the past several months, according to the Financial Times (FT).

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JULY 16, 2020

The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. will face a potential disruption of their operations. Companies will have to choose between whether to move personal data to servers in Europe or stop doing business in the region. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . The men operated under a hacking group called “Advanced Persistent Threat 10,” or “APT10.”

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

However, Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, executive director of the UAE’s National Electronic Security Authority, told CNBC that the country has been working with big tech platforms, especially Facebook-owned WhatsApp, on national security initiatives. Of course, technology also brings with it security concerns.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A former cryptocurrency exchange and its founder are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency announced in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. Montroll operated an unregistered online securities exchange and defrauded its users by misappropriating their bitcoins.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. The initiative will be on hold until the government enacts new laws that would safeguard data security.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

the ability to send secure funds to 12 countries in Africa for a reduced fee, while Volante Technologies Inc. and Europe the ability to send secure funds to 12 nations in Africa for a reduced charge. In today’s top payments news around the world, Xoom is now offering clients in the U.S., Canada, Europe and U.K. Canada, U.K.

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JULY 24, 2020

These marketplaces need to have strong security approaches in place, however, to ensure they do not accidentally onboard any fraudulent sellers or let other scams be perpetrated across their platforms. How Global Freelancing Marketplaces Can Maintai n Security And Regulatory Compliance. Around The eCommerce Payments W orld.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nets will provide the full-scale solution with a corporate credit and debit solution using digital services, enterprise card management and security tools, the release stated. Digital banking firm Emirates National Bank Dubai (Emirates NBD) has rolled out its new businessONLINE platform, an omnichannel platform for small businesses.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities. Europe was the first region to adopt EMV technology, and sees a transaction rate of more than 99 percent. and Europe.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

That’s because those threats are relatively localized, and don’t take into account the risk of hackers (especially those backed by organized militaries and nation-states) taking down key infrastructures. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal and state agencies, about cyberattacks against infrastructure.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Dubai, UAE – April 13, 2022 – Finastra today announced that Banque Misr, the second largest national bank in Egypt with international presence, has selected Fusion Trade Innovation and Fusion Corporate Channels to digitalize its trade finance services and provide a premium user experience.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Axos Bank parent company Axos Financial has rolled out out commercial banking operations across new markets in the U.S., “The nation’s two largest metropolitan areas are home to a majority of our commercial lending and banking clients,” said Greg Garrabrants, president and CEO of Axos, in a statement.

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MARCH 14, 2018

Banks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region expect real-time payments to come with some major benefits to their businesses, according to new analysis from ACI Worldwide and Ovum. However, the report did find that banks in the region are less clear about exactly how they will create APIs for third-party use.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants from other regions have been dipping their toes into the Chinese market, but open banking has compounded the difficulty involved in setting up operations. The country’s government and regulators are keeping pace with those in the European Union and the U.S. The law is still ambiguous.

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MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

In terms of mechanics, the credit scoring software will use data spanning bank and corporate transactions, and Nikkei said the lenders would need to secure borrowers’ consent before accessing and using that data. Blocktrade, according to a release, has a European license in place to trade with tokens and digital coins.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

John Tait will assume the position of Managing Director of TNS’ Payments Division for the Asia Pacific region. Zirkel was the Chief Operating Officer of TabbedOut before joining TNS, a mobile payment app with CRM features for bars and restaurants. TNS also has operations in Indonesia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

China’s Operation Fox Hunt has led to the arrest of 62 Chinese nationals abroad and the seizure of 10 billion yuan ($1.5 The Chinese ministry said their teams “successfully brought back 62 criminal suspects from 16 countries and regions, including Thailand and Cambodia.”.

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JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

The report explores how companies in G20 nations are preparing for risks related to technological disruption, regulation and cybersecurity. Overall, organizations did not score well, according to Kevin Hewitt, FTI Consulting’s chairman of the EMEA region. One-third of companies acknowledge their data security practices are sub-par.

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JULY 14, 2017

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) gave these three African countries the highest marks in the region in its Global Cybersecurity Index based on their legislative frameworks, technical capacity to respond to incidents and cooperation with other countries. Homeland Security. said the plant was continuing to operate safely.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The experience of the mall CMBS [commercial mortgage-backed security] from Starwood is certainly symptomatic of the larger narrative,” said Christopher Sullivan, chief investment officer of United Nations Federal Credit Union, as reported in Yahoo! PREIT has had to absorb some of the same losses as its colleagues.

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JULY 28, 2017

The regional court in Cologne gave Daniel K. One can’t say exactly what the damages for Telekom are,” the presiding judge, Christof Wuttke, said in handing down the sentence, noting the costs to Germany’s biggest telecom services operator were sizable but not “lasting.”. The maximum sentence was up to 10 years.

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MAY 3, 2019

By some recent accounts , more than 100 million migrants are participating in the nation’s workforce — one-fifth of the nation’s workforce. Many of these workers travel from rural, low-income regions, hoping that work opportunities in urban areas will enable them to support their families. The speed is immense.” .

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. cloaked well enough so that the U.S.

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JULY 31, 2019

Where does the vendor operate (e.g., regions, cloud)? Tools such as the ABC National Risk Score in the US, which provides a general rating of cyber risk for benchmarking, and the FICO® Cyber Risk Score, which provides company- specific metrics, may be leveraged in combination to provide a directionally correct view of relative risk.

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JULY 21, 2020

Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems. Many nations in the region are thus examining their open banking proposals to ensure they address this behavior.

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JULY 17, 2019

“They leapfrogged all the traditional mechanisms and went straight to mobile adoption and biometrics , and that has a significant impact on how the digital identity market operates there, how people respond to it, and what their expectations are,” Cohen told Webster. But looking globally, a fragmented landscape frames the debate.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Hoesley also previously led the midwest region for Silicon Valley Bank, and was a partner at Prism Capital, a middle-market provider of venture capital and mezzanine debt. He was a technology banker with Wells Fargo Securities and RBC Capital Markets before launching CIBC’s Innovation Banking practice.

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JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. In the U.S. The Wider Applicability.

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JULY 1, 2019

Entities such as the National Payments Corporation of India — an umbrella organization for operating retail payments in India — have been helping to guide electronic payments adoption. However, more developed nations have been relatively constrained by legacy technologies and entrenched ways of conducting commerce.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Smart trash receptacles are already being used to alert sanitation crews where trash collection services are needed, allowing them to adjust their routes and operate in a cost-effective manner. For citizens to engage with these services and trust them, seamless and secure digital identity tools will be essential.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Both Uber and its main competitor in India, Ola, hold more than 70 percent of their revenue from only five cities in the whole country: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-National Capital Region and Kolkata. Government acceptance is also an issue. In New Delhi, a cab must install a digital meter.

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