Payments Source

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Crooks are hiding payment skimmers within plain sight on retailer websites, using social contact buttons in a way that's hard for security protection to spot.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Brazil’s Central Bank has suspended WhatsApp’s payment feature in the country, citing antitrust concerns, according to Bloomberg on Tuesday (June 23). Mastercard and Visa have been requested to stop payments and money transfer services through the app in Brazil as well, the bank said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised. Honorable Mention.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

ACI Worldwide , which provides electronic payment and banking solutions, has added new digital overlay services that it says will help to speed up real-time payments, according to a press release. And, there will be flexible person-to-person (P2P) services with added layers of security authorizations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the February Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital IDs, including digital driver’s license initiatives around the country, biometric solutions for credit cards and the growing danger of fake profiles on social media. Deep Dive: How Fake Profiles Endanger Social Media Networks.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics are changing the digital security landscape, and a recent study found that social media networks have become a more popular way for hackers to target new victims. 22 billion: Projected over-the-top (OTT) media revenue for 2019. All this, Today In Data.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. But […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

In the latest Disbursements Tracker , PYMNTS explores how banks and card providers are approaching payment innovations to keep pace with consumer demand, and to better protect against fraudsters. have expressed a vested interested in real-time payments, the U.S. Why Cash Security Deposits Should Be the Exception to the Rule.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

The January Navigating Nonprofits’ Digital Payments Shift Report examines how nonprofits are turning to digital payment methods, virtual fundraisers and other tools to keep their contributions coming in. Around The Nonprofit Payments Space. Find out more about these stories and other headlines in the Report. About The Report.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

The pandemic has drastically affected how consumers are shopping and paying for even routine purchases, and this in turn has altered how businesses are accepting their payments. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Social payments methods like Venmo and Cash App continue to grow in popularity, and the data is there to prove it, creating an opportunity to give customers what they want: 24/7 access to cashless, P2P and mobile transactions. So how do social payments fit in community banks’ long-term future? Illustration by Filo/iStock.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Continuing its development of financial technologies on its platform, social media firm Facebook has joined a Visa program that enables the network to access its Token Service for payments, Visa announced today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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Payments Source

JULY 16, 2020

What made the attack on famous Twitter accounts so problematic wasn’t the high profile of its victims, but the non-technical and repeatable method the assailants used.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Instagram is inviting a group of security researchers known as white hat hackers to stress-test its Checkout feature before it launches outside the United States. While Instagram has assured users that Checkout payments are secure, adding that it never shares payment information with sellers and keeps financial information on secured servers.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Although yet to be considered mainstream by most, cryptocurrency as an investment and payment method has become more commonplace. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states that crypto is becoming the preferred payment method for many types of scams—and not just on the dark web, where crypto is used to fund illegal activity. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

WhatsApp will be allowed to operate its payments service in Brazil once the company formally seeks permission and shows it can operate in the country without putting customers’ data at risk or violating rules intended to preserve competition, the company’s chief central banker said Thursday, according to Reuters. and other countries.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Chipotle Mexican Grill has been the victim of a cyberattack that compromised the credit card payment information for a small number of customers. Many customers have recently posted on social media that orders placed at the restaurant fraudulently used their payment cards during the first few weeks of April.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic payment portals, payment services, digital money transfer services and eWallet services. The G-Group ecosystem includes Vietnam’s social media network Gapo and P2P lending platform Tima.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Libra Association is petitioning the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( FINMA ) for a Swiss payment system license for its planned Libra cryptocurrency, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. The social media giant wants to move forward and launch Libra in June despite global questioning and hesitation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

The more connected devices consumers have, the more concerned they are about the security of their financial information. Today’s shoppers want the transparency of being able to verify that they’ve been charged the correct amount, and many aren’t willing to trade this security for the convenience of auto-payments.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The post Payment innovations remain Apple’s top FinTech priority | Deutsche Boerse to issue digital securities | Digital Euro will not be available until 2026 appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG. We offer advisory services for the executive team and in-person or virtual courses with tailored topics.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

That’s what led him to Goodworld, an online platform that removes the friction from digital donations, making them possible (and secure) by using hashtags. Payments Facilitator. When asked to explain the Goodworld model, Gossart told Webster that “we are a social payments platform, but really a payments facilitator.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet analysts agree that the late B2B payments problem continues to worsen. publication The Times , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face an extra hurdle when chasing down late payments: collection efforts can damage the buyer-supplier relationship. 90 minutes every day are spent chasing down late invoice payments among U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Across the European Union (EU), technology providers and social media platforms are increasingly playing a bigger role in the Open Banking ecosystem. At the same time, however, many players, like Facebook and Google , are squaring off against regulators that are looking at their data and payment policies with more scrutiny.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 18, 2019

unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency that the social-media giant hopes will one day trade on a global scale much like the U.S. Facebook Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When it comes to personal information, especially data linked to payment accounts, the level of privacy and accuracy of security are key in keeping the retail world spinning. In other U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2018

Royal Bank of Canada and Facebook today offered differing versions of why the social media company continued to give the bank extraordinary access to customer data after Facebook said publicly that it would stop doing so. RBC said Facebook allowed it access in order to “wind down” a payments app it first unveiled in 2013. […].

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry. IBMFintech Twitter.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

The federal agency has accused the social media platform of violating a privacy consent decree from 2011. The FTC could also subject the social media giant to tougher checkups to prove it is complying with the settlement. So far, the largest fine the agency has imposed on a tech company was the $22.5 Privacy Push.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in its costs and expenses for the full year 2019 — that increase coming as the social media platform faces more questions from regulators and policymakers about its present and planned endeavors. Payments Move. 29), and reported that total costs and expenses hit some $46.71 31, stood at 2.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data. The Drawbacks of Complex Security. AI Solutions for Balancing Security and Convenience. More than 4.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news, Chinese authorities have made several arrests alleging cybercriminals laundered $2 billion through faux eCommerce purchases, and Square announced the launch of two real-time payment features. Plus, Facebook could face a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust suit. Square on Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Pharmaceuticals supply chain security expert Amy Shortman reportedly told the Financial Times: “There will always be a market for people who wouldn't necessarily have access to that medicine and wanted to protect themselves and their families.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Its business units span social media, video streaming, digital payments and wealth management. The payments landscape was threatened by President Trump’s executive orders in August banning ByteDance’s TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat, citing national security. billion, fueled by the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Corporations must work to retain their trust, lest they lose customers to more secure competitors. In the June Digital Fraud Tracker™ , PYMNTS explores phishing attempts, dark web marketplaces and how technologies like biometrics and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the digital security landscape. About the Tracker.

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