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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. Swedish Startup Lendify Closes $115M Funding Deal.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Founded in 2012, Payworks offers a variety of omnichannel payment providers a next-generation payment gateway technology, operated in the cloud and provided in a Software-as-a-Service model. Payworks announced that it has completed a $14.5M

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JULY 24, 2019

Just two days after the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a historic settlement of privacy and security claims against Equifax, the FTC today announced that Facebook has agreed to pay $5 billion in civil fines, arising from its violation of a 2012 consent order with the FTC. 2012 Consent Order. 2012 Consent Order.

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MARCH 1, 2016

29) that it has brought on board Amazon’s former chief security officer, Tom Killalea. WSJ noted that “especially valuable” is Killalea’s experience within the customer service arena, with security complementing expansion efforts by Capital One into data usage and software development, among other areas.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The tie-up gives Jack Henry customers access to the Plaid network and provides extra security to the 350-plus financial institutions using Jack Henry’s Banno digital platform. Both Plaid and Jack Henry care deeply about building superior technological solutions for financial institutions.”.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

identities took center stage in 2012 — the year HSBC, Europe?s The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization, adopted new KYC rules in 2012 requiring its broker members to use “reasonable diligence” to open and maintain every account. The London-based bank?s

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JUNE 11, 2020

This is fueling a wave of interest and need for digital alternatives, many of which leverage biometric technology. The technology itself is not new — many consumers already use biometric authentication in their daily lives, with 80 percent of consumers using their fingerprints to unlock their smartphones, for example.

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JUNE 20, 2016

The week is getting off on just the right foot for the folks over at Plaid Technologies, who are announcing $44 million in new funding. Plaid Technologies announced Monday (June 20) that it had secured $44 million in funding courtesy of a round led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 6, 2017

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

We have around 40 companies that fit in Brazil,” the group’s head in Brazil, André Maciel, told the news outlet during an event at Cubo, a technological hub funded by Itaú Unibanco, the largest private bank in Latin America. . Creditas was started in 2012 by Sergio Furio, a Spanish former consultant and now the company’s chief executive.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

It also plans to build the world’s first full stack offering for truly autonomous security, as well as increase investment in its core organic R&D. Founded in 2012, Cybereason boasts distribution in all major global markets. The new funding will be used to boost the company’s operations, with a focus on global growth.

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JULY 7, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday (July 7), the stock is expected to be priced between $22.00 Founded in 2012, nCino has raised $213 million in venture-backed funding, according to Crunchbase, the San Francisco provider of business data about private and public companies. million shares of its stock. and $24.00

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MARCH 18, 2019

Rethinking Security Strategies . Financial and Ethical Security Strategies. banks increasing their AML compliance staffing tenfold between 2012 and 2017, according to one report. Money is the lifeblood that fuels any organization, and that includes terrorist and other criminal groups.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Aided by technology – and emboldened by the rise of cryptocurrencies – fraudsters are stepping up ransomware campaigns. In comments reported earlier this week, cyber insurance security responder Tom Bennett of CFC Underwriting told The Financial Times that that claims surged in June and July.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion. The idea was to have Instagram’s chat feature use Facebook Messenger’s technology, so Instagram users could communicate with Messenger users. Still, it’s not possible to message Facebook users directly from Instagram. Two years later, Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (June 22), the North Carolina-based company said it plans to raise $100 million. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (June 22), the North Carolina-based company said it plans to raise $100 million. BofA Securities and Barclays are the managers for the proposed offering.

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JUNE 1, 2018

The termination of plans to create a national cryptocurrency comes amid a money laundering scandal in which the police said late last month that more than $13 billion (or about €11 billion) was laundered through banks in Estonia between 2012 and 2016. In 2012, more than €7.3

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Separate reports from The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), published last April, also demonstrated the changing nature of corporate finance: While the Big Four accounting firms’ advisory and consulting revenue jumped by a combined 44 percent since 2012, revenue from straightforward auditing for the firms rose just 3 percent in that time.

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APRIL 10, 2019

technology company. When Facebook went public back in 2012 it raised $16 billion. Investors are expected to glean a lot of details about the financial performance of Uber via the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are leading the IPO.

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APRIL 16, 2018

The think tank found a decline of 410 basis points in the retailer’s apparel share as its revenues declined by $3 billion from 2012 to 2017. The technology, which is powered by the retailer’s mobile app, is expected to be deployed to all of Macy’s full-line stores by the end of the year, CNBC reported.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A number of major Australian retailers and payments associations have filed letters supporting a regulatory request from three Australian banks that would make Apple collectively negotiate third-party access to its iPhone secure near-field communication (NFC) module for Apple Pay , according to AppleInsider.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Apple has made a new bet on augmented reality (AR), buying Akonia Holographics , which makes lenses for the technology. Akonia’s HoloMirror technology enables “headsets that are thin, transparent and light-weight, while achieving high [field of view (FOV)] with low manufacturing cost,” Akonia said on its website.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

At the time of the announcement, Alphabet wasn’t offering many details, just that Chronicle would offer two services: a new security intelligence and analytics platform for companies, as well as VirusTotal, an online malware and virus scanner acquired by Google in 2012. Chronicle is a product of X, the company’s moonshot group.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The payments landscape is changing fast due to new disruptive technologies such as open APIs, distributed ledger technology, cloud, Apple/Samsung/…Pay, and customers’ expectations are changing for seamless and faster payments. Distributed Ledger Technology. Use of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay etc.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The payments landscape is changing fast due to new disruptive technologies such as open APIs, distributed ledger technology, cloud, Apple/Samsung/…Pay, and customers’ expectations are changing for seamless and faster payments. Distributed Ledger Technology. Use of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay etc.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

LISNR uses ultrasound technology to provide a solution that lets merchants and payment providers accept mobile payment data anytime during the customer journey. The technology works with all types of purchase scenarios – including scan-and-go, store pickups and eCommerce – and can also be used for messages, authentication and identification.

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JULY 18, 2017

Scharf was CEO and a director of Visa from October 2012 through December 2016 and was recognized for transforming the firm into a technology-driven digital commerce company. Before joining Visa , Scharf served as managing director of One Equity Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s

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JUNE 1, 2018

The days of modern technology companies using relational databases for all of their workloads have come and gone,” said Raju Gulabani, vice president of databases, analytics and machine learning at Amazon Web Services. We can be more global and more secure than they can on their own,” he said.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. Measures enacted to make the sector more financially secure have also increased costs and reinforced the incumbents’ competitive advantage.

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MARCH 21, 2018

The blockchain hype is real — just ask Long Blockchain — but governments are taking a modest, more realistic approach to the technology. The FTC published a blog post this week announcing the formation of its Blockchain Working Group, an initiative to address cryptocurrency-related security issues. Several areas of the U.S. In the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

If history is even a rough guide to the future, you can bet that some of the case studies, technology and techniques gained from what promises to be a major operational effort will make their way into the payments and commerce mainstream — which, of course, has its own daily issues with data breaches, hackers, fraud and authentication.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Karner noted that Signify has been into IoT and connected products since its early days: 2012, two years before Amazon Alexa’s release. The unifying principle is delivering use cases that consumers can genuinely utilize, then making sure that the experiences are secure, private and under consumers’ control.

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JUNE 8, 2018

based Immersive Labs for its cyber security war games demonstrates the enduring appeal of that adage. In addition, organizations — those with a long view, at least — have long done cyberthreat assessments, a process centered around checking anti-hacking technology and the credibility of cyberattack response plans.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Cybercriminals have a new favorite weapon in their quest to allude regulators, law enforcement and corporate security departments: account takeovers. There’s good reason why cybercriminals are turning to the technique, according to Dave Endler, co-founder and president of security and fraud prevention solutions provider SpyCloud.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Bill Stasior, who has been in charge of Siri since 2012, is still employed with the tech giant, but is now in a different role, according to The Information. The head of Siri at Apple has moved on to another position within the company. Stasior joined Apple from Amazon ’s A9 retail search team.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The challenger bank has run on a cloud banking model since its 2012 launch and is available for business and consumer use in 30 European markets, including Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. It is not the technology itself that is important, however, but the strategy behind it. ML, the Cloud and Competition.

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