Innovation Still Centers on Cards as Mobile Payments Languish
Bank Innovation
APRIL 21, 2017
Cards may be fumbling at the innovation game, but they’re still the center of the payments world, while mobile payments remain a geeky sideshow.
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Bank Innovation
APRIL 21, 2017
Cards may be fumbling at the innovation game, but they’re still the center of the payments world, while mobile payments remain a geeky sideshow.
PYMNTS
MAY 8, 2020
Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. Samsung introduced its payments tool in 2015 with MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology as well as Near Field Communication (NFC), a newer technology. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.
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PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
“With the increasingly high numbers of online shoppers in the wake of COVID-19 , we are committed to providing solutions that lay the groundwork for the next generation of simple, secure and better ways to pay,” Stacey Madge , president and country manager of Visa Canada, said in the announcement. The news comes as Visa said on Jan.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
politician said Facebook was aware that Russian-linked organizations were harvesting data from the social media giant, since October 2014, according to Bloomberg. There was a place card with his name on it in the room. The Russian individuals reportedly utilized a feature that allowed advertisers to collect copious amounts of data.
PYMNTS
MARCH 8, 2016
Another major step in the Home Depot 2014 breach case has been settled. Home Depot has agreed to pay $13 million to the victims impacted by the data breach that resulted in payment card data being stolen from more than 50 million consumers. The malware was believed to have been present between April and September 2014.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Firms recognize that not all employees can receive payments into bank accounts, and these companies must therefore provide secure, convenient alternatives. Employers may also find it easier and cheaper to issue funds via payroll cards rather than checks because the former method spares them from printing and mailing physical documents.
Perficient
JULY 11, 2022
Here are critical facts to know about some of the most popular BNPL service platforms: Afterpay: Afterpay was founded in Australia in 2014 but was acquired by fintech Square earlier this year. When deciding whether to use a BNPL service for a purchase, it is essential to read the fine print. Looking Ahead in the BNPL Landscape.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
When InstaReM CEO and Co-founder Prajit Nanu started putting together a global remittance firm for consumers and businesses in 2014, he had been struggling with what he called the entrepreneurial itch for a while. A bank in Singapore, for example, that wants to start issuing cards will be waiting for about nine months to finish that project.
PYMNTS
MAY 13, 2020
The 28 additions add significantly to the 150 token requestor partners that had been included in Visa Token Service through the years since the service launched in 2014. The bad actors are eyeing eCommerce and specifically card not present transactions as promising attack vectors. The Click To Pay Transition.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 8, 2020
A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. The case was prosecuted by Homeland Security Investigations, along with agents of the U.S.
PYMNTS
MARCH 31, 2020
The partnership enables CoinEx users to buy cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and USDT with their Visa or Mastercard credit cards directly. Enabling fast and secure credit card payments is a key step to mass crypto adoption. The processing fee for Simplex is 3.5
Bank Innovation
JUNE 23, 2016
Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 31, 2018
We have a major security effort at the company that hardens all of our surfaces.”. Retailer Hudson’s Bay got story started in early April with the disclosure that Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised.
PYMNTS
JULY 6, 2018
billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement. marking a twofold increase over 2014.
PYMNTS
APRIL 28, 2016
is soaring the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, a new Smart Payment Association (SPA) report has found. billion chip cards were supplied — of which, 570 million were shipped to the U.S., marking a twofold increase over 2014. The shift to EMV in the U.S. Last year alone, over 2.06
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) on Friday (Nov. Authorities allege that over a period of years, Wells Fargo allegedly opened new credit cards and other accounts without permission for existing customers with different accounts, so as to meet “cross-sales” targets. Stumpf agreed to settle the charges by paying a $2.5
PYMNTS
JANUARY 14, 2020
14) that participants in its Visa Token Service have processed eCommerce volumes of $1 trillion since the service’s debut in 2014, and that its transition of Visa Checkout merchants to click-to-pay will begin on Jan. Click-to-pay is interoperable with the EMVCo tokenization and the 3-D Secure specifications. Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.
PYMNTS
JULY 4, 2018
The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported. The exchange-traded fund, which was founded in 2014, notched staggering returns of 31 percent following the Equifax data breach in 2017, twice that of the S&P 500 return during that same time period. consumers.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
While virtual cards (v-cards) can offer a secure and efficient way for businesses to pay travel suppliers, some industry players have highlighted a key pain point for the payment rail: For suppliers accepting v-cards , they still have to manually enter payment data. New reports on Tuesday (Sept.
PYMNTS
JULY 17, 2018
Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.
PYMNTS
JULY 6, 2020
Indonesian payment processor Payfazz has secured $53 million in Series B funding, numerous media outlets reported Monday (July 6). In one, Indonesia-based travel and lifestyle platform Traveloka partnered with Bank BRI on a credit card for Indonesia’s underbanked population, as PYMNTS reported last fall. About 93 percent of U.S.
Jack Henry
APRIL 30, 2014
Cyber-Attacks on Financial Institutions ATM and Card Authorization Systems. The following steps are expected of FIs: Maintain an information security program and risk assessment, Monitor Internet traffic to your website in order to detect an attack (establish a baseline so you can easily discern an increase in activity). FBI InfraGard.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
The Social Security number (SSN) was never meant to get this much attention. In a wide-ranging discussion, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS’ Karen Webster discussed the brave new world of identity security and verification, and what those terms mean when it should be assumed that all of your data has been compromised.
PYMNTS
APRIL 24, 2017
A Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for stealing credit card numbers and selling the data online, according to The New York Times. Seleznev was convicted for running a credit card and identity theft business out of his homes in Indonesia and Russia. “This prosecution is unprecedented.”
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
You don’t have to look far to see security flaws leading to massive data breaches. Security experts believe that may be what happened to Yahoo — the tech giant confirmed that over 500 million user accounts were compromised by hackers, marking what is said to be the largest data breach in U.S.
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 11, 2016
The program, launched in May 2014, allows merchants who charge less than $1 million a year through American Express, to use one of 18 merchant processors to secure a lower discount rate. American Express today dispelled market rumors that it would expand its OptBlue program. Market participants tell Bank Innovation Read More.
PYMNTS
APRIL 5, 2016
In the recent instance of the XSS security vulnerabilities that befell the online shopping cart Zen Cart, for example, the company acted quickly to solve its own problem. But the fact is that things don’t always sort themselves out, effectively, in the retail security game. Sometimes, that assumption is accurate.
PYMNTS
JULY 27, 2016
Victims of an illegal credit card billing scam have started receiving checks from the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the operators of the illegal credit card scheme made unauthorized charges on the credit cards and debit cards of victims for internet services they didn’t get. billion.
PYMNTS
MAY 11, 2020
Though the issue has captured a lot of attention lately as the demand for online grocery order for pick-up or delivery has become a critical priority for many consumers, giving food stamp ( SNAP program) recipients the ability to use their EBT cards online to pay for groceries is far from a new effort. The Emerging Grocery Landscape .
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
In a world where payments become more invisible the more digital they become, there’s never been a better opportunity to consider new ways to enable the digital transformation of financial services in a secure and compliant way. Payments Security As A Digital Business Enabler. Or watch its digital disruption. Sophisticated Threats.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 3, 2018
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing cyber security specialists, the breach in which the personal information of as many as 500 million customers was exposed began in 2014, going undetected until September of 2018. The hack could hurt Marriott’s reputation at a time when it’s fighting off the likes of Airbnb.
PYMNTS
JUNE 17, 2019
Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant it couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment. The company also said that there was no security issue and that no payment or personal data was leaked. pay for things they wanted to buy in the store.
PYMNTS
MARCH 5, 2019
The company said that an alert was raised in September from an “internal security tool” that access to guests’ information had been attempted. An investigation then revealed that the unauthorized access had been happening since 2014. million encrypted payment cards were also taken in the attack. million passport numbers, 5.25
PYMNTS
JULY 15, 2019
That fraud spans, among other methods, misuse of government credit cards and procurement payments, reported itnews.com. And when it comes to external fraud, 95 percent of external fraud can be traced to “one large entity” focused on payment card fraud. The report said the fraud had been identified and addressed. Grayson Jr.,
PYMNTS
JULY 11, 2016
Late last week, The Register reported that 105 suspects of credit card fraud were arrested in Asia and Europe after a cybercrime ring was busted by authorities. The suspects are accused of using counterfeit credit cards to buy luxury goods, and house searches of the accused resulted in the discovery of 3,000 fraudulent payment cards.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 24, 2020
This massive popularity is driving many digital-first banks to invest in more advanced interactive teller machines (ITMs), which connect customers with a human teller via videoconference and allow for more sophisticated banking activities beyond cash withdrawal, including card applications and account openings. Keeping ITMs Secure.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 4, 2018
These tourists, business travelers and others entrusted the Starwood hotel guest reservation database with details about their payment cards; home, work and email addresses; passport numbers and images; reward accounts and general travel habits. Fewer still cancelled their credit and debit cards. Good for them! Well, not really.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The information stored inside your phone could soon be used to authenticate you to banks, credit card companies and other financial service providers. According to the Brazilian financial services firm, launched in 2014, it boasts a fraud rate just one-tenth that of larger banks and financial institutions. A Wider Mobile Future.
PYMNTS
JUNE 6, 2019
don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point of sale. When contactless payments started gaining traction in the mid-2000s, there were rampant fears about security.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2017
As if Yahoo didn’t have enough on its plate, the tech company is now facing a probe from the Securities and Exchange Commission as to whether or not it could have acted more promptly in response to two massive data breaches that left over a billion customers’ information compromised. may actually be putting users’ security at risk.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 19, 2016
While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. In September of this year, it was revealed that over 500 million Yahoo accounts had been compromised back in 2014.
PYMNTS
JULY 17, 2017
After signing on as Neiman Marcus’ chief security information officer in 2014, Sarah Hendrickson has stepped down from her position. Hendrickson, a 20-year security veteran, joined Neiman Marcus’ team shortly after the company’s 2013 data breach which involved 1.1 million credit and debit cards.
PYMNTS
JUNE 19, 2019
But challenges remain, not the least of which include securing the emerging ecosystem for those connected cards and trucks. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014. Security, though, remains an issue for connected vehicles.
PYMNTS
MARCH 6, 2017
While hackers got into the POS systems through a faulty firewall or third-party vendor, once in they were able to install malware that located unencrypted credit card information — which was then sent to remote servers, packaged and resold on the black market. Specifically the webinar will explore: The State of Payment Security.
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