PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Indonesian payment processor Payfazz has secured $53 million in Series B funding, numerous media outlets reported Monday (July 6). According to that report , 49 percent of Indonesia residents ages 15 or older had bank accounts in 2017, up from 36 percent in 2014. About 93 percent of U.S.

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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.

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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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). This isn’t the OCC’s first attempt to create a special banking charter that would benefit tech firms.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Paygilant, the frictionless mobile payments fraud detection company, announced Tuesday (April 4) it was able to show how Citi was able to reduce operational costs associated with mobile wallet transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Researchers at FireEye, the security firm, said in a research report covered by Reuters that the Kremlin hackers were aiming to steal the password credentials for business travelers and Western government officials using Wi-Fi networks in hotels mainly in eight countries in Europe. Benjamin Read, manager of cyber espionage analysis for U.S.-based

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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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A taxicab medallion is a numbered plate required to operate a yellow cab. The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000. It also set up an artificial floor for bids and permitted taxicab brokers and large owners to “bid up” medallion prices.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

That was established in 2014 by that same court, and enables residents of the EU to ask search engines to remove links containing their personal information. That might not mean much to companies that are not based in the EU but, because of their global operations, must conform to the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

One FI deploying ITMs on a wide scale is Tennessee-based Ascend Federal Credit Union , which first began this initiative in 2014. But by extending our operating hours and centralizing the management of our tellers, ITMs are the solution that we chose [instead].”. Keeping ITMs Secure.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

NSO makes cybersurveillance products, including Pegasus spyware, and sells them primarily to government security agencies. At the time, an NSO spokesman said that NSO doesn’t operate its systems and requires customers to use them lawfully “for the prevention and investigation of crimes.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Dan is a highly regarded leader and accomplished executive with operational expertise and over two decades of deep experience in the FinTech space. He is also an innovator who has spearheaded, built and operated two publicly-traded payments companies,” said Jacobs. 31, 2019 showed an increase in total operating revenues of $249.3

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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.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Operational Risk: Lastly, the OCC mentioned an increase in operational risk, and its intent to focus on: • Significant growth areas, new products, new or expanded services and changes in strategic direction. • Security measures to deter and detect cyber-attacks. • Changes in underwriting.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The Duma security and anti-corruption committee’s chairman, Vasily Piskaryov, told the publication that Apple is now in adherence to Russia’s constitution, noting that labeling Crimea as a Ukrainian territory was a criminal offense. Russian annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Since 2014, Mastercard’s Start Path “has invited more than 230 later-stage startups worldwide to participate in its six-month virtual program, providing technical guidance, operational support and commercial engagements within the Mastercard ecosystem,” the company said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The company was founded in 2014, and grew in Alibaba’s backyard – the city of Hangzhou. PingPong and Luxembourg’s relationship goes back to 2017, when the FinTech startup got a payments license in the region, which allowed it to operate between Chinese outfits and customers in Europe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

According to the report, 3ve (pronounced “Eve”), which is what the group called its online ad fraud campaign, was active since 2014 but could have been around for longer. The report noted that Google and several cybersecurity firms said the ad fraud scheme was named 3ve because it relies on three sub-operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

after the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.” The data, which was processed from 2007 through 2014, was accessible to developers of third-party vendors without the Facebook users providing consent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The first was that American mobile-wallet providers pretty much avoided it, starting with Apple eschewing QR codes in 2014 in favor of the higher-tech (and more secure) NFC technology. consumers could have learned to pay with QR codes, but the technology hit two major roadblocks. Second, U.S.

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BankInovation

MARCH 14, 2024

ING Bank is moving its operations to the cloud for scalability, efficiency and security. The $967 billion bank’s operations are 65% on a private cloud, Marco Eijsackers, head of the CIO office at ING, told Bank Automation News. “We Back […]

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

Bertrand was charged with 20 counts of failing to pay federal income taxes, Medicare and Social Security for the company’s employees between 2010 and 2014. Karson said that Soupman’s goal is to keep the company’s soups on grocery shelves across the country and to continue business operations as usual. was about $594,000.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

He and an accomplice operated from Nigeria, targeting the U.S., The scams netted an alleged $25 million from 2014 to 2016. “In In terms of data illuminating larger trends, the National Cyber Security Alliance found that roughly 50 percent of smaller firms have been victim of a cyberattack.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them. Banking as a service makes it far easier for [entities] from startups to multinational corporations to access and create simple, fast, secure and transparent full-fledged financial products,” Athavale said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Gerry Cotten, the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange founder who died in India in December and might have held the only access key to $143 million in crypto, said in a 2014 podcast that he stored Bitcoin for clients using paper, according to a report by Bloomberg. It’s like burning cash in a way,” Cotten said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It will work on developing and operating the blockchain-based applications that will reside in the network, with each member contributing knowledge in their respective fields. WeBank was started in 2014, and it was also the first internet bank to be licensed by the China Regulatory and Securities Commission.

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Abrigo

JULY 2, 2019

Today, most of farmers’ cash reserves that were built up in 2012-2014 are at, or nearing, depletion. If that trend continues, operating costs will begin outpacing revenue for many farms, and demand for ag financing will grow for community financial institutions. Blanket security agreements. Challenges for small ag banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. A September to Remember.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A letter sent to investors of Partner Fund Management said, “Through a series of lies, material misstatements, and omissions, the defendants engaged in securities fraud and other violations by fraudulently inducing PFM to invest and maintain its investment in the company.”. million in February 2014. Theranos, a U.S.

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Abrigo

JUNE 2, 2017

outlined the responses from 188 accounting professionals in a 2014 survey. Quicker and More Accountable Communication “In cases where your business relies on quick and clear-cut communication, cloud accounting firms provide the maximum operational value and efficiency to such business operations.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Four security firms currently investigating the matter say “yes.” “It is obviously a group of skilled operators that have some amount of experience conducting intrusions,” Phil Burdette, an incident response team leader at Dell SecureWorks, told Reuters. .” All in, victims paid out about $24.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Looking back at a time when the market was moving toward mobile, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates said his biggest mistake was not putting Microsoft in the position of Android as the largest “non-Apple” mobile operating system in the world. There’s room for exactly one non-Apple operating system and what’s that worth?

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Abrigo

JANUARY 6, 2017

To be certain, many accountants could make a full-time job out of simply trying to understand the various types of technology that can make their personal lives easier and their practices more profitable and secure. These three trends are: the progress of blockchain technology, the continued shift to the cloud, and advances in automation.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It will work on developing and operating the blockchain-based applications that will reside in the network, with each member contributing knowledge in their respective fields. WeBank was started in 2014, and it was also the first internet bank to be licensed by the China Regulatory and Securities Commission.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A security researcher discovered that credit card-stealing malware was inserted into the code of the American Cancer Society’s online store, according to TechCrunch. He said they’re a “thriving criminal underworld that has operated in the shadows for years.”. Magecart is only now becoming a household name,” he added.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Prior cyberattacks that can be connected to North Korea’s military force include the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment and a cyberheist at Bangladesh’s central bank. The Korea Financial Security Institute is now reporting a second group using Lazarus that has been attacking South Korea since 2013.

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