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Uber Faces Fine From France For 2016 Data Breach

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20) that it fined Uber $460,000 over its 2016 data breach that exposed the data on 57 million customers and drivers across the world. According to a report in Moneycontrol.com , the French Data Protection Authority said the data breach could have been prevented by implementing “certain elementary security measures.”

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MonetaGo, GUUD Team On Secure Transactions

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MonetaGo , which specializes in blockchain technologies, and GUUD Company , which focuses on making international trade smooth, have teamed up on international financial transaction security, MonetaGo announced in a press release. Both companies are based in Singapore. Going paperless has to happen.”.

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Biometrics Beats Blockchain at Bank Innovation 2016

Bank Innovation

Eleven companies were awarded slots in the DEMOvation Challenge, which took place yesterday here at Bank Innovation 2016, our annual first-quarter event. They were: Asignio – authentication solution Autobooks – payments and accounting software for Fis Bankfacil – Sao Paulo-based secured Read More.

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

Bank Innovation

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. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.

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Things worth reading: 20th October 2016

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include … California prosecutors open new front in Wells Fargo scandal Security breaches feared in up to 3.2

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Top 10 Blockchain Headlines of 2016

Bank Innovation

Blockchain—possibly the buzziest of buzzwords in 2016. The world saw the rise of new enterprise blockchains, how the technology might be used to transport gold, to safely move perishable items like pork through a supply chain, and most importantly for those of us in the fintech trenches, we saw banks, Read More.

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Microsoft Issues Emergency Internet Explorer Security Update

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Microsoft issued an emergency security update for Internet Explorer after hackers were able to exploit a new flaw in several versions of the browser. Unfortunately, the security issue come right before what is expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year: the Saturday before Christmas.

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