Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2018

The Internet of Things is notoriously insecure — unsecured, or poorly secured IoT devices have contributed to a number of cyberattacks, and these are on the rise as the number of devices increases. There are more than 8 billion connected devices today, with over 20 billion estimated for 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Commercial and consumer cards issued in the U.S. trillion in spending for goods and services in 2018, The Nilson Report said in a press release Thursday (Sept. Commercial card spending is up 11.7 percent, compared to consumer card spending, which grew by 10.1 Commercial card spending was $1.39 generated $6.13

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Retailers must protect customers’ card data from hackers who try to snatch payment details, and following best practices to ensure security requires adhering to the regulations established by the PCI SSC, a global payments industry forum. This is a sharp decline from 2018, when 42 percent of such providers said the same.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Enter 3-D Secure 2.0. Specification, a messaging protocol that allows consumers to be authenticated to card issuers during card-not-present transactions. That authentication can also extend to activities that are decidedly non-payment in nature, such as when an individual adds a payment card to his or her digital wallet.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Now, in addition to car and personal loans on behalf of retail and institutional investors, Zopa will introduce savings accounts this week, to be followed by the addition of credit cards later this year. But it plans to avoid the interest-free introductory deals common among the nation’s credit card market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

A company called Glint Pay has launched a debit card that’s backed by gold instead of currency, according to a report in The Denver Post. The card was released in the U.S. The debit card was introduced early in 2018 in Europe. Users are then given a debit card, licensed by Mastercard USA. on Monday (July 29).

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Accenture

MAY 30, 2019

Each quarter, Ryan Douglas from the Card Issuing group compiles key metrics on US consumer credit cards, tracking spend, receivables, loss rates and returns reported by the largest US banks. Banks appear optimistic about the economic outlook but expect more moderate growth than 2018. Key themes. New partnerships.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

AeroGrow, maker of the at-home garden kit AeroGarden, has revealed that its website was infected with credit card scraping malware for more than four months. Upon learning of the incident, we immediately removed the malicious code and secured the website,” the company wrote in a letter to customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion , wrote this AI-focused piece as part of our 2018 year-end eBook. . 3, 2018, the U.S. For example, in the context of a wire transfer, first is the transaction layer securing individual transactions such as currency deposits/withdrawals, wire transfers and checks.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Two speakers have joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2018 for fireside chats: Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of Internet of Things at Visa, and Adam Ludwin, CEO of blockchain startup Chain. Arumugam was previously head of next-generation payment products at JPMorgan Chase, as well as senior products manager at PayPal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The 2018 predictions seem more like a laundry list of trends and tactics that’ve emerged over the last several years than a discussion of the profound impact these trends have had on the consumer and business payments experience. It’s seemingly all about tactics these days. Starting with mobile wallets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

Japan-based credit card and payment firm JCB has announced a partnership with tech startup accelerator TECHFUND to explore the idea of a payment system with blockchain options, the company said on Friday (May 15). JCB, one of the biggest credit card operator in Japan, has also worked with blockchain before, partnering with U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One proxy was spotlighted as the 17 largest crypto merchant processing services took in as much as $411 million in September 2017, but only $6o million in May of 2018. The net cost of a Bitcoin transaction is far more than a credit card transaction.”

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption. Then came checks, credit cards and wire transfers, with the most recent market explosion in several digital payment options. Historically, cash was king.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect May of 2018, has had some serious repercussions on tech companies all over Europe, but especially in the U.K. You have allowed nearly £1k of fraudulent transactions on my card. Deliveroo replied to the comment and the money was refunded later the same day.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. This makes data security of utmost importance to CUs, but even attacks on unrelated third parties can be devastating to CU members. percent in 2016.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

million fine for lacking the proper security measures that might have prevented a hacker in 2018 from exposing the financial details of more than 400,000 customers, the U.K.'s British Airways (BA) must pay a $25.8 s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said on Friday (Oct. Although $25.8 s biggest data breaches.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2018

With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard , qualified security assessors are going to be in more demand and can offer tokenization as one way of achieving compliance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

There are significant segments of the American consumer base that appreciate the pay-as-you-go aspect, convenience and trusted security of debit,” he said. And security and safety is particularly top of mind with consumers today in the pandemic.”. The Shift To Safety.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

A new report has revealed that Fortnite’s in-game currency is being used to launder money from stolen credit cards. According to a report by The Independent and cybersecurity firm Sixgill , a hacker will access someone else’s credit card information, and then use it to create a Fortnite account and buy V-bucks, which is the game’s currency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

TSYS , a payment processing company, has suffered a ransomware attack and had some data posted online, according to a report from Krebs on Security. However, TSYS said the malware didn't jeopardize card data and that the attack had only targeted the company's administrative wing. "We This matter is immaterial to the company.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

percent more than those who shopped online on Black Friday in 2018, demonstrating the continuation of a much longer and broader transition that has been driving more consumers to shop online with each passing year. percent decrease in the share who did so in 2018. percent of Black Friday eCommerce shoppers who paid via credit card.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the company back then. YellowPepper will help integrate more easily with Visa Direct, Visa's real-time push payments platform, Visa B2B Connect, its non-card-based B2B network and value-added services.

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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. billion and $1.34

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency lending platform Vauld raised $2 million to expand into full banking services, including issuing credit and debit cards and providing fiat and crypto order books, CoinDesk reported. The SEC claimed that Qin and the company have been misleading investors since 2018 over Sigma Fund’s financial condition, assets and strategy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

That appears to concern many businesses as 74 percent of recruiters stated in 2018 that they expected to more intensely vie against other firms to attract new hires in 2020. This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. rose from 3.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The November edition of the PYMNTS Digital Banking Tracker , a Feedzai collaboration, features an interview about how credit unions can attain AI, a scorecard of industry players and the latest headlines surrounding AIs, digital security and new digital banks. percent cash back on debit card transactions.

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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

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter finding is a marked shift from our 2018 study, in which just 27.3 While banks are putting AI to use chiefly in payment services for security-related functions like system security (69.2 The concentration of interest in these three units represents a marked shift from 2018, when the largest share of FIs (50.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. This represents a fivefold increase from the pre-pandemic normal, when most consumers shopping online were better attuned to security protocol.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The partnerships are part of a larger plan by Lloyds Bank to enhance its online banking offerings, an initiative that began in 2018. The bank has designated $3.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Chang’s rolled out its mobile ordering app in August 2018, but its rewards program has been in place since July 2015. Chang’s utilizes numerous security features to protect itself and its customers from account takeovers, brute force attacks and other cybercrimes. The Secret Sauce Of Security. Cooking Up A Fresh App .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

billion per year in incremental growth between 2018 and 2023. Facial authentication and cloud-based subscription services are particularly popular, with applications ranging from unlocking personal smartphones to providing secure access to top-secret government facilities. EMV Cards Face Crucial Verification Security Gaps.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The company said in a FAQ on its website that the breach was discovered in late December 2018, and that “a file containing some of our user data was obtained by an unauthorized third party.”. Once its security team became aware of the issue, it immediately launched an investigation with assistance from a leading forensics firm.

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