PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Promising as intelligence of things (IoT) solutions are, though, security has been a stumbling block. The June IoT Tracker explores the latest advancements in IoT security and new applications of smart technology. According to the tracker, the global IoT security market is expected to increase by a 35.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Worldwide spending on information technology is expected to reach about $4 trillion in 2019, according to a report by CNBC. Those numbers come from global research and advisory firm Gartner, which also predicts that companies will spend $125 billion on cybersecurity alone in 2019. Logistics and shipping brought to their knees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. National Vulnerability Database, which is run by the U.S. The fact that they found?…?serious

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The appointed organizer for the initiative, SFB Technologies, tapped the Algorand protocol because of its scalability, speed, security and its “ability to effectively implement required compliance controls and the transaction finality needed for a national currency.” in the fall of 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Looking back at 2019, and at cryptocurrencies, we may well make the declaration that fraudsters got a lot more brazen … which may mean 2020 is the year lawmakers and regulators clamp down through a global, concerted effort to root out financial crime. million, was the lowest tally seen in years. A Grander Stage.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

India has seen a steady stream of digital payments since it locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19 , but the nation of 1.3 In July, the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) uncovered more than three dozen critical security risks last year, according to an internal government document seen by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. National Vulnerability Database, which is run by the U.S. The fact that they found?…?serious

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

So much for now will depend on the powers of in-vehicle infotainment systems — an effort that, as speakers from the National Association of Broadcasters and other organizations will discuss — will probably require closer collaborations between automotive players and media-and-content providers. Augmented and Virtual Reality.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Earlier this year , all four of Greece’s main banks were forced to enact security protocols after a data breach, and 15,000 consumer cards were canceled. Consumer information was compromised on a tourist website and Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Eurobank and the National Bank of Greece were all forced to cancel cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Fabara officially joined Visa in September of 2019, coming from Amex, where he was president of its global services group. Now four months in, he told Webster that the idea of a secure and trusted payments ecosystem is part of Visa’s “corporate DNA.” Going on the Offense. More and more, we are going after bad actors with a vengeance.

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Perficient

JUNE 30, 2022

Some of these online articles can be found here: OCC Provides Roadmap for National Banks and Savings Associations To Conduct Crypto Activities – Perficient Blogs. Billion in 2019). The paper also lays out plans to expand the resources of the Securities Commission of The Bahamas to bolster its role as the main crypto regulator.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Not to ruin your holiday spirit, but let’s start this story with the cold and brutal truth: One of the largest risks that payments and commerce operators face in 2019 is being called to account by government officials, regulators or media about a failure to secure their organizations from cyberattacks. and other places.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

By the numbers, it is hard to deny in the closing days of 2019 that instant payments, as observed by the PYMNTS Instant Payments Tracker , have hit their stride and are no longer a P2P payments tool for gig economy workers. In 2017 only 11 percent of consumers in a national study of the U.S. Here are four on that list.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

As part of a broader effort to bring the newest innovations to its operations, the National Bank of Fujairah PJSC (NBF) has teamed with blockchain firm Ripple to enable cross-border payments via the RippleNet platform. In 2019, news surfaced that PNC Bank had started to utilize RippleNet to facilitate cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

That famous literary opener could apply to the mobile order-ahead (MOA) space in 2019. As city councils all over the nation get a hankering for MOA tax revenue, the category just keeps growing and evolving. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Tons of capital was raised and spent on new systems and processes.

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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 acquisition was finalized in July 2019 for $34 billion. To learn more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s Feature Story.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

More than 100,000 eateries — or about one in six restaurants nationwide — have closed due to the pandemic, according to National Restaurant Association estimates. More than $134 million was lost to such scams in 2019, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), while $117 million was lost to them during the first half of 2020 alone.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims that a Florida digital currency trader purportedly bilked customers out of $6.8 The agency claimed that the defendant scammed investors between January 2018 and January 2019 as he purported to never finish a trading day with losses. million, CoinDesk reported. District Court.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Talk of a venture capital plummet continues to grow, particularly in Europe, where new data from Consultancy Europe revealed that the number of venture capital deals for startups across the continent has declined every quarter since Q1 2019. based small business lending platform iwoca, which secured $131.45

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Analysts say the financial struggles of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are challenging the strength of the national economy, adding pressure to a market whose gross domestic product forecast for 2019 was recently cut by Mexico’s central bank. “There are openings for companies to grab market share.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

When it comes to securities, banking and other finance products which are employing technology such as a facial recognition or big data analytics, technologies to regulate that intelligent finance have lagged behind AI development, according to a report by the China Finance 40 Forum , a platform for finance policy research and academic exchange.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Senior citizens are the demographic group most vulnerable to identity fraud, as they are often not as digitally savvy as their younger counterparts nor as adept in online security best practices. Large investments in security measures are necessary for banks to protect themselves and their customers from this menace. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continued to auction 5G bandwidth in December of 2019, with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai stating, “Pushing more spectrum into the commercial marketplace is a key component of our 5G FAST plan to advance American leadership in the next generation of wireless connectivity.”. “You

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, 2019, the average American will spend three hours and 43 minutes per day on mobile devices, just ahead of the three hours and 35 minutes spent watching television. Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center ( FFRDC ). They do, in fact, put their pants on one leg at a time.

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Perficient

AUGUST 16, 2023

Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. In 2017, the bank was converted from its National Charter to a Kansas state-chartered bank and renamed Heartland Tri-State Bank. In 2019, it expanded by buying its fourth branch from a competitor.

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BankBazaar

JULY 4, 2019

If this happens, people will be able to invest more in the Public Provident Fund , Employee Provident Fund, Life Insurance, ELSS, National Savings Certificates, National Pension Scheme, and tax-saving Fixed Deposits. The National Pension Scheme (NPS) is a popular tax-saving investment option under Section 80CCD of the Income Tax Act.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) along with national regulators are looking into ICOs on a case-by-case basis. Some of these ICOs are like a financial instrument,” European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Chair Steven Maijoor said. Obaid Saif al-Zaabi, who is the head of the U.A.E.’s

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

regulators to secure a national bank charter, in turn clearing the runway for the entity to accept consumer deposits. the value of contactless commercial card payments (both debit and credit) jumped 24 percent in 2019. Data breaches: MGM has admitted to a 2019 hack , where 10.6 million guests’ data was compromised.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We use the information that you provide to protect our national security, our financial system, our communities, and our families. The lack of beneficial ownership information collected when companies are formed is “a dangerous and widening gap in our national security apparatus,” he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

However, it does struggle in two areas: mid-band spectrum and national strategy. By the latter part of 2019, the U.S. Also, lawmakers recently introduced a wireless security bill that would favor free market competition. The wireless industry association CTIA released a report that said the U.S., and none in China.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

If they don’t report takeover attempts from abroad that could pose a risk to the country’s security, company directors in Britain could face the prospect of jail time. In December of 2019, the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson included a “national security and investment bill” in the Queen’s Speech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Across the globe, terrorists and criminals are leveraging cryptos in what is gearing up to be a significant national security threat to the United States. The report relays a series of anecdotes, such as Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent methods , and points out that in 2019, over $4.5 That’s according to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

billion in 2019, including $2.8 Some exchanges even deliberately avoid having KYC systems by obfuscating their country of origin to make it harder for regulators to impose national compliance guidelines. The latest arena for money laundering is through cryptocurrency , a burgeoning market expected to be valued at $1.4 billion by 2024.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Social Security numbers. billion in losses in 2019, according to a recent study, although it has declined from $20 billion in 2013. A major factor in this decline has been the rise of improved authentication and security systems at banks like Axis. It’s like the Social Security number in the U.S.,” Shetty explained.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

54 percent of SMBs say the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act positively impacted their businesses , new research from the National Federation of Independent Businesses said. The firm surveyed more than 300 U.S. 37 percent of SMBs said the U.S.

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