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JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In the inaugural QR Code Payments Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of QR codes, including new implementations at retailers and payment providers, the security concerns facing this payment method, and the pandemic’s effect on the development and rollout of QR code-enabled payment options.

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MAY 16, 2020

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation.

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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 To remedy the problem, the Reserve Bank of India supports an option for offline payments through cards, wallets and mobile devices. In July, the National Payments Corp.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards.

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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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APRIL 2, 2020

The commercial credit card is increasingly viewed as a critical tool for these small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of fast access to credit, but many financial institutions are going further to nix fees on their card programs, including card products for small firms. Comdata Fuel Cards Facilitate Factoring.

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Afterpay does not perform a hard credit check on users, but it can still affect credit if users have a credit card as the form of payment connected to their Afterpay account or if they fail to pay back their loans. And, I didn’t have to pay interest, so I’d say Afterpay worked out for me well in this instance.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Now four months in, he told Webster that the idea of a secure and trusted payments ecosystem is part of Visa’s “corporate DNA.” Regardless of the product or initiative, every conversation starts and ends with a single overriding question: “Is it secure?”. And there’s the fact that consumers still love and use their physical cards.

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JUNE 8, 2020

United Nations global blockchain expert Massimo Buonomo has foreseen a future where digital currencies could replace low-interest bank accounts, Coindesk reports.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The National Restaurant Association ’s initial 2020 outlook was bright, as it projected sales just shy of $900 billion. Most customers bypass restaurants entirely when trying to perpetrate chargeback fraud , with 76 percent of cardholders going directly to their payment card issuers.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The cybercriminals demanded $6 million in ransom with a promise that they would not release the sensitive information of Travelex customers, including birthdates and credit card numbers. They claimed to have birthdates, credit card information and national insurance numbers and demanded the $6 million payment.

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JUNE 13, 2019

It’s undeniably advantageous to the world economy, with a recent study finding that national digital ID systems could induce GDP growth of up to 13 percent. The Drawbacks of Complex Security. AI Solutions for Balancing Security and Convenience. Blockchain-Based Security Methods. More than 4.5

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JANUARY 8, 2020

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. A multitude of security issues continue to plague the space, however, despite this optimistic future of digital identity.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. In addition, U.K.

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MAY 19, 2020

Around 90 percent of users were Brazilian customers, although other nationalities were also present, including customers from Peru,” Sen told The Hacker News. The leaked information includes name, mother’s maiden name, date of birth, nationality, gender, username and nicknames, recent purchases, phone number, and email and home addresses.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Visa teams up with Razorpay to debut a small business commercial card solution, while Nets is working with Yoba Smart Money to develop small business payment tools. Razorpay, Visa Team for SMB Corporate Cards. Emirates NBD Debuts Omnichannel Corporate Banking Program.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Beware the credit card test. There may be no escaping credit card fraud, as it comes in one form or another. Overall, one subset of card fraud is on the rise: Last year, Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab said credit card testing was up triple-digit percentage points on an annualized basis.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Those less tech-savvy individuals represent juicy targets for fraudsters, who have been fine-tuning card-not-present (CNP) schemes to work across all manner of channels during the pandemic as we wield smartphones to make transactions or bank over the phone. It’s the same story, and the same things that we’ve seen, all over again.”.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The telecommunications industry is but one of many sectors looking to more securely verify customers and avoid fraud, which remains a growing problem. One study found that these apps will outnumber phy sical identity cards by 2023, with this trend being driven largely by national ID programs in emerging markets. More than 6.2

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

National bank RAKBANK , headquartered in the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, has teamed up with Mastercard to introduce corporate payment solutions, Zawya reported Wednesday (Jan. It also provides efficient monitoring of travel and entertainment expenses via the SmartData expense monitoring and management tool.

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JUNE 26, 2020

But it was a startup wielding the corporate card to enable digital lunch vouchers for employees that landed the largest round of the week. Utility account aggregation company Urjanet secured $14.65 Some startups focused on data aggregation to expand underwriting capabilities, while others operate platforms to facilitate financing.

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secured a significant card processing deal. the fourth-largest pizza store chain in the nation. But Vantiv didn’t just secure the payments volume in its 3,300 stores. Last week, Vantiv Inc. And the payments industry barely noticed. It should have.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Launched in the Ukraine a decade ago, the internet-based cybercriminal enterprise stole identities, compromised debit and credit cards and personal, financial and banking information and spread computer malware, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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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. Making sure customers can access banking services with ease is crucial — but so is keeping those services secure.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Attorney General William Barr said that while cryptocurrency could fundamentally transform how human beings interact and how we organize society, “ensuring that use of this technology is safe and does not imperil our public safety or our national security is vitally important to America and its allies.”.

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MAY 16, 2019

A recent report from KrebsonSecurity said that “until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. One big reason, according to the report? In April, news emerged concerning the QSR chain Chipotle.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The Department Of Homeland Security ( DHS ) is lengthening the enforcement deadline for REAL ID because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a statement. It sought to increase security standards for drivers’ licenses made by the states. The REAL ID launch serves as the last part of an act Congress ratified in 2005 following 9/11.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Phone scammers claiming to be from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are saying they have a vaccine to cure the coronavirus (COVID-19), and are asking for credit card and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting victims to reserve it, according to a report by The Verge. Do not fall prey!” Thank you.”.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

50 crores (about $7 million) will have to offer customers electronic payment modes like debit cards, powered by RuPay, according to a report by LiveMint. . RuPay is a payment network offered by National Payments Corp. The finance ministry in India passed a new regulation saying that companies with sales of more than ?50

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

She, alongside Stripe Business Lead of Treasury Tara Seshan and City National Bank Executive Vice President of Treasury Management Solutions Verna Grayce Chao , agreed that the embrace of bank- FinTech collaboration has proliferated the opportunity to drive embedded business banking experiences.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The national unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1969 in April 2019 — 3.6 This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. The number of activated payroll cards in the U.S.

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi said it was “able to confirm that no funds, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, passports, licenses, bank account information, nor similar non-public identification information was exposed as a result of this incident.”. dollars and Ukrainian hryvnias.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As of late December, 40 states were compliant with the law (designed to bring a higher level of security, and confidence, to personal ID documents), as Jumio CRO Robert Prigge told Karen Webster in a new PYMNTS interview. However, progress continued, and as of Jan.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Data privacy and security is becoming a popular political issue, and the latest proof of that came Thursday (March 7) on Capitol Hill. The hearing took place at a time of increasing scrutiny for online privacy and security. During a hearing for the U.S. Equifax disclosed the hack in September of 2017.

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