PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

India’s Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) has announced that the government is drafting a national framework to expand the deployment of blockchain use cases. Dhotre added that the government is drafting an approach paper on the National Level Blockchain Framework. India has been embracing blockchain technology.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Many existing community bank customers and prospects are also national bank customers. There are now many online, nationally-focused lenders that are capable of an entire virtual relationship. Scale, security, and innovation are all linked to better information technology design and implementation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Financial services firm Figure Technologies, Inc. has sought a national bank charter from the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), which will let it meet “promises of efficiency, affordability and financial inclusion,” according to a Friday (Nov. 6) announcement.

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we mostly are working remotely these days, securing your space when you’re not in the safeguards of the office walls are critical. Perficient places a high value on data security and has several processes and tools in place to protect colleague and client information, but what about the everyday person?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Smart technology is what makes ordering by voice and remotely monitoring your home possible. 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.

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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 ($8.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Banks are typically required to establish direct links with financial institutions (FIs) in other nations to make or receive cross-border payments. A recent survey found that one-third of businesses were worried about cross-border payments fraud, while 26 percent expressed data security concerns.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Conversely, mobile check deposit capture is real-time — and, depending on bank technology solutions, may provide real-time access to at least part of the funds. Edwards told Webster: “You can use modern technology to attack this fraud” and also ensure greater confidence in making services available digitally to good customers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

“As Deputy Director, Mr. Mosier oversees FinCEN’s wide-ranging work to protect the financial integrity and national security of the United States,” the release states. In the digital innovation officer role, he will work to engage with new financial innovations and technologies.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s the time of the year when we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a global initiative to raise awareness and educate people about the importance of staying safe and secure online. Launched to provide resources Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched in 2004 by the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand created a permissionless, open source and pure proof-of-stake blockchain technology. This partnership ensures that the SOV will be built on a scalable and secure platform.”.

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PYMNTS

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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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I crossriver.com.

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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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Perficient

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Specializing in cloud-based business transformation, Perficient’s new Treasury Technology practice will improve client’s global banking footprints through bank connectivity and address concerns for payment fraud. Building bank connectivity without the Kyriba solution requires costly and risky custom development. ”

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

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.”. Visa further said the technology would allow transactions using digital fiat currency “to be processed and completed immediately without requiring settlement and clearing processing.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

KRAsia reports that in Singapore, a temperature-taking tool, underpinned by artificial intelligence (AI) — called iThermo — has utilized thermal and laser technology to take the temperature of people as they walk past the tool. The pandemic may give rise to life connected by technology in ways we never imagined but will find necessary.

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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 bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. Notably, China’s central bank is already developing and testing a national digital currency in the Asian nation.

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PYMNTS

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?”. Going on the Offense. Consumers are still in love with the old form factor.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Palantir licenses the Foundry and Gotham software and offers offline technology help as well as cloud computing offerings. Its technology is meant to assist in examining information. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), telling the organization about its plans. And, in June, Palantir Technologies Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. However, the banking industry doesn’t like that one bit. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Equifax has inked a deal to purchase artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fraud prevention and digital identity technology provider Kount for $640 million. Kount’s staff members will become a part of Equifax’s United States Information Solutions (USIS) business unit and will still be based in Boise, Idaho, according to a Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Given today’s realities, adding more technology options is even more critical to ensuring faster payments across the globe," Thelen said, according to the release. The firm has also worked with the National Bank of Fujairah PJSC (NBF) in order to enable them. This isn't Ripple's first foray into cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. The bill also establishes a task force to scrutinize how, when and why the technology is used.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The United States may have some of the world's best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies. Even the U.S.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

We’ll then move to the federal level, seeking regulatory guidance as to whether digital tokens are securities under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or commodities contracts over which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has regulatory jurisdiction. State Regulations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

government networks by hijacking the system information technology vendor SolarWinds Corp. a security firm, on Thursday said its unidentified software vendor had been comprised and hackers used the access try to read Crowdstrike’s internal email, Reuters reported. The suspected Russian hackers who penetrated important U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Chinese firm Huawei Technologies is seen as being in the lead at present, as technologists in the West slog through issues around standards. We provide that network in the middle … [but] you need comprehensive IoT security architecture in any of those critical IoT environments.”. Smart Cities and 5G Threats.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The EBF represents the vast majority of the European banking sector through its membership, spanning 32 national banking associations from across Europe, which in turn encompass more than 3,500 banks. The banking sector has always been driven by technology, said Maniati, and the cloud can help underpin that resilience.

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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. The technology allows the bank to tap into Ripple ’s cross-border network and improve its user experience.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Payments Innovation Alliance, a membership group that includes financial institutions (FIs) and payment providers, has released “ Voice Payments: An Introduction and Overview ,” designed to deliver information on conversational payments and enabling technologies, including voice assistants and smart speakers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Together, the firms are developing a platform to enable faster, more secure cross-border corporate payments that would allow companies to more seamlessly move funds to beneficiaries and banks to directly share payment data with each other without the need for intermediaries.

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Abrigo

JULY 9, 2024

Takeaway 2 Financial institutions will need to incorporate FinCEN's national AML/CFT priorities into their risk assessments and compliance programs. Takeaway 3 The rule also emphasizes that AML/CFT programs must be approved and overseen by the institution’s board of directors, and it encourages the adoption of new technologies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The same framework should be in place to improve technology used by regulators in efforts to strengthen supervision throughout the industry, the think tank also says. We should not deify artificial intelligence as it could go wrong just like any other technology,” Gang said. billion by 2023, up from an estimated $4.5

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