DOJ May Intervene in Visa Acquisition of Plaid
Apparently the DOJ considers Plaid a key infrastructure component for next generation financial apps, and in a bit of a...
Database Technology Remains Competitive with Blockchains for Many Applications
In October 2016, Mercator Advisory Group released a framework to identify if a specific use case aligned with the features...
PayPal Adds Ability to Buy/Sell and Use Crypto, Cost of Bitcoin Spikes
With 346 million active user accounts globally, PayPal's announcement that it will enable its users to buy and sell crypto...
Avoiding Fraud as Faster Payments Cranks up the Tempo
An article from PaymentsSource points out that the new Nacha WEB Debit Account Validation rules may help reduce fraud in...
Put Statistics in a Blender and Get a Delicious Fraud Smoothie
This article in Fintechnews Singapore combines a lot of disparate sources to sketch a picture of fraud. It combines surveys...
Will Behavioral Biometrics Be Added to 3-D Secure to Enhance Fraud Detection?
This opinion piece in The Paypers argues that behavioral biometrics added to a cardholder challenge would strengthen the step-up process....
While Everyone Focuses on E-commerce, Don’t Forget PCI Compliance at the POS
This Forbes article argues that the pandemic has shifted consumers away from cash to cards, and that while everyone has...
Amazon Piloting Palm Readers in Amazon Go Stores
Amazon is piloting palm readers at two Amazon Go stores and hopes to eventually make the device ubiquitous by offering...
Smart Appliances Are Easy to Hack. Even Your Coffee Maker Is at Risk.
Who would think appliance manufacturers would be great internet security software developers? Who expects appliance manufacturers to offer software updates...
IBM Joins the Race to Payments in the Cloud
IBM has announced that its Financial Transaction Manager software has been ported to operate in a Kubernetes container on the...
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