Merchants Need Better Defenses against Bots
The famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner depicting a dog at a computer saying “on the internet, nobody...
Can Apple or Amazon Really Become a Bank?
This article by Ron Shevlin in Forbes pivots off of a blog post by Chris Dixon which evaluated how successful...
Apple Pay and Other Mobile Payments Struggling to Penetrate US Market
CNBC has published an article that utilizes data from Bain Research to compare mobile payment adoption across multiple countries and...
European Banking Authority Identifies Approved Methods for Biometrics
This article in Computer Business Review looks at some of the biometrics that are explicitly approved by the European Banking...
Investors Pumping Money Into Investment Robots
As if venture capital funding wasn’t enough, the investment community is pouring money into the effort to discover new signals...
New Guidelines Significantly Impacting Cryptocurrecy Exchanges
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization that coordinates activities to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing across...
Networks Get 18 Month Reprieve on 2 Factor Authentication for E-Commerce in the UK
The European Banking Administration (EBA) dropped a time bomb on the networks June 21 when it issued the opinion that...
Here’s Why You Don’t Store Biometrics in a Honeypot: Use Fido!!
Forbes reports that a security company lost almost 28 million records, including loads of biometric data such as fingerprints and...
Uh-Oh! Is Apple Expanding the Restriction on NFC to Include Mobile Identity?
This article identifies the next move by Apple to lock banks out of its market by restricting access to core...
A Study of Mobile Security Advances Identifies the Need for Broader Consumer Protection Laws
This article in Forbes describes security issues associated with worldwide advances in mobile payments. One observation made is that mobile...
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