Square Has 90 Million Email Addresses and Sends Only a Small % of Receipts to the Wrong Person
This article in the Wall Street Journal describes the negative impact for the consumer and shop owner when a receipt...
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Taking the Pain out of Healthcare Payments
“How much will this doctor’s visit cost?” It seems such a simple question, but for many people, the answer is...
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IBM, Mastercard, Microsoft, and Others Plan To Give The Power Of Identity Back To The People
This article in Finextra reviews the principles laid out in Mastercard’s new white paper “Restoring Trust in a Digital World.”...
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Credit Card Data: Sifting, Sorting, & Selecting
Remember the Rime of the Ancient a Mariner? Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” said Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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The 2019 MIT Fintech Conference: A Show Review
On Friday, March 8, I attended the 2019 MIT Fintech Conference at the Aloft Boston Seaport Hotel in downtown Boston....
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Why You Should be Using a Multi-Factored Authentication Process
One of the biggest challenges that IT professionals face today is the ever more urgent need for tight security. Services...
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Data Monetization 101: A Road Map to Safe Data Monetization
Who doesn’t like to get more out of what they’ve already got? Organizations already collect tons of data about consumer...
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Reports A 480% Increase in Data Breaches
The number of breaches reported by financial institutions has increased dramatically: “The number of data breaches reported by UK financial...
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Surveillance Capitalism: Where Do We Go From Here?
This article in the NYT Bits section discusses Shoshana Zuboff’s book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” an interesting look at...
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Chinese Credit Card Data: Know Too Much, or No, Too Much
One of the important factors about credit cards is that they account for usage. Banks and merchants must balance and...
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