March 13, 2017
UK’s Terrorism Reinsurance Fund Wants To Expand Coverage To Include...
The U.K. government’s £6 billion ($7.3 billion) terrorism reinsurance fund — set up to assist insurers paying out claims on property damage and business interruption — would like to extend...
March 13, 2017
SEC Charges ex-iPayments Executives With Million Dollar Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday (March 11) that it has lodged charges against two ex-executives at a credit card processing company for masterminding a scheme to steal millions of dollars...
March 10, 2017
Shedding Light On The Darknet
With emerging technologies and new customer trends constantly impacting the way consumers pay, information security can often be an afterthought on the path to innovation. In the latest installment of...
March 10, 2017
Credit Unions Want SMEs Held To Same Cybersecurity Standards
While credit unions and banks are tasked with protecting payment information, small businesses should also be playing their part in that cybersecurity effort, said one credit union executive. According to reports...
March 10, 2017
The Best Defense Against The Worst (Cyber)Offenses
Cybercrime is ever present and ever bolder as bad guys seek to topple the most basic building blocks of how we live, interact and shop, on a nationwide and even...
March 09, 2017
New Report Finds IT Cybersecurity Shortage Hurting Companies In Fight...
A new report from CyberEdge Group, a research and marketing firm serving the cybersecurity industry’s top vendors, has found that ransomware incidents are at an all-time high, with one-third of...
March 09, 2017
Comey On FBI’s POV On Cybercrime
FBI Director James Comey discussed cybersecurity issues at a Boston College cybersecurity conference this week, highlighting that Americans should let go of their expectations of “absolute privacy.” “There is no...
March 09, 2017
Alphabet’s Nest Working On More Affordable Smart Home Tech
A high price of entry could prove to be an impediment to growth for the burgeoning smart home market. Alphabet Inc.’s Nest is reportedly vying for a larger piece of the...
March 08, 2017
AppsFlyer Unifies Mobile Marketing Attribution, Sees $56M Series C
Investment activity for the week that ended March 4 roughly doubled from previous levels, as the fund flow hit about $1.7 billion dollars. The bulk of that tally came from...
Digital bill pay, while routine for most consumers, poses challenges such as fraud, friction and limited payment options — particularly in the utilities sector, where consumer trust is low. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how billers and financial institutions can earn trust among consumers.
There’s no shame in asking for help. Eighty-two percent of merchants experienced a cyber or data breach in the last year, and PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 300 eCommerce executives, “Fraud Management in Online Transactions,” a collaboration with Nuvei, details merchants’ thoughts about fraud prevention, finding that outsourced methods correlate with fewer failed payments.