January 20, 2017
FinTechs Create Group To Access Banking Data
A handful of U.S. FinTech startups are creating an industry group to to be given the right for consumers to share their bank data with outside parties. According to a...
January 20, 2017
Investors Frugal – But Varied – In B2B FinTech Funding
Venture capitalists were fairly conservative in their B2B FinTech funding activities this week – a few million here, another couple million there. But they were varied: investments landed across industries,...
January 19, 2017
Cyberattacks: Are Russian Hackers, or Squirrels to Blame?
Though Russia may be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about threats to America’s cybersecurity, one cybersecurity expert is asking people to think smaller. Cris Thomas tracks...
January 18, 2017
Card-Not-Present Fraud Picking Up In US
Card-not-present (CNP) fraud is increasing as cyber thieves are showing they are quite able to use both technology and stolen payment card data to defraud retailers around the world. That’s...
January 17, 2017
Voice Activated Tracker: Alexa Goes Hollywood
They grow up so fast. Amazon’s Alexa has come a long way in the just over two years since its initial release. What started as an experiment in the AI...
January 17, 2017
College Pays Off Hackers With $28K In Bitcoin
There are some downsides to life in the digital age, as a college in the U.S. state of California recently found out the hard way. In late December, Los Angeles...
January 17, 2017
Internet Of Things Identity Access Management Mkt Set To Grow
The IoT Identity Access Management (IAM) market is expected to explode in the coming years, with Research and Markets projecting the market size to go from $1.1 billion in 2016...
January 16, 2017
Cybersecurity Startup WISeKey India Surpasses Funding Expectations
Cybersecurity firm WISeKey India revealed it surpassed expectations when it opened up its first seed round of funding, securing $1.3 million in investment, reports said Friday (Jan. 13). The company,...
January 13, 2017
Hacker Tracker: Neutralizing ATM Jackpotting
Fraudsters today are going big and going home — with lots of dough. By this, we mean that the traditional attacks on credit cards and bank accounts that the payments...
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.