November 22, 2016
NSA Chief Gets Candid On State Of US Cybersecurity
NSA Chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command Adm. Michael Rogers sat down with the Wall Street Journal recently to discuss the ever-growing threats to cybersecurity and some of...
November 22, 2016
Asia-Pacific’s Anti-Cash Migration Spreads To Corporates
Researchers forecast mobile payments to account for $1 trillion in transactions next year. And while that trend is universal, the Asia-Pacific region is a particular hotbed for mobile FinTech. “Smartphone...
November 22, 2016
The 3 Forces Behind T&E Software Growth
The corporate travel space is changing shape, no doubt. First to come to mind is the entrance of on-demand and sharing economy services, like Uber and Airbnb, into the game. These...
November 22, 2016
Why Insider Threats Are Hurting North American Businesses
A new report from Kaspersky Lab revealed that company employees are among the leading cyberthreats to North American companies. According to the “Business Perception of IT Security: In the Face...
November 21, 2016
How Corporates Receive — And Revive — Investment Strategies
Businesses today are extra careful about where they place their money — if they invest at all, that is. This week, we take a look at how companies are investing....
November 18, 2016
Bitcoin Tracker: KeepKey Keeps Currency Promise
The price of bitcoin saw a steady rise this week after briefly dipping down below 700. The price as of the time of writing sits around $745. —— For this week’s...
November 18, 2016
Alibaba And Tencent Back China Cybersecurity Law
China’s recently launched cybersecurity law is getting the support of Alibaba and Tencent Holdings. According to a report by Fortune, Alibaba and Tencent said during the World Internet Conference in China that...
November 18, 2016
Has The Age Of Information Warfare Arrived?
The latest threat predictions for 2017 paint a grim picture of what cybercriminals have up their sleeve for the year ahead. It’s no surprise that hackers are expected to only...
November 18, 2016
US, Asia Battle For Top B2B FinTech Funding
KPMG had some bad news for the FinTech world this week. Along with CB Insights, KPMG researchers found in their latest quarterly analysis that FinTech investment by venture capitalists declined...
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.