February 02, 2016
Landry’s Defines Payments Breach Scope
In Las Vegas, the house always wins. But in the seedy underbelly of the Internet, there’s nothing casinos can do when lax cybersecurity policies leave backdoors wide open to hackers...
February 01, 2016
Inside JPMorgan’s Half-Billion Dollar Cybersecurity Bet
Back in August we learned that JPMorgan Chase had plans to double its cybersecurity spending budget to about $500 million by 2016. That move followed remarks from CEO Jamie Dimon...
January 28, 2016
Why IoT’s Future Rests In Israel
Just like every hurricane has an eye at the center that feeds the whole storm system, it’s not entirely inaccurate to suggest that the explosion of tech development over the...
January 28, 2016
Is It Time To Cash In PINs For Biometrics?
There’s plenty of debates in the financial services market about the merit of PINs and one-time passwords as it relates to mobile security. Much like the chip-and-PIN versus chip-and-signature debate,...
January 28, 2016
Wendy’s Investigates Possible Credit Card Breach
Recent happenings at America’s third-largest burger chain are not very tasty. Yesterday (Jan. 27), Krebs on Security — having heard from banking industry sources that a pattern of fraud had been...
January 28, 2016
Google’s Next Play: Facial Recognition Smartphones
Four digit, PIN-based passwords might soon be a thing of past on Android phones, as Google is developing its facial recognition technology to authenticate users and grant access. The company is...
January 27, 2016
Capital One’s Latest Gauge Of Corporate Treasury Habits
Treasury management, like so many other functions of a business, is moving online and into the cloud. There are also more high-tech treasury management solutions available to corporate finance professionals...
January 27, 2016
How Cybersecurity Startups Plan To Outsmart Hackers
Cybersecurity startups are increasingly investing in developing ultra-smart anti-fraud tools to protect against maturing, new age cybercriminals. The increased investment activity and development efforts in the cybersecurity arena come in...
January 27, 2016
Investments Even Out And HopSkipDrive Cruises To $10.2M
While there are any number of services that have tried to offer the “Uberized” version of almost every service — dry cleaning, dinner delivery, grocery shopping, the list is almost...
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.