December 09, 2015
Another Cybersecurity Firm Looks To Go Public
Bloomberg Business is reporting that Blue Coat Systems has been taking pitches from investment banks for an initial public offering. This comes just nine months after the Internet security provider...
December 08, 2015
When Faster B2B Payments Mean Faster Cybercrime
As a B2B eInvoicing and payments firm, Viewpost is front-and-center to enterprise transactions. That means the company is also tasked with keeping the B2B payments process safe for its corporate...
December 07, 2015
SME Finance Statistics Galore
The year is coming to a close, and that means researchers are crunching the numbers to figure out where small businesses have been, where they are, and where they might...
December 04, 2015
Goldman’s Own Bitcoin And The $20M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
Could Goldman-coin be next? Well, it won’t exactly be called that, but maybe something along those lines. New reports indicate that Goldman Sachs is looking to develop its own version...
December 04, 2015
US-China Hash Out Cybercrime Fighting Rules
During talks in Washington, D.C., this week U.S. and Chinese officials have reached an agreement on the guidelines each country will follow when addressing malicious cyber activities or cybercrime threats....
December 03, 2015
China-US OPM Hack Blame Game, VTech’s Hacking Investigation
Could a recent investigation prove the OPM data breach was not state-sponsored after all, or is it just a move by the Chinese government to proclaim their innocence? In other...
December 02, 2015
Investigation Casts Doubt On China’s Role In OPM Hack
While China has long been suspected of launching the massive cyberattacks against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) earlier this year, a new probe into the breaches shows the...
December 01, 2015
Paysafe’s Current Accounts Safe From Past Breach
British mobile payments company Paysafe announced that the two instances of hacks, which stole data from its 7.8 million accounts, could not affect its current customer accounts. The 2010 attack on the...
December 01, 2015
EMV Alone Won’t Cure Holiday Fraud Blues
How’s EMV doing to stamp out fraud in the U.S.? According to Joe Majka, Chief Security Officer at Verifone, that’s a present that the payment industry will have to wait...
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.