November 19, 2015
US Officials Mum About Fed’s Massive Breach
Officials from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reportedly refused to attend a congressional briefing on Tuesday (Nov. 17) to examine how the agency handled the massive data breach...
November 18, 2015
UK Readies Cyberattack Plan Against ISIS
The U.K. is taking major steps to boost its cyber defenses and surveillance in the wake of terrorist attacks around the world.
November 17, 2015
Trust Guard Rolls Out Security Scanning Website
Web security and data protection company Trust Guard is expanding its business to Europe with the launch of a new website aimed at serving international clients. While Trust Guard has...
November 17, 2015
First Data/NCR Ink Commercial Deal
First Data, the eCommerce company, and payments hardware giant NCR Corp. are now partners in a strategic agreement, the two companies said on Monday (Nov. 16). Financial terms remain undisclosed....
November 16, 2015
Supplier Payments, CFO Performance And Greece’s Economic Shrinkage
Last week, numbers flew. New data emerged about the economic impact of capital controls on Greece’s small businesses, a major corporation was rumored to be eyeing the sale of its...
November 13, 2015
Is FireEye’s Earnings Miss Really About Less Cyber Attacks?
Last week cybersecurity firm FireEye not only fell short of investor expectations when their earnings were released, but the company also laid part of the blame for its disappointing results...
November 13, 2015
Where CFOs Feel The Cash Flow Pressure
Chief financial officers are always worried about their corporation’s money — that’s their job. But new research from the Financial Executives Research Foundation and consulting firm Protiviti pinpointed just how...
November 13, 2015
Rebuilding Banking, One Click At a Time
From tellers to apps, checks to clicks, and warm pleasantries to fun interfaces — banking is being reimagined, deconstructed and revamped. The all-new PYMNTS Digital Banking TrackerTM, powered by Urban FT, offers a bird’s-eye view...
November 11, 2015
The Growing Threat To Online Bank Accounts
5,686,755 That’s the number of registered notifications, according to Kaspersky Security Network’s data, of attempted malware infections aiming to steal money through online bank account access in Q3 of 2015. 145,137,553....
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.