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Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend

Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend
Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend
March 25, 2019  |  Mastercard

The current best-in-class method of payment for a ride on a subway in any American city works just fine – until it doesn’t. Loading funds...

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Fixing The KYC And AML ‘Horse-and-Buggy’ Model
Fixing The KYC And AML ‘Horse-and-Buggy’ Model
March 25, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Only 1 percent of proceeds from financial crimes are intercepted, which means the bad guys are getting away with hundreds of billions of dollars, even...

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Samsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
Samsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
March 25, 2019  |  Payment Methods

For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way of life – even if they aren’t exactly familiar with the...

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The Move To Regulate IoT
The Move To Regulate IoT
March 22, 2019  |  Intelligence of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial use cases —...

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iOffer Putting A Dent In The $1.5T Counterfeit Goods Business
iOffer Putting A Dent In The $1.5T Counterfeit Goods Business
March 22, 2019  |  Mastercard

In the U.S. and worldwide, counterfeiting is a large, lucrative business worth between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion annually, according to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition...

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What’s In Your ‘Citizen Wallet?’
What’s In Your ‘Citizen Wallet?’
March 22, 2019  |  Innovation

Government moves at its own pace, for better or worse or both, but that pace can provide opportunities for fraud and expensive errors – mistakes and...

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FDA eCig Crackdown Boosts Appeal Of Online Authentication
FDA eCig Crackdown Boosts Appeal Of Online Authentication
March 21, 2019  |  Authentication

It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores)...

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Wirecard On The True Path To B2B Payments Innovation
Wirecard On The True Path To B2B Payments Innovation
March 21, 2019  |  Innovation

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. That’s the easy part, the stuff of daydreams, scribbles, memos, charts and PowerPoint presentations. What’s harder...

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Will Faster Payments Spur Healthcare Innovation?
Will Faster Payments Spur Healthcare Innovation?
March 21, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Healthcare is an undoubtedly complicated space for all the players involved (the providers, insurers, patients, pharmaceutical manufacturers), particularly when it comes to payments. Not an...

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