Security & Fraud

News
Cybersecurity’s Billion Dollar Bonanza
April 20, 2015

It would be hard to argue that the year-and-a-half long spree of data breaches that has hit targets ranging from the retail store to the White House itself has been good for anything. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Will Your Next Payments Password Be Embedded, Injected Or Ingested?
April 20, 2015

The next wave in biometric ID for mobile payments will be devices that can be embedded, injected and ingested, according to a PayPal executive who’s working with developers who are working on the problem. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Western Union: 60 Percent Of Our Customers Are Migrants Doing Remittances
April 20, 2015

Roughly 60 percent of Western Union’s customers are now migrants sending money back to their home countries — and the shape of that remittance business isn’t necessarily what many payments-industry people assume. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Europe
Germany Tightens The Crowdinvesting Rules
April 20, 2015

The German government is set to roll out new rules that would limit how startups can raise funding through crowdfunding platforms, as well as who can invest, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (April 17). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

News
Retail Breaches Now Cause 59 Percent Of ID Exposures
April 20, 2015

The year 2014 saw far-reaching vulnerabilities, faster attacks when those security holes became public, files held for ransom and far more malware than ever before — and retailers were among the hardest hit, according to Symantec’s “2015 Internet Security Threat Report.” Get the Full Story...

Controversial
The Many Ways Apple Could Spend All That Cash
April 18, 2015

Most people at some point in their life dream about what they would do if they were suddenly super rich. We think of all the nice things we would buy, the good we might do and the various wonders we might work if we suddenly...

Perfecting The eCommerce Fraud Juggling Act
April 17, 2015

“The more I read about the challenges associated with fighting fraud online, the more it seems like it’s a juggling act between keeping the customer experience frictionless, having the right toolset to detect fraud and the ability to use those tools to take action in...

Will London Be The FinTech Hub For Bitcoin?
April 17, 2015

London has decided it wants to be the epicenter for bitcoin. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing...

Mobile
Discover Accounts Can Now Be Frozen Via Mobile
April 17, 2015

Discover has rolled out an exclusive feature for its consumer credit cards that lets customers block use of the card through a mobile app in near-real time, but without canceling the card, the company announced on Wednesday (April 15). Get the Full Story Complete the...