July 01, 2016
Diamonds Glitter As A Cyberfraud Target
Diamond heists are now possible across the Internet. For one firm, James Allen, adopting technology that can speed approval rates and root out fraud is important, but so is the...
June 30, 2016
ACLU Challenges Constitutionality Of Anti-Hacking Law
The American Civil Liberties Union heads to federal court to fight the constitutionality of an anti-hacking law. Upon reviewing the lawsuit, Reuters reported on Wednesday (June 29) that the ACLU...
June 27, 2016
Twitter Launches Foursquare Location Tags
Twitter might be filled with more spice than nice, but there’s no doubt that tweeting has solved the issues of communicating with fellow users no matter where they are. Now,...
June 24, 2016
How Berlin Earns Its ‘Startup Capital’ Reputation
In Berlin, “one born every 20 minutes” is a well-known claim of the startup ecosystem. Not only are aspiring entrepreneurs flocking to the city, but its low cost of living...
June 23, 2016
Insider Insights: Big Banks And Managing Cybersecurity Risks
It was the cyberheist heard around the world — and one that’s been creating quite the stir since it happened in February. That cyberheist, of course, is the case of...
June 23, 2016
Rippleshot Gets ABA Support
The Corporation for American Banking, a subsidiary of the American Bankers Association, has endorsed Rippleshot’s Sonar card compromise detection tool, the companies said on Wednesday (June 22). The Sonar product...
June 21, 2016
Twitter’s $150M Machine-Learning Acquisition
Twitter is bolstering its machine-learning capabilities with the new acquisition of Magic Pony Technology. The London-based company provides neural network solutions for advanced visual processing. Twitter is planning to use Magic Pony in...
June 17, 2016
Apple’s Play To Learn User Habits
Apple is walking the tightrope between wanting to know more about its users’ mobile habits without violating their privacy. The company is using a new technology called “differential privacy” to...
June 16, 2016
Pleo Plies Smart Corporate Cards
Pleo has introduced corporate cards that can be used in person or virtually and can coordinate with expense reporting, via tech, in a "smart" way, as CEO Jeppe Rindom explains.
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand