tokenization

Google Says Employee Security Key Program A Success Against Phishing

Google has claimed a success in its fight against employee phishing scams, telling reporters that none of its more than 85,000 employees...

Risk Management

How Dallas Cowboys’ Lewis Neal Wants Companies To Tackle Data Security

From blocking and tackling on the gridiron to blocking and tackling Internal threats and hackers – and quantum computers? HyperSpace board member...

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Data

Why Tokenized Data Remains Vulnerable

Beyond the buzzword that is tokenization, the reality is that replacing sensitive data with unique identifiers is not the bulletproof method that...

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Risk Management

The Use Case For Network Tokens

When it comes to personally identifiable information (PII), the words of Gandalf are a good rule for individuals to live by: “Keep...

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VISA

Visa Invests In YellowPepper To Accelerate Mobile Payments Adoption

To accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and tokenization in Latin America and the Caribbean, Visa has made an investment in YellowPepper,...

Tokenization Sets B2B Payments On A Path To Security, Speed

Payments security is an increasingly critical component for businesses on both sides of a B2B transaction today. WEX’s Payments Pulse Data report...

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Rambus Takes Tokenization To Real-Time Payments

Data technology firm Rambus is introducing a new solution for central banks and clearing houses to heighten security of payments using tokenization....

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News

FitPay CEO: Tokenization And Wearables Mean Identities Are Our Data

Beyond the fitness tracker, wearables are catching on. Get ready for the device as data conduit, as tracker of different sorts, from...

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Mastercard: Secure Remote Commerce Will Accelerate Unified Digital Checkout

It’s easy to take for granted how consistent in-store payments with cards have become for consumers; there isn’t a lot of mystery...

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Another Cloudless Day: IntraNext Software Saves Call Centers From Migrating

Everyone talks about moving to the cloud, and doing so can certainly deliver benefits in a contact center environment. It creates ease...

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Mastercard

Mastercard And MegaFon Partner For Mobile Pay

Mastercard and MegaFon have introduced two joint initiatives that will allow subscribers to link their mobile phone accounts to Apple Pay or...

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Uphold Acquires Mobile Payments Platform Cortex MCP

In a move to strengthen its digital money platform with secure payment applications, Uphold has acquired Cortex MCP. Cortex’s CEO and Founder,...

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Blockchain

Will Blockchain Tech Deliver Harmony In Music IP Management?

It’s hard to separate the headlines, sometimes, beyond the vagaries of huge price swings in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It’s hard, sometimes, to...

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Tokenization: The Security Key For Call Centers

Call centers are fast becoming a fraudster favorite. Why? Because they’re just so darn inviting. Committing fraud over the phone in a...

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Tokenization’s Value Beyond Payments

Tokenization is a vanguard in the fight against card not present fraud – but is flexible enough to protect just about any...

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Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin An Enron In The Making?

Billionaire investor and Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal dismissed Bitcoin on Monday (Oct. 23), saying on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he...

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Mastercard Certifies TCH As Token Services Provider

The Clearing House and Mastercard announced news on Thursday (Oct. 19) that they are partnering to enable The Clearing House (TCH) to...

Rambus Brings Apple Pay To eftpos Cardholders

On Tuesday (Oct. 17), Rambus, Inc. announced news of a partnership with domestic Australian debit network eftpos. The collaboration will allow eftpos...

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Rambus CTO On Tokenization, Part Deux

The latest iteration of EMVCo’s Payment Tokenization Specification has the potential to change the way we shop – even as it changes...

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Digital Payments

Marqeta Simplifies Real World Applications For Tokenized Cards And Digital Payments

The move from plastic to pixels may be a slow one. Changing consumer behavior is no easy feat, as we’ve seen with...

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Mobile Commerce

Braintree, Eventbrite Make Concerts And Commerce Contextual

Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...

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Mobile Commerce

Visa Payments, (Truly) Mobile With Fitbit’s Ionic Smartwatch

Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...

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Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’

What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...

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Matchmakers

Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged

Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen...

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TSYS Tokenizes Corporate Cards For Mobile Payments

Card processor TSYS is looking to heighten the security of mobile corporate payments. The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is...

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Helping Specialty Stores Battle Grocery Goliath

Keep up or fall down. The April PYMNTS.com Developer Tracker, powered by Vantiv, features an interview with Burt Aycock, director of Design...

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Vantiv Inks Deal To Buy Paymetric

Vantiv, the provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it’s...

Fully Tokenized ACH Payment Integration Via Plaid And Dwolla Partnership

Transferring large sums of money typically always poses a risk. This rings true especially in today’s tech-savvy world, where computer hacking makes...

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Swedish Firm Microchips Employees For Payments, Security

With internal security threats leading to significant losses of data and money for the enterprise, businesses are tasked with not only safeguarding...

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Dyadic Lands $12M For Enterprise Security Tech

Dyadic Security has announced a $12 million fundraise to boost its enterprise security offerings. The U.S. startup said Tuesday (March 14) that...

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Citi Nixes Physical Tokens For Corporates

Citi is rolling out a new solution that enables corporates to ditch physical tokens when logging onto their business platforms. The bank...

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CardConnect’s Newest Encryption Tool Emerges From Beta

Payment processing firm CardConnect is targeting transaction security with its latest offering. The company said Tuesday (Jan. 17) that it is rolling out...

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Innovation

Visa + Honda Show In-Vehicle Payments

This year’s ongoing Consumer Electronics Showcase has been a non-stop stream of innovation, collaboration and new technologies. The latest in the smart...

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Ripple’s Network Used For Token Transfer

Smart Token Chain (STC), a company that explores the use of blockchain for smart contracts, tokenization and other transactions, has announced the...

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Safety and Security

eMerchantPay Unveils Tokenization Service

Online payment service provider eMerchantPay recently released details of its new One Time Token (OTT). The token will allow merchants not compliant...

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Visa Delivers Tokenization For The Long Tail

As commerce continues to get more and more connected, reaching even more devices, one of the biggest challenges at hand is ensuring...

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DBS Tokenizes The Smartphone For Corporate Payments

Singapore’s DBS Bank is doing away with physical tokens for some corporate payments. Reports on Wednesday (Oct. 12) said DBS is nixing...

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Samsung Goes After Biometrics For Enterprise Banking

Samsung is looking to introduce biometric authentication capabilities to mobile devices, a move that could have significant implications for the enterprise world. Reports...

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Sage Hack Should Be Wake-Up Call, Says SaaS Firm

Software company Hypersocket Software is warning businesses that they should pay attention to what the recent data breach at accounting company Sage...

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Ping Secures The Enterprise Cloud Migration

Ping Identity has just announced new enhancements to how enterprises can link into the cloud and mobile. An announcement on Monday (Aug....

Consumer Authentication

The Two Faces Of Digital Identity Authentication

There are two primary concerns in the payments industry’s quest to achieve effective security and fraud protection: businesses’ own data, and the...

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Top Bank Service Tightens Data Aggregation Security

Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is one of the banking industry’s most common APIs, allowing financial institutions to aggregate data and link that...

EMV

EMVCo Updates Payment Tokenization Specs

The global technical body that facilitates the worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions has upgraded its specs. In a press...

Corporates Inch Closer To Biometric Mobile Banking

Wells Fargo piqued the interest of its corporate clients late last year when it revealed it was working on biometric identification technology...

EMV

Merchant Link Reveals EMV Secret

While the importance of supporting EMV transactions may vary across industries, in certain sectors a new push toward EMV is underway to...

Internet of Things

Visa’s Payments Security Expands To IoT Companies

Visa is making a move to ensure Internet of Things offerings, ranging from wearables to cars, can embed secure Visa payments. The...

Visa Europe Expands Tokenization Service

Visa Europe said Tuesday (Feb. 16) that it has expanded its tokenization service to enable customers in the financial services industry to...

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Turkey Corporates Handed The eBanking Key: QR Codes

Corporations may want the same kind of fast, technologically advanced banking solutions as consumers do, but corporate banking also has more demanding...