PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
Cybersecurity is one of the main tasks in the world of digital commerce and payments, and it’s a task that is getting more attention from consumers, companies, regulators and others. But there’s a big problem in this realm — a shortage of cybersecurity experts, the people with the training and expertise to defend retail and payments from increasingly sophisticated online criminals.
Katz,Sapper&Miller
JUNE 13, 2019
Hello, and welcome to KSM’s annual Legislative Update. You’ll find detail after detail about what legislative actions the 2019 Indiana General Assembly took in the world of tax and economic development.
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JUNE 10, 2019
Uber is expanding its services and moving toward providing financial products, according to a report by CNBC. The company has reportedly been hiring numerous product managers and engineers. Its new FinTech team could ultimately have more than 100 workers. Uber is taking advantage of New York’s talent pool in the financial department, which has more depth in the San Francisco sector.
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JUNE 11, 2019
Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank won’t be using Ripple’s XRP technology despite earlier announcements of such plans. According to reports in BlockTribune on Monday (June 10), Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) retracted a previous statement that it was planning to integrate use of Ripple’s XRP token to power cross-border B2B payments.
Speaker: Aaron Berson
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JUNE 14, 2019
The traditional method of finding a lost pet worked well enough. A distraught owner might tape or staple some homemade signs around the neighborhood, knock on doors, put out some favorite treats on the porch or lawn, and perhaps even pray and check the bank account in hopes of offering a monetary reward. Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only hel
PYMNTS
JUNE 12, 2019
The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. Science and invention are collective pursuits. Imagination and epiphany still have their roles, but it’s less about “eureka moments” than the steady, data-focused march of daily progress.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 10, 2019
Amazon is linking with Synchrony Financial to offer a new credit card for Amazon Prime members who have bad credit. As reported Monday (June 10), the card, known as “Amazon Credit Builder” will let users build up their credit profiles through the use of a secured card, and the firms also will offer budgeting tools. Upon establishing credit, those users can obtain other Amazon cards, which may be unsecured cards.
PYMNTS
JUNE 9, 2019
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde issued a warning over the weekend about the impact artificial intelligence may have on the financial system across the globe. Reuters reported Lagarde said that technology companies’ use of big data and AI i ncreases big tech companies’ dominance in the mobile payments market, which could result in policymakers around the world rethinking how they regulate the banking system and how they ensure financial settlements are made safely
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
Visa and Mastercard each made headlines in the payments infrastructure and cross-border realms, eyeing digital payments and B2B payments. As reported earlier in the week, Visa launched B2B Connect , a network focused on enabling financial institutions (FIs) to help their clients make B2B payments across borders. As reported, the launch covers 30 markets globally.
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. It was a launch supported by background efforts in developing biometric cards that have been three or four years in the making, as Mastercard’s Executive Vice President of Identity Solutions Bob Reany told Karen Webster in a recent conversation
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JUNE 13, 2019
For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have said, promotes visibility and makes it more difficult for data to be manipulated. The security benefits of decentralization make blockchain an attractive fit in corporate finance.
PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2019
Electronic invoicing and settlement solutions provider PayCargo, which targets the shipping and logistics industry, will integrate payments processing into Unisys Corporation’s Digistics solution, the companies announced this week. A press release issued Monday (June 10) said PayCargo’s payment processing services will be added into air cargo management platform Digistics, enabling corporate users to process payments in real time, as well as to create and schedule payments.
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
Retail is getting more visual, and that stands to be the case for locally-focused merchants as they compete for attention and consumer dollars with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Indeed, augmented reality is among the tools that local retailers look ready to adopt for further use. According to one recent report , augmented reality, or AR, “has lots of implications for local commerce.
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JUNE 9, 2019
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have requested that the Financial Stability Board ( FSB ), as well as global standard-setting organizations, work together to monitor risks around crypto assets. “While crypto assets do not pose a threat to global financial stability at this point, we remain vigilant to risks, including those related to consumer and investor protection, anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT),” said the joint statement, accordin
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JUNE 10, 2019
Open Banking is brand new, except it isn’t — at least, to some observers. More than a year into Open Banking’s debut in Europe, Token.io Limited CEO Steve Kirsch told Karen Webster that there’s a precedent in managing transactions effectively and safely, and in giving consumers access and control over their data as financial service firms seek to serve up innovative banking products.
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JUNE 10, 2019
Airbnb is reportedly complying with a New York City subpoena that wants information about some of its listings, according to reports. The online housing marketplace is giving anonymized data on hosts and listings from the start of last year through Feb. 18 of this year. The data has listings that lasted less than 30 days that offered customers the whole home, multiple rooms or shared rooms in the same residence.
PYMNTS
JUNE 12, 2019
In the era of streaming entertainment and online news, the number of companies providing digital platforms for content is on the rise. And consumers now have a plethora of choices at their disposal, which creates competition in a space where platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify are looking to attract the same users. But subscriptions also lets merchants to engage with their customers better regardless of the services or products they buy, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracke
PYMNTS
JUNE 10, 2019
A bit more than a month ago, Visa debuted Visa Next, a platform that offers a growing menu of beta application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be (and are being) used by issuers and issuer processors to build and test new digital-first products. The platform also serves as a “new destination” for viewing new and upcoming solutions in Visa’s pipeline.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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JUNE 14, 2019
To steal a line from the Marvel Universe, “with great power comes great responsibility.”. To steal another line from the Hippocratic oath, penned centuries ago, “first, do no harm.”. Those two maxims extend into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) — to the models built on machine learning and AI, and to the humans who come up with the models in the first place.
PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2019
Netherlands-based Factris is launching an enhanced version of its Finance Automation for Business platform, the company announced Monday (June 10). The Finance Automation for Business, or FAB, platform, aims to connect Europe-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with financial management solutions including invoice financing and factoring tools.
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JUNE 11, 2019
Apple Pay has added support for users in the Netherlands and also expanded services for Revolut users , according to reports. The service launched in Luxembourg and Hungary last month, and on Tuesday (June 11) in the Netherlands. All Apple Watch, iPad, Mac and iPhone users can use the service wherever it’s accepted. Apple Pay is supported in the Netherlands by ING, but it’s not clear whether any other banks in the country will support it.
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
Three percent of, well, anything is not a lot. It seems an especially low number when considering this stat: Only 3 percent of companies meet customer demands for instant business-to-consumer (B2C) payments. How about a bigger number, though equally disquieting? As much as 80 percent of firms still rely on paper checks when it comes to making business-to-business (B2B) payments.
Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA
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JUNE 12, 2019
Bento for Business, a B2B payments company, has introduced a new product called Bento Pay, a digital payments solution that “eliminates the need to write checks and gives businesses the ease and security of paying any supplier confidentially, regardless of their digital payment preferences,” according to a release by the company. Speaking at the CB Insights Future of FinTech conference, Bento for Business Co-founder and CEO Farhan Ahmad said the company’s direct-to-payee solution can handle frag
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
The new 5G mobile network technology is getting its first deployments, but that’s not the only communications game in town. A technology that tracks lost scooters people rent could play a role in the coming years in digital retail and payments, at least going by recent reports. The innovation — and potential disruption — stems from a company called Helium , which describes itself as a peer-to-peer wireless network.
PYMNTS
JUNE 12, 2019
Security researchers have revealed another cryptocurrency mining malware that has already installed itself on Oracle servers. According to The Next Web , the malware attacks Oracle WebLogic Servers to install a Monero cryptocurrency mining bot. It is able to stay hidden because the malicious code is obscured in certificate files, and, therefore, can go undetected by firewalls and antivirus software.
PYMNTS
JUNE 8, 2019
For the last several weeks, and for a few more to come, students at the nation’s high schools and colleges are donning their gowns and mortarboards and collecting their diplomas. For many of those getting university degrees, the day comes with mixed emotions, because the real world has finally come to call. Finding a job, being solely responsible for one’s own household provisions and making student loan payments are about to become first-time features of many lives.
Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant
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PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2019
Brex, the credit card startup, announced Tuesday (June 11) it raised $100 million in venture funding, giving the company a valuation of $2.6 billion. In a press release , Brex said the funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, with participation from all existing major investors including Y Combinator Continuity, Ribbit Capital, DST Global, Greenoaks Capital, and IVP.
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JUNE 13, 2019
Facebook has been removed from a list of companies that are indexed by S&P Dow Jones Indices as socially responsible, according to a report by CNBC. The decision for the ousting, which was made on Thursday (June 13), stems from Facebook’s continued privacy issues. The list in question is called the S&P 500 ESG Index, which keeps track of companies that practice responsible social, governance and environmental practices.
PYMNTS
JUNE 14, 2019
Smart technology is unlocking supply chain efficiencies, providing emergency alerts and much more. But despite intelligence of things (IoT) solutions being put to use in many cases, the field continues to be hampered by security issues. Researchers have continued to report simple issues that trip up the tech — including failures by device manufacturers to require users to set up a PIN or passcode or failures by users to securely implement the technology.
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2019
As Walmart works to integrate Jet.com into its business, the retailer is eliminating Simon Belsham’s role as Jet president. As a result, Jet team leaders will now report to Kieran Shanahan, who’s been overseeing Walmart’s food, consumables and health-and-wellness divisions online. “Bringing together talent from Jet and Walmart into joint teams has created more opportunity for our business and our people,” said Marc Lore, co-founder of Jet.com who now serves as president and CEO of Wa
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