PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

An FBI inquiry into the allegations is centered upon claims of fraudulent spend within SEPTA and misuse of the authority’s procurement cards — a common source of internal fraud for both private and public entities. However, the case is also a unique instance of fraud stemming from both within an organization and from a third party.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These companies are now using workforce spend management tools like corporate cards and reconciliation services to ensure both deadlines and client expectations are met. Sparkhouse uses a combination of corporate spending cards and reconciliation services from QuickBooks for production-related transactions, Tayenaka explained.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

And last week in payments and commerce was particularly drizzly — between real money launderers making use of fake video game funds, regulatory fines and earning fumbles, all kinds of players were reaching for their umbrellas over the course of the week. And using Fortnite in-game funds to launder real stolen money is certainly creative.

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CFO Simplified

DECEMBER 26, 2021

We know, however, that hiring a full-time CFO can come with a hefty price tag. A part-time outsourced CFO provides the strategy of a C-Suite member without the price tag. . They may use software to help keep accurate records of transactions. The government has many different programs that provide tax credits to businesses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Synthetic fraud is different from what might be thought of as “traditional” identity fraud, where real identities and data are hijacked and used to make unauthorized transactions. The price tag is enormous, as estimated by SentiLink and some of its partners, reaching as much as $2 billion annually — and that’s just for banks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. For LendingClub, an online lender, the bid to buy Radius Bank means that (assuming the regulatory hurdles are satisfied), within 12 to 15 months, the company will move into a branchless banking model that offers services and products beyond credit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

With the new functionality, users can register a credit or debit card and make payments within the social media platform after setting up a security PIN, TechCrunch reported. The feature is useful because Instagram does not allow users to put links in photo captions. Prior to introducing the feature in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Cybercriminals are also seeing opportunities to use these offerings to their advantage, however, now employing them to exploit vulnerabilities, siphon funds and access valuable data. . Fraud takes many shapes and forms and comes with a hefty price tag.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They can then choose the regions or neighborhoods in which they are comfortable staying, and pay for their room with a credit or debit card via Stripe. They can indicate which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, similar to a dating website.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

Because of its exclusive rights, Visa is the only card accepted at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues and for any official Rio 2016 related transactions. Opt-in for services, such as Mobile Location Confirmation via the issuer’s banking app or Visa’s Travel Authorization Tag.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Rodriguez said that understanding financial health is an important part of developing a financing strategy, and knowing how an entrepreneur can grow their business outside of using personal credit lines or credit cards. The firm secured $1.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Garner has long evangelized the use of emerging digital payment technologies to power consumer services. With the 2008 rebranding came a shift in focus to mobile, smart card and Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies. CEO Neil Garner and his team at Thyngs want to change that. Thyngs announced news on Monday, Aug.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Migrating from a manual T&E program — traditionally involving employees using their personal cards, filing an expense report, submitting receipts and requiring administrators to conduct a lot of number-crunching — to a process that promotes control and transparency can deliver immense value to companies of all sizes and types. .”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple flipped a long-held policy in opening up the iPhone’s NFC chip to developers, Chase decided that it can afford to make its premier rewards card a bit less rewarding and Uber took a pass on an investment from Warren Buffet. In addition, Chase is ending the ability to earn extra rewards on the $300 annual travel credit.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

A not-so-light example, he said, is that the introduction of these services attracts fraudsters by creating a desirable target — customer mobile app accounts with payment credentials and gift cards nicely loaded into them. But not at the fraudster, at least not directly. Step 2: Build Everything With A Fraud Prevention Mindset .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Consumers are getting used to their new commerce behaviors, he said, and when the crisis is over, they might not be so quick to give all of them up. Some of the methods will be different than what we are used to seeing, and we will not even know what those methods are until 60 to 90 days after they’ve started to appear.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

“But customers wanted that license plate or tag immediately, so they came into the office. That takes up space and time, so we wanted to use a kiosk as a way to save [both].”. The freestanding, self-service terminals enable residents to use a touchscreen to perform basic DMV functions. Registration and renewal.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Account takeover fraud , card-not-present (CNP) fraud, tax fraud, selling stolen financials, selling fake bank accounts, the Dark Web: If security experts are fighting it today, chances are that Brett Johnson was there when it started. He would buy a system at Best Buy for $99, reprogram the card inside and resell it for $500.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

We’re building deeper relationships with our customers across our ecosystem and are looking forward to delivering new tools like Walmart Pay that allow them to use the Walmart app as their remote control for a faster, more convenient shopping experience.”. Having several cards for different personal/business purposes is a big enough hassle.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

And for that reason, credit bureaus, financial institutions and even eCommerce sites find they must look elsewhere for verifiable data or risk overlooking good but “thin-filed” consumers, including millennials. This leaves many without the “creditworthy” data that makes “thin files” thick. Is the phone number the future SSN?” Ayers asked.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2017

If two guys named Steve (Jobs and Wozniak) hadn’t become friends in the 1970s, you might still be using a flip phone today. This year, the company is making it easy to send a card to the people who mean the most to you. Try the “We have great taste in friends and expensive taste in restaurants” card. Everyone needs a friend.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Founder Tracy DiNunzio understood this problem acutely when she was selling used wedding dresses from her bedroom, but it’s still a problem facing a select slice of hotly competed-for consumers. She’s often in credit card debt. Worse, you appear to have no imagination, which is the opposite of style. She’s got perfection issues.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

billion price tag, led U.K A very important difference is it doesn’t come with a PIN pad and in Europe we always use a PIN pad.”. The ubiquity of PIN-less chip cards in the U.S. can be estimated by the fact that over 60 percent of Visa’s chip-based credit and debit cards didn’t require PIN or signature until last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

Like the dog in the cartoon, fraudsters use the same technologies as regular people when moving about in the virtual sphere. Credit bureau-based solutions offer easy API implementation and a fast, non-intrusive experience, but they do not actually verify the identity of the person who is doing the transaction.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Growth was stymied because customers were required to preload credit cards into their apps to use the program. All they had to do to earn points was scan a QR code on the Dunkin’ app or swipe a new physical membership card. Also on deck for the future is better use of artificial intelligence (AI).

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

During the I/O developer conference, Google announced that it’s opening the door for in-app payments with the Google Payment API, which will allow merchants and developers to accept credit and debit payments made from a card that is saved in a customer’s Google Account. One thing the Show can’t do is capture still photos.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The recommerce market, which is focused on returned and (gently) used items, has been big business, where in China those sales are worth $60 billion. Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. To their credit, Juicero did try to recover. Can you spell coopetition?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And by the way, that’s tough when you’re a West Coast gal, used to sunshine and nice weather, right? It’s kind of moved to Lululemon pants and button-down shirts is about as dressed up as people used to wear. I used to laugh. I also ran our credit card business at the time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And cutting back is one of many measures airlines are using to attract customers and stay alive until a vaccine emerges in wide usage to bring the pandemic period to an end. Using the digital identity system, consumers can print their own bag tags and use a scanner and match tablet within the airport to move touchless through the system.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The more the user gets to use the app, the more it gets to know them using machine learning and AI [artificial intelligence] ,” SIX Travel Founder and CEO Khalid Meniri told PYMNTS.com in an interview. In addition, the company uses Core ML to translate the images that users interact with and extracts tags from those images.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Other firms have made similar moves, with crypto lending firm BlockFi partnering with Visa to roll out a new bitcoin-backed credit card in 2021, CoinDesk reported. SUERC, which is tasked with finding ways to authenticate whiskeys, will now use Everledger's anti-tamper bottle tags and blockchain platform to track the whiskies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As more financial service providers explore how to capitalize on corporates’ growing adoption of commercial cards, firms are looking at the card as a way to round out their products and services with a more holistic offering. Below, PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in commercial card innovation.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Sir, your business card, can I have one?” And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. I thought he was useful and he had a place in my world. And so the energy’s used for all the wrong stuff. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Plus, research places a price tag on B2B sales efforts, the alternative lending industry and small business expense practices. Expanded globally, the price tag of wasted money hits $1.4 Credit conditions and reports of higher sales both declined slightly, though capital spending saw a minor increase.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

In almost four years, only Walmart Pay has managed to cross the 5 percent regular usage mark – and Walmart made it just barely over that line, with 6 percent of customers having used it on their last eligible transaction, according to the latest edition of the PYMNTS/InfoScout mobile wallet adoption figures.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

To put that into perspective, there were approximately 170 million unique documents signed using DocuSign last year, with nearly 1,350,000 unique signers using the platform each and every day. It’s very rare that someone is going to do that on their credit card,” Levin explained. moments,” he added.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Neither group makes much use of mainstream credit products – On the Edge consumers mostly by choice, Shut Outs because their previously spotty financial history tends to lock them out of offers. They rarely use credit cards, and only about 5 percent report having student loans. Making Better Use of a Second Chance.

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