While many security companies can make a strong lock for your front door, DataVisor co-founder and CEO Yinglian Xie said focusing on every area of the house is a much more effective strategy.
The webinar with Visa Direct and Checkout.com discussed the rise of real time payments and how pay-to-card solves the pain points for many different verticals.
We had an update from the Federal Reserve on FedNow this week. There are now 400 banks participating in the instant payments network as either a sender or receiver.
They launched last July with 35 institutions and have been growing steadily since then. The last public statement that I have heard was when FedNow chief, Mark Gould, spoke at the American Fintech Council's Policy Summit in November when they had 200 banks on the platform.
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The importance of liveness detection was one positive development arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an essential feature of a biometric-based security strategy, iProov chief product and innovation officer Joe Palmer said.
The SEC has not had a great track record in court cases against crypto firms in the last few months. And another important case is playing out right now in a New York federal courtroom.
Back in June of last year the SEC sued Coinbase arguing that it was operating illegally and that it should register as an exchange and be overseen by the SEC.
Lenders’ delinquency strategy must be rooted in an “empathy-first” model to support customers in experiencing hardship. Customers in distress need support and resources, not shame.
As the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries mature, they must prepare for a downside to their success - patent trolls. As technology charts clear routes and more money is at stake, Dykema patent attorney Michael Word said cryptocurrency will be the next patent battlefield.
The long-awaited new overdrafts rule from the CFPB was unveiled today.
Since Rohit Chopra took over as head of the CFPB in 2021, they have made it clear that they were going after overdraft fees and this proposed rule is the culmination of those efforts.
There are new ways for Americans to build their emergency savings today from a new government program offered through retirement plans to new fintech offerings.
Today, a new global report was released from Nasdaq and Oliver Wyman on illicit money flows and the numbers are sobering.
The Global Financial Crime Report quantifies the total amount of illicit financial activity and the number is an eye-popping $3.1 trillion. Included in this number is bank fraud covering payments, checks and credit card fraud which is estimated at around $450 billion.