Thursday , December 12, 2024

Digital Currency

PayPal’s Passkey Makes Android Debut And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/24/23

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. announced its users can deploy the service at VersaClimber, a vendor of exercise machines. Cybersecurity firm McAfee Corp. will offer savings on online protection via a new agreement with Mastercard Inc.’s Easy Savings program, a service through which business cardholders receive rebates on common business expenses. Strike, …

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The FTC’s ‘Click to Cancel’ Button And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/23/23

The Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule that would require sellers to offer a “click to cancel” button that customers could use to more easily stop subscriptions and recurring payments. A global survey on cross-border payments found 29% of mid-size and large U.S. businesses cite high transaction cost as a challenge, …

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Tassat Preps for FedNow And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/22/23

Tassat Group Inc., a provider of real-time business-to-business payments based on blockchain technology, said its client-facing application programming interface enables an “on-ramp” to FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payments service, which is expected to begin commercial service in July. Liquidity Financial launched CauseCard, a Visa-branded debit card with a connected app …

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Criminals Favor Cryptocurrency And Digital Skimming for Fraud Tactics, a Visa Report Says

Cybercriminals showed no signs of slowing down in 2022 as they employed a variety of schemes to defraud consumers, acquirers, card issuers, and merchants, according to Visa Inc.’s Spring 2023 Biannual Threats Report. Cryptocurrency was a prime target for cybercriminals. More than $3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen through November …

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Bitcoin Depot Adds More ATMs And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/21/23

Lux Vending LLC, which does business as Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot Inc., has agreed to deploy its machines in 125 locations owned by convenience-store chain GetGo Cafe + Market. Overall, Bitcoin Depot operates approximately 7,000 machines in 48 states and 10 Canadian provinces. Digital-currency provider Circle Internet Financial LLC said it has …

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How ‘Fraud-as-a-Service’ Is Leading to the ‘Democratization’ of Online Crime

E-commerce wasn’t the only market that ballooned after the pandemic set in. Fraud took off, too, and attracted novice practitioners in the bargain. Of more than 1,000 consumers surveyed by Sift Science Inc. for a report it released Thursday, some 16% admitted they had committed payment fraud, or knew someone …

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U.S. One of Two Markets with No Contactless Cap and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/17/23

Merchant Machine, a United Kingdom-based payments information and comparison site, issued a report on contactless transaction limits around the world. Only two nations, Ecuador and the United States have no limit, though banks or merchants may set their own limits, Merchant Machine said. Payments-technology provider BHMI announced an entity-relationship component for its …

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‘Pig Butchering’ Is the Latest Scam to Defraud Consumers of Cryptocurrency

As if cryptocurrency didn’t have enough problems with the financial failure of the major FTX exchange, plummeting values, and, most recently, links to two of the biggest bank failures in U.S. history, now criminals are running scams built around crypto trading to defraud consumers. The scams, known as “pig butchering,” …

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Big Bank Failures Will Spur Big Consequences for Crypto, Experts Argue

The stunning bank failures of recent days, all of them involving institutions with wide exposure to cryptocurrency, are likely to have a deep impact not only on blockchain products but on payments more broadly, experts say. A stronger case for a digital dollar, stricter regulation of digital currencies in general, …

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Will a Trio of Major Bank Failures Dampen Interest in Blockchain Technology?

Signature Bank on Sunday became the latest domino to fall in a reckoning that is expected to have widespread ripple effects not only for banking but for the burgeoning cryptocurrency industry. The New York City-based bank, closed by state regulators, is said to be the third-largest bank failure in U.S. …

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