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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides low-income families with benefits to supplement their food budget, suffered a nationwide outage on Sunday, according to news reports. The cause of the outage, which reportedly affected millions of recipients, is unknown. On Sunday several state agencies that help the U.S. Department …
August, 2022
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29 August
As Hacker Attacks Rise, States Start to Consider Banning Ransom Payments
Online attacks in which criminals seize control of victims’ data are rising, and government agencies are far from immune. That’s now leading states to consider laws prohibiting state agencies from paying ransoms to get the decryption key that would unlock what are often vital files. North Carolina in May and …
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29 August
RentSpree’s New Funding And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/29/22
A startup rent-payment processor called RentSpree closed on $17.3 million in Series B funding led by Green Visor Capital. The company projects it will process more than $160 million in rent payments over the next 12 months.Truist Financial Corp. launched Truist Invest and Truist Invest Pro, an automated investment advisory service and a …
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26 August
Jack Henry Will Launch a Real-Time Fraud Detection Platform in 2023
To make modern fraud detection technology more accessible to community banks, Jack Henry & Associates Inc. late Thursday announced plans to launch early next year Financial Crimes Defender, a cloud-native platform for detecting fraud and other suspicious account activity that can hurt consumer’s financial health, as well as financial crimes, such …
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26 August
COMMENTARY: Payments Security Requires Tokenization, Biometrics—And You
Digital payments are on the rise, and so is payment fraud. As of 2020, nearly 80% of Americans used at least one form of digital payment. Between 2020 and 2021, payment fraud attacks rose dramatically on digital wallets (200%), payment service providers (169%) and crypto exchanges (140%). To keep up …
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26 August
Affirm Posts Big Volume Gains And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/26/22
The buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. reported gross merchandise volume for its June quarter totaled $4.4 billion, up 77% year-over-year. For the year ended June 30, volume came to $15.5 billion, up 87%. Active merchants ballooned from 29,000 a year ago to 235,000, driven by Shop Pay Installments, an Affirm …
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25 August
Eye on ATMs: Bitcoin Depot Eyes Going Public and DataStream Gets Interac OK
The ATM world is about to get another publicly held company. Bitcoin Depot, a Bitcoin ATM operator with more than 7,000 machines in the United States and Canada, intends to go public in a merger with GSR II Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. Announced Thursday, the proposed deal …
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25 August
As E-Commerce Soars, Network Tokens Take off
Visa Inc. announced late Wednesday it has now issued more network tokens than there are physical Visa cards, eight years after the launch of the Visa Token Service. With a boom in e-commerce and other digital applications, the service has now issued more than 4 billion tokens, Visa said, almost …
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25 August
MoviePass Picks Usio’s Prepaid Service And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/25/22
MoviePass, a movie-theater subscription service, selected Usio Inc. as its exclusive prepaid card issuing platform. Usio will be the program manager and processor for the upcoming MoviePass debit card it plans to issue to all subscribers.PayPal Holdings Inc., in conjunction with National Philanthropic Trust and Vanguard Charitable, launched Grant Payments, a product …
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24 August
A Data Security Standard Attracts New Financial Services Supporters
The drive to create a data security standard designed for digital financial services applications that use cloud-computing, such as open banking, continues to gain momentum. Anecdotes AI Ltd, Codat Ltd., Skyflow Inc., and Very Good Security Inc. are the latest digital finance companies to join a group of financial technology …
