PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If Facebook does not comply, the Russian government will block the social media website next year. In 2018, everything will be as it should be for sure. Russians have used VPNs to access content the government blocks, such as LinkedIn.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

Microsoft said in 2018 that it had discouraged a commercial push to develop a standard for facial recognition technology. “In San Francisco is one of seven municipalities that have blocked the government’s use of the technology, citing privacy and bias.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Ten or more state attorneys general are reportedly gearing up to jointly file suit to block the $26 billion merger of Sprint and T-Mobile. In late April of 2018, T-Mobile and Sprint announced the $26 billion merger. Reuters , citing thee sources familiar with the matter, reported the attorney general of New York is leading the lawsuit.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Sizable blocks of absentee or mail-in ballots remain to be counted in such key states as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona as of Wednesday afternoon, with the count in the Keystone State not expected to be done until Friday, if not later.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2018, millions of Chinese travelers were banned from buying airline tickets because of outstanding social credit offenses. People were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times from purchasing train tickets, and 128 people were blocked from leaving the country because of unpaid taxes. Consumers were also barred 5.5

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Blocks Database Governance Government 71

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In other news, The Giving Block is aiming to raise at least $1 million in donations through its Bitcoin Tuesday event, according to Cointelegraph. All our charities accept more than just Bitcoin,” said The Giving Block, per Cointelegraph. The Centre Consortium was co-founded in 2018 by Circle and Coinbase and governs the USDC.

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Bitcoin Blocks Blockchain Push-to-Card 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The cybersecurity company analyzes data from its Global Intelligence Network, which records events from 123 million attack sensors worldwide, and blocks 142 million threats daily and monitors threat activities in more than 157 countries. Symantec said it blocked more than 3.7 million each month.

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Scams Identity Theft Compromise Ransomware 69

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

“The malware uses the bitcoin blockchain to update, meaning it can continue running even if a device’s antivirus software blocks its connection to servers run by the hackers,” reported Forbes. Security intelligence blog Trend Micro disclosed the hijacking and the malware, which is known as Glupteba and was first discovered at the end of 2018.

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Blockchain Blocks Bitcoin Privacy 73

Fintech News

JUNE 3, 2024

In 2022, malware incidents rose for the first time since 2018, reaching 5.5 Ransomware is a type of malicious software attack designed to block access to a computer system until a ransom is paid. billion attacks and growing 2% year-on-year (YoY), according to the 2023 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2018 — but because of the cost of electricity, miners are failing to make a profit. According to the report, as it stands, bitcoin miners make 54,000 BTC each month for processing the mining blocks. According to the report, as it stands, bitcoin miners make 54,000 BTC each month for processing the mining blocks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The company was founded in 2018 by Ken Chong and Matt Sawchuk , both of whom used to work for Uber. All of this signals the immense popularity of the cloud-based kitchen concept, which data from market research firm Reports and Data said will grow as a global market from $650 million in 2018 to $2.6 billion by 2026, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Now the Giving Block , a for-profit firm founded in 2018, is in charge of this year’s crypto Giving Tuesday with #BitcoinTuesday. The event on Dec. 3 is a take on GivingTuesday, which allows people to make donations to charities. The event launched in 2012 and raised around $400 million in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2019

The proposed merger has had a long and tumultuous history since an agreement was first reached in April 2018. . The DoJ had threatened to file a lawsuit to block the merger if Sprint and T-Mobile didn’t reach a settlement by the week of July 23. The Federal Communications Commission originally signed off on the merger while the U.S.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The report identified six key obstacles currently blocking the way, including the need to further develop open banking infrastructure, improving and harmonising the customer experience, and a full rollout of VRPs. The report highlighted VRPs as the ‘hero functionality’ that will enable open banking to go mainstream.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The main asset on the block is GSK’s 72.5 Horlicks” business to Aimia Foods earlier in 2018. Payments and commerce competition in India is quickly heating up in 2018, with Google the latest company to make a major play there as it eyes further expansion in Asia. GSK sold its “much smaller U.K.

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Blocks Continuity Consumer Product 59

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) rose 347 percent from 2018 to 2019 — a problem that will only worsen if financial institutions (FIs) are not vigilant. Fraudsters seek to fly under the radar by stealing information through one channel that they then use to execute ATOs or other attacks.

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Scams Account Takeovers Online and Mobile Banking Credit Union 98

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Norwegian Air, one of the largest airlines in Europe, will allow the service because of a partnership with Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) CEO Stig Kjos-Mathisen, whose technology will provide a payment infrastructure that enables Norwegian Air customers to purchase tickets with cryptocurrency.

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Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Digital Currency Blocks 73

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Will Black Friday 2020 mark the beginning of a new, digital-first holiday shopping tradition, or will consumers return to their block-long queues after the pandemic has subsided and they are once again free to shop in stores? percent decrease in the share who did so in 2018. Our research shows that 74.1 It is also 27.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

It is reported to result from a 3(R)-2(D) decision by commissioners after determining that the user data issues related to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica breach violated the 2012 consent decree Facebook entered into with the FTC. In fact, according to eMarketer , only 25 percent of all internet users block ads. Trust, but Adjust.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

PSCU has prevented over $277 million in would-be fraud last year, 30 percent more than in 2018. The credit union service organization (CUSO) said it blocked cybercriminals at several channel intersections, including at the point of sale, at its contact centers and other avenues.

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Credit Union Credit Union Service Organization Blocks Bots 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Police in Finland said as many as 40,000 patients of the clinic could have had their data exposed in breaches in 2018 and 2019. And Bud Walker, chief strategy officer at data verification firm Melissa Data, said in a recent PYMNTS podcast that verification is “a basic building block of trust.”

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Breach Laws Identity Theft Verification 69

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses are generally more familiar with the ins and outs of their B2B transaction processes and can therefore comprehend and anticipate some of the stumbling blocks that keep their payments in limbo for weeks at a time.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 4, 2024

million between 2018 and 2022, and consists of a team of 35 people spread across Vienna, Munich and Berlin. In Asia, Singapore-based Foresight Ventures completed in November the acquisition of the majority of the shares of crypto news and data provider The Block. The company makes most of its revenue from ads and subscription.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We took immediate steps to block further access by the unauthorized third party and to enhance security across our platform. million consumers, Dashers (delivery workers), and merchants who joined the platform on or before April 5, 2018. We are reaching out directly to affected users.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The firms are operating using distributed ledger technology (DLT), which has been growing — in 2018, the number of firms using it sat at only 27 percent by comparison. government, The Block reported. In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported.

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IRS Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Blockchain Cryptocurrency 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The Thursday announcement from the FTC stated that the company’s computerized monitoring system — aimed at blocking known fraudsters from using its service — “malfunctioned for an 18-month period in 2015 and 2016. The FTC said that between Jan.

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FTC Settlement Federal Trade Commission Fraud Prevention 64

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

One study showed that 44 percent of individuals in 2018 began their house-hunting journeys by looking up potential properties online before contacting real estate professionals. The COVID-19 Virtual Accelerant. The real estate industry has been steadily shifting to digital for several years.

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Money Laundering Process Security Blocks 79

PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

As of March 16, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reports approximately 72.7 The tax preparation industry is catching on, however, and several players — like H&R Block — are now offering instant payment solutions. The average federal tax refund is $2,960 — $3,091 for direct deposit filers — as of March 2018.

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Payments Tools Tax Refunds Direct Deposit Blocks 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Users have the ability to block and unblock the cards immediately with a single touch. The decision is a landmark for WhatsApp, which first launched an experimental run of its new Indian payment service in 2018. The Paytm SBI Card and Paytm SBI Card SELECT both have smart one-tap app functionalities, rewards and other user benefits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

PSCU said it prevented over $277 million in would-be fraud last year, 30 percent more than in 2018. The service organization said it blocked cybercriminals at the point of sale, for example, and regularly invests in cyberattack prevention tools. The pandemic has put credit unions on the hot seat in terms of fraud risk.

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Credit Union Credit Union Service Organization Fraud Prevention Risk Mitigation 60

FICO

AUGUST 2, 2018

Using a neural network model to detect fraud has tremendous benefit in keeping fraud under control and the cost of a false positive (blocked legitimate transaction) is low. But as we start looking to machine learning to drive our cars, perform surgery, or monitor our movements, how will we become comfortable with higher-cost mistakes?

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The Fintech Times

MAY 30, 2024

Bahrain FinTech Bay, founded in 2018, operates closely with the Bahraini government, the Economic Development Board, and the Central Bank of Bahrain to foster the country’s fintech ecosystem. With crypto regulations established since 2018, Bahrain FinTech Bay hosts prominent crypto firms like Binance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

billion) in Q4 of 2018, which is up 8.8 Ambani also said he supported India’s move toward data localization, which blocks foreign companies and financial organizations from processing Indians’ data offshore. The majority of Reliance’s sales comes from oil products. Reliance reported a profit of Rs 103 billion ($1.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In fact, the number of Same Day ACH transactions rose by 192 percent in Q3 2018 over the same period from the previous year. The solution is intended to bring real-time payments within the reach of FIs that might otherwise be blocked out by costs or the burden of infrastructure requirements. and the European Union (EU).

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The product, which includes a linked debit card with Apple Pay , features essential self-service options, including card life cycle management such as freeze, block, reorder, setting/viewing PINs, and viewing card details for online purchases.

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Product Debit Card Blocks Innovation 59

FICO

JUNE 10, 2019

One study says the number of robocalls to US phone numbers soared from 18 billion in 2017 to more than 26 billion in 2018. But the new FCC ruling, which authorizes phone companies to implement call-blocking services as a default, does not stipulate fraudulent or illegal calls. Default blocking with all-or-nothing opt-out for consumers.

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Rules Blocks CFPB Authorization 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In deploying the FICO Falcon Platform, enhanced fraud detection and blocking capabilities are made available to issuers, PULSE said. The result is that PULSE is able to offer customized fraud blocking rules for its issuers, and the rules can be implemented with greater speed than had been seen before. “In percent in 2017 to 6.7

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Fraud Detection Debit Network Issuers Risk Mitigation 40