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The Uncharted Territory Of M&A Cyber Risks

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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continues to accelerate as 2019 progresses, both in terms of volume and value of M&A deals. Deloitte research found 79 percent of organizations expect merger activity to grow in the coming year, up from 70 percent that said the same for 2018.

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When Vendors Open Doors To Cyberattackers

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Last year saw record levels of venture capital pumped into cybersecurity startups, and researchers at Gartner expect companies to increase cybersecurity spend by 9 percent between 2018 and 2019, reaching $124 billion. The report follows research published last November from Opus, which surveyed security executives in the U.S.

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JPMC Opens eWallet So Tech Firms Can Offer Virtual Bank Accounts

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Tech companies benefit by avoiding payment processing fees to third-party vendors whenever customers use their virtual accounts for payments, the report said, while JPMorgan benefits by being the sole payment processing and cash movement firm for tech companies that offer the eWallet to their customers. “A

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JPMorgan Develops Wallet To Help Tech Firms Offer Virtual Bank Accounts

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Tech companies benefit by avoiding payment processing fees to third-party vendors whenever customers use their virtual accounts for payments, the report said, while JPMorgan benefits by being the sole payment processing and cash movement firm for tech companies that offer the eWallet to their customers. “A

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How To Fight Fraud Without Cheapening Consumer Experiences

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At stake could be nothing less than merchant reputation and revenue as eCommerce continues to take up a bigger part of retail. They buy modules and code from third-party vendors and the larger supply chain and don’t write the code themselves. The company pointed to an incident in 2018 as one example of this trend.

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How False-Positives Complicate The B2B Payments Fraud Fight

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According to the latest Payments 2022 Playbook: Building A High-Performing Payments Team For Fraud Detection , a PYMNTS study in collaboration with Stripe, digital platforms continue to express discontent with their current fraud strategies, and false positives are compromising their brands, customer relationships, and bottom lines.

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Data Dive: Expanding Efforts — Good, Bad And Unpredictable

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eMarketer also projects that P2P payment use will increase 30 percent in 2018, encompassing about 40 percent of U.S. Overall, eMarketer forecasts that the transaction volume of P2P payments will increase by 37 percent in 2018 to reach just over $167 billion this year. . — more than Venmo’s 22.9 million users. million people.

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