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12.22.16: Your morning briefing

Payments Source

Today: Wearables underperform; Varo, Kasisto partner on bot debit card; EU warns on mobile security; Boloro debuts faster authentication. Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web.

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Facebook Expands Payments Options And Its Obsession With Snapchat

PYMNTS

The app automatically plugs in credit or debit card information from the user’s Messenger profile. Facebook said that 34,000 developers have joined the Messenger platform and have built 30,000 bots, a huge increase given that only 11,000 bots were noted on Messenger in July. 15 with the launch of Messenger Platform v1.2.

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Meet the 18 Finalists for the 2024 Global Fintech Hackcelerator

Fintech News

Additionally, SmashFi provides an automated trading bot to help increase the user’s Bitcoin holdings. Dobin also provides real-time insights into spending, personalised recommendations on credit cards, and curated discounts to help users save and earn more rewards.

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European Card Fraud in 2021: Winners, Losers and Scams

FICO

or more details on individual countries credit card fraud and losses including multi-year trends, explore the European Fraud Map. Read Fraud Trends for 2022: Top 5 Includes ‘Scamdemic’ and Bad Bots. Fraud Trends for 2022: Top 5 Includes "Scamdemic" and Bad Bots. How FICO’s Fraud Solutions Reduce Losses. See all Posts.

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Fintech Trending: Bots Break Out, AI Gets Personal, and Blockchain Buys the Farm

Fintech Labs Insights

Is anybody, any bank, any business in the real world actually putting this great looking, great sounding technology – these bots, this blockchain – to the test? “Bots Are Everywhere, But Are They Ready for Banking?” Another just-launched startup doing something similar is New York-based Debitize.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

PYMNTS

And the devils we know – garden-variety credit and bank fraud , phishing and bot attacks, online identity scams and the rest – may feel more comfortable than the devils we don’t know. Risk vs. Reward. Instant money is shaking things up, which is to be expected. If offered the choice.”

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The ABCs Of QSR Mobility 

PYMNTS

“When you’re looking at account takeovers, for example, it’s predominantly automated bot attacks that have an identifiable signature,” Garner explained. “As As a retailer, you can say there’s no practical purpose why a customer would be trying to log on to your network using a bot.

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