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Telegram to Benefit From Altery Embedded Finance Solution With New Partnership

The Fintech Times

Telegram is a free, multi-platform messenger that houses apps and bots for various functions including games and entertainment, and financial management. The new Altery embedded finance service, the Altery Payment Bot, will provide Telegram users with a seamless payment option they can use on daily digital interactions.

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Google Backs Away From Chatbots

PYMNTS

Starting with Facebook’s big announcement of its chatbot push at F8 in 2016, all of those forecasts for everything chatbots were going to do starting rolling in. Head of Messenger David Marcus admitted that early phase of botdom has been a bit primitive — and that it has been too easy to build and release a bad bot.

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Fighting Fraud In The New Normal

PYMNTS

The advent of COVID-19 , Fiserv ’s Vice President of Risk Analytics and Strategy Kannan Srinivasan and Vice President of Fraud and Financial Crimes Management Gasan Awad told PYMNTS, didn’t introduce these things – but it did create a perfect storm of factors that is now pushing these fraudsters into overdrive. Powering A Fast Pivot.

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Money20/20 Asia 2024: Event Recap and Main Announcements

Fintech News

Other sessions also delved into key trends and issues shaping the global payment landscape, including open banking in Europe, the QR code revolution in Asia as well as the US’s card dominance. Day 1 of Money20/20 Asia 2024 showcased a series of insightful sessions and discussions.

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The Chatbots Are Coming! The Chatbots Are Coming!

PYMNTS

Chatbots launched in 2016 with a great deal of fanfare — if we had a dollar for every time someone forecasted that the bot was about to make the app obsolete, we wouldn’t be able to buy Facebook, but we probably could put in a pretty competitive offer for OnDeck. The bot experience left many users, like Karen Webster, a bit cold.

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Shutting The Front Door On Online Fraudsters

PYMNTS

Brands are typically aware of the potential for fraud to show up at the end of an anonymous transaction with a new user, stolen card number at the ready. Building a secure customer journey is always a bit of a balancing act. It has to be secure first and foremost, particularly when payments data is on the line.

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European Card Fraud in 2021: Winners, Losers and Scams

FICO

European Card Fraud in 2021: Winners, Losers and Scams. The United Kingdom and the Nordic region continue to lead Europe in terms of digital transformation and fraud loss reduction - but non-card scams are rising fast. Only four countries of the 18 we studied improved their card fraud performance in 2021. Darcy Sullivan.

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