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Cosmetics Brand Natura Exposes Customer Data

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in January accidentally exposed personal information about 250,000 of its customers that could have been accessed by anyone, The Hacker News reported. based in Sao Paulo, inadvertently left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ personal and payment-related information publicly available online. Natura & Co.

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When Micro Supply Chain Frictions Create Major Payment Bottlenecks

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Historically, EDI (electronic data interchange) has been the standard for transmitting data between partners in this space, with businesses relying on EDI to exchange payment-related information like invoicing and transaction data.

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Fed Task Force Releases Payment Lifecycles And Security Profiles

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Beyond advising the Faster Payments Task Force on security issues, the group focuses on identifying the challenges and opportunities related to improving payment security, including identity management, data protection and information sharing to mitigate fraud.

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NACHA Says ACH Booming For B2B

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Businesses also demonstrated an increase in the sending of payments and information together via the ACH network. Almost 2 billion addenda records containing invoice and other payment-related information were transferred over the network through CTX and CCD transactions,” NACHA stated, a figure that marks a 9.1

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Putting Faster Payments To Work

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NACHA President and CEO Jan Estep made it clear that the industry is more than ready for the change, and this week, she provided us with a look at several use cases and applications that Same Day ACH payments are sure to deliver on. The Importance Of Certainty.