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“Do you accept bitcoin?” Is this the question merchants can expect to be hearing soon? Recent news around bitcoin – specifically its rise above $10,000 in value - has once again begged the question – what is bitcoin? This time the question doesn’t...

Criminals use some of the same email tools marketers do to track down leads – or as the people behind phishing campaigns call them, targets.

Companies that consumers are interacting with on a regular basis are taking on variations of this approach – Google is a great example of an organization whose actions we dissect in our latest report. Compared to Google and others, FIs are falling...

At the CPI Global Payment Summit in New York City, next week, I’ll moderate a conversation between cybersecurity executives and threat intelligence researchers on the most pressing security issues facing the commercial payments organizations inside...

In order to break past the strong digital defenses of financial institutions, malicious hackers attempt to find weak points. Most of the time, these weak points are third parties. To beat back the hackers, bankers have to think like attackers....

Recently released exploits and creative attacks are putting increasingly smaller banks at risk of devastating security incidents. Last week, in Las Vegas, at a pair of security conferences, researchers and vendors both gave pragmatic security advice...

Recent cyberattacks have disrupted some of the world’s leading organizations including drug companies, shipping firms, and even the British national health care system. The intensity and success of these attacks make them among the most significant...

As competition in person-to-person payments heats with news of Apple’s own money transfer service, the intensifying P-to-P battle calls to mind a much earlier tale of competing technologies.

It’s been a busy spring season, no shortage of work to do and conferences to attend. June typically spells a wind down in conferences though there are still a couple this month that I am looking forward to attending.

The lesson is a story about Ant’s Yu’e Bao. According to the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal it means “Leftover Treasure.” Four years ago, Ant Financial, the payments unit of the Alibaba, launched Yu’e Bao to scoop up the leftover...