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Protecting Yourself After a Data Breach

June 6, 2013

New York Times- "Javelin’s 2013 Data Breach Fraud Impact Report finds that data breaches are increasingly correlated with fraud; if your personal information is compromised in a data breach, you are much more likely to end up being a victim", said...

Simple Mistakes Pave Way for Costly Data Breaches

June 5, 2013

PaymentSource- Javelin estimates the Global Payments breach that started in 2011 will result in $708 million in losses from 428 fraud cases, averaging $1,654 each. Read More

Prepaid Gains Acceptance; Kardashians a Bad—But Lingering—Memory

May 8, 2013

PaymentsSource- "Prepaid purchase volume, estimated at $150 billion this year, will grow by almost $45 billion over the next five years. Banks can offer a prepaid product to the consumer and maybe transition them into a higher level checking account...

Study finds total cost of 2012 Utah health breach could approach $406 million

April 29, 2013

Associated Press- A 2012 security breach that exposed the personal information of 780,000 Utah residents to hackers could cost as much as $406 million, a new Javelin study finds. Read More

Recent Breaches More Likely To Result In Fraud

April 29, 2013

Dark Reading- A year-old data breach of a Utah Department of Health (UDOH) server......the victims will likely pay much more: $406 million in fraud losses and $94 million in other costs, including the estimated 2.4 million hours needed to resolve...

Mobile Card Acceptance Winning Favor at Big Retailers: Report

April 24, 2013

PaymentSource- Mobile point of sale systems could expand card acceptance by adding as much as 20 million merchants, resulting in a potential $1.1 trillion uptick in annual card payments, Javelin Strategy and Research says in a new report. Read...

How to Tell Customers You're Under (Cyber) Attack

April 19, 2013

American Banker- According to Javelin's Al Pascual, banks should especially address business owners and mobile banking users during outages. "Those are critical segments that banks need to tend to," Pascual says Read More

New Retail POS Forecast Highlights Dramatic Mobile Payments Evolution

April 9, 2013

Mobile Marketing Watch- Over the next six years, an industry-wide push for mobile technology will help propel mobile payments to astonishing growth and will allow mobile POS proximity payments to reach $5.4 billion by 2018, today’s report from...

What Members Want From PFM

April 5, 2013

Credit Union Times- Javelin Strategy & Research recently evaluated the state of PFM and found that nearly one in two U.S. consumers want a single view of their finances in one place. However, not all PFM tools are created equal. Here are five...

Boston to get new Bank of America ATMs with video chats

April 5, 2013

Boston Globe- In a study of Generation Y’s banking habits published in January, Javelin found that 40 percent of 25-to-34-year-olds — more likely than anyone else to bank online — said they prefer completing transactions with a teller, according to...