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Fiserv dives into cashierless checkout

February 21, 2020

Bank Innovation  -  “Contactless adoption is only going to expand,” Huber said in an email. “In our recent report, we already see that 40% of U.S. consumers have at least once contactless-enabled card in their wallet today. This...

More than half of Americans check their credit scores at least monthly, leading to better borrowing habits

February 11, 2020

USA Today  -  “They’re able to go into the process of applying for a loan with more information and confidence for what they qualify for, what it’s going to cost them and how it impacts their overall financial picture,” says Austin...

Mastercard Forms a Joint Venture To Clear Domestic Chinese Card Transactions

February 11, 2020

Digital Transactions  -  The Mastercard/NetsUnion joint venture is another step for U.S.-based payment networks to expand into China, says Krista Tedder, director of payments at Javelin Strategy...

Online depositors, high interest rates

January 5, 2020

American Banking -  ​Emmett Higdon, Director, Digital Banking shares insights from a Javelin report he wrote in 2018 that found that despite the popularity of smart speakers, consumers have been hesitant to adopt banking by voice. *...

Why a Credit Freeze Alone Won't Stop Identity Theft

September 16, 2019

Consumer Reports  -  Cell-phone account fraud has skyrocketed in the past few years, with the number of victims up 78% in 2018 from the previous year. 

Investors push installment payments into more mature markets

September 9, 2019

PaymentsSource  -  Payments at the point of sale - online and in stores - is changing to meet consumer demands. Previously leaning heavily on store issued cards for the point of sale companies are divesting of the risk of credit cards...

Five Years On, Is Apple Pay Ready To Bloom At Last?

September 9, 2019

Digital Transactions  -  “The significance of Apple Pay is that it was, and still is, a catalyst to digitize payments in a secure manner. Moving from the magnetic stripe to tokenized digital transactions moved the industry past the...

Lost Your Credit Card? Do This

August 30, 2019

Forbes  -  In case of stolen credit cards filing a police report is a critical step; doubly important if your driver’s license was stolen, too, since that information could be used for financial #fraud or criminal impersonation....

Lost amid the Equifax and Capital One hacks: Identity thieves targeting kids with ‘blank slate’ credit histories

August 10, 2019

MarketWatch -  Use strong authentication for any open financial accounts your kids have, and set up new-transaction alerts to help you detect and resolve any unauthorized access to those accounts as early as possible, said Kyle Marchini, a...

Credit Card Data Breaches: How to Handle Them

August 9, 2019

Yahoo! Finance  -  Data breaches are a likely reason for the dramatic increases in identity fraud in recent years. A 2018 study from Javelin Strategy & Research reports that 6.64% of consumers became identity fraud victims in 2017...