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Visa payment gloves keep the cold at bay at Winter Olympics

Sports fans attending the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang will be able to keep their hands warm and fend off frostbite while paying for goods and services thanks to a special pair of wooly mittens bearing the Visa brand and an embedded NFC chip.

08 November 2017

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Seizing the opportunity to collaborate

Lisa Iagatta, Vice Chair of ISITC and Director of Account Management for the Investment Services division of Fiserv, talks at Sibos 2017 about how regulations such as MiFID ll will impact operations, whether rates are improving across the industry in the context of trade affirmations and work ISITC is involved in around margins and collateral.

06 November 2017

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Immunising customers from fraud patterns

Rick Hoehne, VP & Partner, IBM Financial Crimes, Constantin von Altrock Director, CTO, IBM Safer Payments, talk at Sibos 2017 about the challenges banks face around fraud and security, why we are seeing such challenges and what can be done to fight back against them.

03 November 2017

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Cyber protection becoming multi network

Ed Adshead-Grant, General Manager, Payments and Frederic Viard, Director of Global Marketing, Financial Messaging, Bottomline Technologies, talk at Sibos 2017 about SWIFT’s Customer Security Program, where they think the payment security is going next and what the key takeaways from the conference are from a payments security perspective.

03 November 2017

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Mastercard adds former CIA deputy director as senior advisor

Mastercard today named Jeanne Tisinger a senior advisor for cybersecurity.

03 November 2017

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Influencing customer behaviour during pricing transactions

Akshaya Kapoor, Senior Director, Product Strategy and Global Solutions Head, Oracle, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether we are really valuing the true relationship with the customer while pricing, whether we have enough data to run analytical models for efficient pricing and how dynamic pricing for agile strategies will align with critical customer events and milestones.

02 November 2017

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American Express upgrades SafeKey authentication

American Express today announced SafeKey 2.0, the next generation of its online authentication tool built specifically to meet the needs of today’s increasingly mobile commerce environment.

02 November 2017

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Ingenico introduces AI-powered 'zero fraud'tech

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, has expanded its fraud detection and management capabilities with a new, real time solution that enables merchants to increase revenue by optimising their acceptance rate and reduce customer churn.

02 November 2017

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BS/2's ATMeye.iQ software to be installed on 9,000 US ATMs

ATMs serviced by one of the U.S. largest banking and retail equipment supplies and maintenance networks will be equipped with software developed by the Lithuanian BS/2 company. According to Tomas Augucevičius, BS/2 Deputy Director General, next year the specialized ATMeye.iQ software will be installed on some 9,000 ATMs.

02 November 2017

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EMVCo releases Secure Remote Commerce Technical Framework

Technical body EMVCo has publicly released EMV® Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) – Technical Framework version 1.0.

02 November 2017

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Visa rolls out real-time payments platform in Europe

Visa is to bring its real-time payments platform to market in Europe after experiencing strong growth in other key markets globally.

02 November 2017

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Beyond to offer CardFlight mPOS system

CardFlight, a mobile point-of-sale (POS) technology provider and Beyond, a financial technology company that provides business tools and services, including payment processing, employee management, POS, and lending, to small and midsized businesses, announced that Beyond will offer CardFlight's SwipeSimple mobile point-of-sale.

01 November 2017

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Interac debit comes to Samsung Pay in Canada

Canadian debit network Interac has introduced support for Samsung Pay, enabling customers of participating banks to add their cards to the mobile wallet and make NFC payments.

01 November 2017

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Charting the future of European payments

Marc Bayle de Jesse, Director General, Market Infrastructure and Payments, ECB, Hays Littlejohn, Chief Executive Officer, EBA Clearing, and Saskia Devolder, Managing Director/Head of Western and Central Europe, SWIFT, talk at Sibos 2017 about developments in real-time payments and how banks can maximise their investments in payments change.

01 November 2017

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Capital One and Intuit seal data sharing deal

Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced an agreement with Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) allowing Capital One customers who use Intuit's suite of services including QuickBooks Online, Mint, and TurboTax, to securely import their financial data without sharing login credentials.

01 November 2017

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Contis appoints Deborah Levy as managing director of Engage

Contis, a leading provider of end-to-end banking, payments and processing solutions in the UK and Europe, is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Levy as Managing Director of Engage, its market-leading proposition for credit unions.

01 November 2017

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The test of new technology

Parviz Peiravi, CTO Financial Services, Intel, talks about the main technology trends at Sibos 2017, what he thinks will emerge in the coming year, how financial institutions are adopting the new technology and what they can do next to build foundations that will enable them to take advantage of these new developments.

01 November 2017

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Compass Plus scores PA DSS v3.2 compliance

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced that both its TranzAxis platform and TranzWare product suite have been accepted as compliant with the latest PA DSS standard (version 3.2).

31 October 2017

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ai buys SmartCentric

The ai Corporation (ai) has acquired SmartCentric Technologies International Limited (SmartCentric) for an undisclosed sum.

31 October 2017

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EMVCo updates EMV 3-D Secure specification

Technical body EMVCo has publicly released EMV® 3-D Secure – Protocol and Core Functions Specification v2.1.0. The updated document follows the release of version 2.0.0 in October 2016, and includes additional functionality and enhancements to promote secure, consistent consumer e-commerce transactions across all channels and connected devices, while optimising the cardholder’s experience.

31 October 2017