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Today In Data: Opioid Addiction, Same Day ACH And Women Shoppers

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billion in funds and averaging about $650 per transaction — all driven by C2B transfers, which made up 94 percent of the activity. 1 percent | Rise in the number of paper checks since 2013, according to the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), which released its 2016 Electronic Payments Survey earlier this year.

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Sleepless In Payments

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The POS breaches that colored our world in payments starting at the tail end of 2013 set in motion a whole host of activities designed to protect payments data at the physical point of sale. SHOULDN’T WE BE PROTECTING MORE THAN JUST PAYMENTS DATA?