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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

Again, collaboration is essential to easing this point of friction, Shultz said, highlighting Mastercard’s work with Vocalink – which it acquired in 2016 – to collaborate on more robust fraud solutions. “There is less time to apply traditional fraud techniques,” said Shultz. ” Banks’ Collaborative Opportunity.

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Instant Payments Mean Real-Time Payments Fraud

FICO

In the UK £250K can now be sent in a single, irrevocable payment – and the system has been tested for up to an eyewatering £10 million. When this kind of fraud takes advantage of an instant and irrevocable payment mechanism, losses will sky rocket. In September 2016, the UK consumer group Which? Who Is Liable?

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Fraud Fighters Focusing On Better P2P Security

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The number of P2P payment fraud victims has increased by 733 percent since 2016 and the total amount of money stolen has likewise risen. This immediacy means that, once initiated, the payments are virtually irrevocable. There were 1.4

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The Complicated — And Increasingly Crowded — Payments Battle In China

PYMNTS

According to research from RBR , at the end of 2016, more than six billion UnionPay-branded cards existed worldwide. Their upgrade of the standard convinced regulators to lift the ban in 2016, but UnionPay had invested similarly in QR code upgrades and found itself almost irrevocably behind when the ban was lifted.

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: nanoPay

Fintech Labs Insights

A look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Payments are immediate and irrevocable, no intermediary. Register today. The core MintChip model is a simple direct asset transfer model.

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Nanopay Raises $10 Million Series A

Fintech Labs Insights

Pictured: nanoPay founder and CEO Laurence Cooke demonstrating MintChip at FinovateFall 2016 in New York. The technology provides for final, irrevocable transactions in real-time that are cryptographically secured. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, nanoPay demonstrated MintChip at FinovateFall 2016.

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What Is CRISPR?

CB Insights

All 3 of these companies IPO’ed in 2016 and are in the drug discovery/pre-clinical stage of testing their respective CRISPR therapeutic candidates for various human diseases. In 2016, the white button mushroom , modified to be resistant to browning, became the first CRISPR-edited organism to bypass USDA. OTWELL AND M.