The Payments Association

JUNE 16, 2025

Mark McMurtie Ambassador, TPA “Recent cybersecurity attacks and data breaches in the retail industry reinforce the need for a more robust and secure retail ecosystem.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 11, 2025

Digital lenders, neobanks, and payment firms must comply with capital requirements, operational standards, and governance rules. As financial services shift online, platforms become targets for hackers, phishing attacks, and data breaches. Growth must be matched by governance, risk management, and long-term vision.

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FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border 52

Finextra

JUNE 2, 2025

Yet, DeFi also raises new challenges that open banking didn’t have to fully confront – which we’ll get to when discussing governance and regulation. If DeFi is the wild West of open finance, how do governance and regulation evolve to handle this new frontier? In many ways, it’s extending the trajectory that open banking started.

Finance 52

Finance Payment APIs and Integration API Regulations 52

Innovative Payments Association

JULY 22, 2025

In fact, as oversight responsibilities shift or become less defined, companies face even greater pressure to self-govern their third-party relationships with diligence and structure. Companies must stay vigilant and proactive in monitoring the full lifecycle of vendor engagement, from onboarding to termination.

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M2P Fintech

MARCH 24, 2025

The integration of environmental, social, and governance ( ESG ) criteria into lending practices will further promote sustainable and socially responsible financing. These vulnerabilities demand robust protection measures to safeguard sensitive data and maintain trust. over the forecast period of 2024 to 2032.

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Payment APIs and Integration Blockchain Regulatory Compliance Underwriting 52

Stax

JULY 7, 2025

Local laws and regulations govern surcharging in each jurisdiction. Security and compliance: Verify that the provider adheres to industry standards, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance, to protect sensitive customer data and minimize the risk of data breaches.

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EBizCharge

JUNE 12, 2025

Payment security concerns: With increasing threats like fraud, chargebacks, and data breaches, many businesses struggle to adapt to evolving compliance standards and security protocols, which can decrease customer trust and revenue. Level 2 and 3 processing is primarily used for business-to-business (B2B) and government payments.

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Finovate

JANUARY 24, 2025

The regulatory landscape for fintechs and financial services companies operating in the European Union is expected to undergo significant changes this year, with new standards, guidelines, and rules governing payments, data privacy, digital assets, and more. It increases the risk of data breaches, identity theft, and payment fraud.

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Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

The Security Fortress: Protecting Data in a Vulnerable World At the heart of this reluctance lies a deep-seated concern for data security and privacy. Organizations are acutely aware of the potential for catastrophic data breaches, and the implications are severe.

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AI Payment APIs and Integration Audit Governance 59

VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 21, 2023

Not sure where to start if you notice a data breach? Here are seven essential steps to follow Becoming aware that your company has suffered a data breach can be unsettling. Identifying and Containing the Damage Once you have been made aware of a data breach, the first step is to identify and contain the damage.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The French Data Protection Authority said Thursday (Dec. 20) that it fined Uber $460,000 over its 2016 data breach that exposed the data on 57 million customers and drivers across the world. Uber paid hackers to hide the breach for about a year before it was disclosed. fined the ride-hailing company $490,760.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

25), the DPC said it was again looking into the social media giant because of another breach notification it received from the company, according to a report from Reuters. The DPC has this week opened a new statutory inquiry into the latest data breach it received from Twitter on 8 January, 2019,” the Commission said on its website.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2020

With governments imposing lockdowns to contain the virus, hackers have been known to pose as banks or other legitimate institutions to try to glean access to people’s private information to use for nefarious means, such as identity theft.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

15) the results of the third annual Ponemon Institute’s “Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem” study, which found that 59 percent of companies surveyed said they have experienced a data breach caused by their vendors or third parties. Opus said that in the U.S., Opus said that in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

So far this year (and there’s still one more day), Verizon reported that there have been 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that 68 percent of those breaches took months for the breached companies to discover. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. The company said that a third party breached and used the phone number of a BlockFi staffer to get into a part of the company’s encrypted back-office system without permission.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

president and other senior government officials. 11 advised possible victims that there was a “data breach” involving a system run by the agency. Social Security numbers and other sensitive information are believed to have been breached between May and July of 2019, the letter said. Letters dated on Feb.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Princess Cruises disclosed a potential data breach in a notice posted on its website. According to the notice, “Upon identifying this potential security issue, we engaged cybersecurity forensic experts and initiated an investigation to determine what happened, what data was affected, and who was impacted.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

In the wake of some high-profile cyberattacks on small businesses and local governments, new research suggests that the pain points of such incidents last long after systems are back up and running. Small government entities, too, are facing these risks. With organizations facing the loss or theft of over 11.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Reports in Business News Daily on Friday (March 15), co-authored by Assistant Professors of Finance Dr. Daniele Bianchi and Dr. Onur Tosun, found that data breaches at large organizations may cause financial losses at those companies, but they eventually lead to greater investments in their CEOs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The prohibition is part of a larger legal reform that also bans government officials from opening accounts at foreign banks. The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated.

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VISTA InfoSec

JULY 19, 2024

This might lead to serious data breaches , such as exposing customers’ information across financial, government, or healthcare facilities. Network vulnerabilities: Unsecure PCBs will potentially fail to protect network security appliances.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Corporations are bracing for major changes to their operations, and many will miss the May 25 deadline as they struggle to overcome challenges related to key components of the new rules, including data breach notification. businesses is the data breach notification requirement. “In

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang — care of the largest data breach ever recorded. No one wants to see a world in which the government decides they don’t like what you do, and then decides to claw back your wealth. Stripe’s Instant Pay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The hackers behind that data breach at Marriott International may have been working for the government of China as part of an intelligence-gathering effort, reported Reuters. In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 30, 2019

At the same time, consumers hold banks to tougher disclosure standards than government agencies, health care organizations and retailers, according to Experian.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

As local- and state-level government entities continue to run, it’s not business as usual for the public sector — particularly in the way these entities make and receive payments. As a result, it’s placing greater pressure on government entities to digitize payment acceptance capabilities. Business-To-Government Payments.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This might lead to serious data breaches , such as exposing customers’ information across financial, government, or healthcare facilities. Network vulnerabilities: Unsecure PCBs will potentially fail to protect network security appliances.

Cybersecurity 189

Cybersecurity Encryption Fraud Detection CHIPS 189

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans have started a probe into Capital One and Amazon over a massive data breach that affected millions, according to a report by the Financial Times. . The committee sent out two letters and asked for a “staff-level briefing” with both companies in the next two weeks regarding the breach.

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VISTA InfoSec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Data breaches, cyberattacks and misuse of personal information are severe threats challenging the privacy of customers data, they can not only damage a companys reputation but can also lead to heavy fines if compromised. To overcome these challenges, data protection laws are established.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data breaches, cyberattacks and misuse of personal information are severe threats challenging the privacy of customer’s data, they can not only damage a company’s reputation but can also lead to heavy fines if compromised. To overcome these challenges, data protection laws are established.

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VISTA InfoSec

MAY 20, 2025

Gary Hayslip: LinkedIn Profile CISO at SoftBank Investment Advisers | 197,268 followers Garys career spans government, startups, and major enterprises – making him a powerhouse of practical security leadership. Whether its a data breach or a dark web marketplace, chances are he covered it first and better than anyone else.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The government is among those whose expertise and data can add fuel to digital ID innovation efforts — and such involvement will likely to have increase over time, according to a new PYMNTS interview. And that’s where governments come in, given the ID databases they maintain.

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VISTA InfoSec

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

(Clause 10 (2) (a), DPDP Act) The Significant Data Fiduciary shall appoint a Data Protection Officer who shall: Represent the Significant Data Fiduciary under the provisions of this Act. Be an individual responsible to the Board of Directors or similar governing body of the Significant Data Fiduciary.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Government Payment Service , the company that enables online payments for thousands of U.S. state and local governments, has inadvertently made available information on more than 14 million customers from as long as six years ago.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

From cannabis legalization to the federal shutdown, government actions are reshaping financial circumstances for consumers and businesses alike. Securing personal data is top of mind for consumers, too, with 1.1 million Americans experiencing fraud in 2017 amid a rise in data breaches.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The Facebook Cambridge Analytica breach and the knowledge that the company was selling private information to companies might mean that Congress will consider a version of the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). One of the things we will be looking at is GDPR.

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