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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

Andrew Doukanaris Ambassador, The Payments Association While vIBANs have positive use cases, challenges exist in limited monitoring of the end user, alignment with the PSPs risk appetite, and the lack of a consistent framework to mitigate financial crime and regulatory risks.

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Preparing Merchants For The Coming Mobile Wallet Boost

PYMNTS

Even waving the card at the point of sale (POS) may face headwinds because of transaction limits. NFC helps prevent fraudsters from being able to hack into POS systems and steal cardholder information, so it is truly is a safer transaction for the merchants,” he noted. Incentivizing The Consumer.

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Fed Says America Needs Instant Payments As Soon As Possible

PYMNTS

The Fed is defining instant payments as a subset of payments in which an end user receives funds in near real time, with immediate interbank settlement of the payment also having occurred. That will include allowing banks to set various transaction limits.

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Charter School Budgets Limiting Spend Control, BuyQ Says

PYMNTS

Though eProcurement and B2B eCommerce solutions providers have largely looked to provide a “consumer-like” shopping experience for end users, reliance on consumer portals and websites can derail schools’ spend management efforts.

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EPC Chair On SEPA’s Instant Credit Transfer, One Year In

PYMNTS

With the SCT Inst scheme, he noted, end users can transfer up to €15,000 ($17,004 USD) between accounts 24/7, with a maximum 10-second time frame. Santamaria stated that there’s evidence from the field that transactions are getting done in as little as three seconds.

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The Coming October Purchase Alert Mandate

PYMNTS

14, 2016, any bank that issues a Visa-branded card must give cardholders the option to register for alerts related to any card and card-not-present transactions, international cross-border transactions, and transaction amounts that an authorized cardholder has specified based on some transactional limit.

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