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What to Know About Tokenization

Basis Theory

Today, we can tokenize anything from credit card primary account numbers (PAN) to one-time debit card transactions or social security numbers. As a merchant, to understand tokenization for your own benefit, it’s critical to understand: What tokenization is, why it’s important for payments, and how it compares to encryption.

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Fostering FinTech-FI Trust With Data-Driven Security

PYMNTS

Open banking provides opportunities such as upgraded customer convenience and customized financial solutions that can help consumers access bank account details, send payments, manage their budgets and more. The benefits are compelling but banks need to understand which entities are using the APIs they provide.

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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

Exact Payments

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. At Exact Payments, we understand the magnitude of the responsibility of handling such sensitive data. We implement TLS 1.3,

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What We’ve Learned Watching Uncle Sam Disburse $2T In Stimulus Payments

PYMNTS

Edwards readily agreed, noting that for everything the government is, it is not a payments company, and was not set up at the outset of this crisis to crash-distribute $2 trillion to hundreds of millions of consumers. But now we have agencies trying to push all these payments out working on top of COBOL-based technology.

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Know Your Customer (KYC): What It Is and How to Comply

Stax

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one.

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The Guide to W-2 Form Automation

Nanonets

It also includes details about the taxes withheld from the employee's paycheck, including federal income tax, Social Security tax, and Medicare tax. They also need to submit a copy of the W-2 form to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the IRS. Who Files a W-2 Form?

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Finovate Global Mexico: A Fundraising Unicorn and Open Finance’s Contribution to Financial Inclusion

Finovate

Mexican digital payments and commerce enablement platform Clip announced a major investment this week. The company, which offers a suite of payments and other financial services solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, has raised $100 million in new funding. .”