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WikiLeaks supporters briefly regained access to Visa's payment gateway in a series of rapid midweek developments, but by Friday the gateway closed again.
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PayPal revolutionized how consumers pay for goods online. It's not about to be usurped by the mobile payments movement.
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PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is planning to provide a mobile banking app by October for customers of its Virtual Wallet account that use smartphones running Google Inc.'s Android software.
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EBay Inc. is building on the mobile payments strategy of its PayPal unit with its $240 million deal to buy Zong Inc., a company that lets consumers charge purchases of digital goods to their wireless phone bills.
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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney says two CDs containing personal information on 34,000 investment clients were lost in transit to a government office.
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The emerging U.S. mobile-payments market could face some resistance from consumers who are worried about fraud, according to new research.
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Geezeo Inc., announced a partnership on Wednesday with Sharetec Systems Inc. to offer its online banking and personal financial management services to Sharetec's credit union clients.
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Yodlee Inc. said Wednesday that it has surpassed 30 million registered users for its products and services.
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The email addresses and unencrypted passwords of all 300,000 of a Groupon subsidiary's users have been exposed, StorefrontBacktalk reported June 30.
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A growing number of lawsuits over data breaches could place more liability on the companies behind the software that was exploited in the attacks and thus force an increase in security, Ars Technica reported Friday.
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Twenty-seven usernames and encrypted passwords, supposedly for an Apple Inc. website, were posted online over the weekend with a warning from the hacker group Anonymous, according to an article Computerworld ran Monday.
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Many financial institutions and other companies have started to rely on Twitter as a trusted channel for communication, so it was odd to see an official Fox News account fall victim for about 10 hours before the company regained control.
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Hackings, hackings and more hackings: Lulz Security gets a taste of its own medicine; Anonymous sends a warning to Apple; Fox News loses control.
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Branch traffic is declining as consumers gravitate toward web and mobile channels. And running branch networks remains expensive, accounting for about 50% of a bank's operating budget. But they're still important. BTN looks at how Umpqua, Citi and Huntington are using technology to engage customers.
Umpqua Keeps Testing New Ideas Citi Turns to Apple For Inspiration Huntington Dives Into Digital Signage Robo Tellers
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Western Union Co. has struck a deal that will make it a competitor, and also a potential partner, for banks trying to capture a bigger chunk of the business payments market.
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Governments are poised to impose a global identification system on the financial industry as well as on main street corporations that use financial markets. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research is scheduled to do this by July 15 if the industry does not come together to do this themselves.
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Western Union said Tuesday that it is buying the business payments unit of London-based Travelex Holdings for £606, or about $1 billion.
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