Lawmakers push back on MoneyGram Alipay deal, Bitcoin fuels global ransomware attacks, U.S. China reach payments trade deal. | | Banks And FinTech Start-Ups: At Odds No More? The party line, until recently, was that FinTech start-ups thought about innovation first and traditional banks thought about innovation last and never the two would meet. But FI.SPAN Co-Founder, Clayton Weir, says that thinking has changed â on both sides. He tells PYMNTS how â and why. Read More... |
Keeping Third Party Risk First On The Cyber (Risk) List As companies expand and interact with an ever-widening web of vendors, third party risk deepens as data is shared and potentially, exposed. In the latest Topic TBD, Gayle Woodbury, managing director at Crowe Horwath, weighed in with PYMNTSâ Karen Webster on why risk control needs to have broad horizons. Read More... |
| Bitcoin | Why Itâs Time To Come Down On Bitcoin Taking a companyâs data hostage is bad enough. But when it also cripples a doctorâs ability to treat patients, a huge line has been crossed, says Karen Webster. The cyberattacks last weekend targeting 100,000 institutions, including hospitals, in 150 countries were made possible courtesy of bitcoin and a threat that law enforcement says will only get worse. Itâs why Webster says itâs time to give bitcoin a serious regulatory reality check â and why we might need to channel our inner Frances Kelsey to do it. Whoâs that and what does she have to do with bitcoin? Guess youâll have to read on. Read More... | | |
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