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OfferUp’s General Counsel On Keeping Marketplace Shoppers Safe From Scammers

The thrill of the hunt — and chance to snag a good deal — is what drives millennials to local marketplaces. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker, Nathan Garnett, general counsel of online peer-to-peer (P2P) shopping marketplace OfferUp, explains how combining user ID verification badges, safety tips and machine learning-based fraud detection tools is making that hunt less fruitful for the scammers and safer for deal hunters.

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Are Mobile Card Apps Small FI’s Killer App?

Apps can be game-changers in the quickly evolving world of payments — but are they the silver bullet banks are looking for to give that digital competitive edge? Vaduvur Bharghavan, CEO of digital card service provider Ondot, talks with Karen Webster on the heels of its Card App launch, and why he says Apple Card may have set the caliber for what that silver bullet may look like.

Podcast: How To Instant Series

Why Slow Payments Aren’t Necessarily Safer Payments

Just because payments are sent instantly, doesn’t mean that they’re more likely to increase the risk of fraud. Although there are security issues to keep in mind, Ingo Money Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer Lisa McFarland explained that they can be mitigated by technology in a way that old school analog disbursements can’t. And why slow payments aren't always safer payments.

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Citi Explores The Real-Time User Experience

The real-time payment rail floodgates are open, and with the groundwork now laid, faster payments adoption must come from focusing on the user experience, Anupam Sinha, global head of domestic payments and receivables at Citi, tells Karen Webster. In PYMNTS' latest Treasurer's Need To Know podcast, Sinha explores the Open Banking opportunity to add value to real-time payments infrastructure, and make the user experience nearly invisible.

Walmart’s Daniel Eckert On Why TailFin Is Retail’s Next Big Thing

It promises to be among the bigger trends of the new decade — the closer relationship between FinTech and retail technology. And Walmart and Green Dot just added fuel to that trend via a deal announced Tuesday. In a new PYMNTS interview, Daniel Eckert, senior vice president of Walmart Services and Digital Acceleration, explains the motivations for that deal and talks about what’s to come.

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