Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 5 June 2019
News on CIBC, NAB and Bank Leumi alliance, SoFi funding and more!
Tsys
Global Payments and TSYS agree mega-merger
The third major payments industry deal so far this year.
TSYS to power JP Morgan’s commercial virtual card issuance
JP Morgan will leverage the Virtual Payment Precept solution from TSYS to broaden its virtual card offering.
TSYS to acquire fellow paytech firm Cayan for $1.05bn
The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 next year.
TSYS launches fraud prevention tool that learns
Global payments provider TSYS announced June 12 it has launched TSYS Foresight Score with Featurespace, a fraud-prevention and risk-scoring product that integrates artificial intelligence, enabling the software to learn and improve its ability to detect fraudulent behavior while reducing false positives, the company says.
Lack of EMV means US leads the world in card fraud
The US leads the world in card fraud, at least in part because it has lagged in the adoption of the EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) Chip & PIN standard, and continues to use signatures for verification. One result, said Carolyn Balfany, group head for US product delivery at MasterCard Worldwide, during Money2020 in Las […]
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.@WorldlineGlobal completes acquisition of Eurobank’s merchant acquiring business in Greece Global #payments servi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#Nigerian #fintech @moove_io lands $20m from British International Investment With the investment in Moove, BII ai… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…