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EU card fraud nets organised crime EUR1.5bn a year - Europol
This blog is a reproduction of a comment from Pat Carroll, CEO, ValidSoft. It explains why Europol's suggested solution to cross-border card fraud (i.e. geo-blocking of EU issued EMV cards) is not the right way to go about it.
http://www.finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24420
The financial services industry and recent data breaches
The evolution of online technologies has opened up new means for fraudsters to steal data that leaves the financial services industry at risk, more so than ever before. Pat Carroll, CEO of ValidSoft, a provider of telecommunications-based authentication and transaction verification solutions, discusses the ever-evolving methods of online fraud and what the financial services industry should learn from breaches.
Mobile Payments Race
My CEO wrote recently on project OSCAR and clearance from the EC (http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?blogid=6923). Point of interest for this group is how security could well become the key differentiator for whomever will win that race. There are lots of players out there. Often with emerging technologies, the urgency of getting product to market is not aligned with a corresponding urgency for risk-management.
Security Solutions in Action
In 3mns, you see how multi-layered and multi-factor authentication solutions can prevent fraud in financial services
Keep it private
This is an extract from a blog previously published on finextra.com









