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Cybersecurity

Could The Future Of Fighting Fraud On The ‘Dark Web’ Actually Be Bright?

The Dark Web is a minefield for criminal activity where criminals sell payment and consumer ID data on illicit digital marketplaces all in the name of defrauding consumers and merchants. Terbium Labs’ CEO Danny Rogers tells PYMNTS that there are some new, perhaps even counterintuitive, methods to fight back. If FIs are willing to break out of old habits and institutional inertia.

Contextual Commerce

Instagram Talks New Shopping Features And Why It Doesn’t Have A Buy Button

New shopping features recently introduced by Instagram arguably provide a strong sense of where digital commerce is headed, and how more consumers will shop. Instagram’s Paige Cohen talks with PYMNTS about the rationale behind the new tools, and why the social network still doesn’t offer a buy button. In addition, fresh PYMNTS research provides a detailed picture on why companies like Instagram are rushing to beef up their product discovery and mobile offerings.

Payment Methods

Layaway’s Visible Resurrection

Layaway — the practicing of paying off a purchase a little at a time before taking it home — first got its foothold in the U.S. during the Great Depression. By the 1980s, however, the practice was on its way out, and was more or less pulseless in the '90s, displaced by credit cards. But in the last few years layaway has been making a comeback as a conscientious budgeting move, whether or not the customer can use credit.

Cuscal On Digital Banking Done Down Under

Is Australia ready for a purely digital bank? Cuscal is putting tech and funding behind one such offering — called 86400 — that will look to challenge the traditional banking model when it launches next year. In an interview with Karen Weber, Cuscal’s Managing Director Craig Kennedy weighs in on why AI and mobile, combined, can help gain consumers’ trust, and take market share from the “Big Four.”

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