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Hillbilly Elegy Author On Payments Innovation For Everyone
 
The 51% of American households who live on less than $36K a year is the demographic JD Vance brought to life in Hillbilly Elegy — and he came to Innovation Project this year with a pretty direct message for innovators: What you do is amazing — but much of it is missing half the country. Vance appeared at IP 2017 with Walmart's Daniel Eckert to deliver a compelling call to action for FinTech innovators to think outside of their Silicon Valley tech center boxes and help.
 
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Pindrop’s Solutions Fight Call Center And Voice Fraud
 

What's left out of the classic image of payment fraud, said David Dewey, director of research at Pindrop Security, is the element of voice. All too often, voice interaction with call center agents was the simplest way fraudsters used to get around payment security measures--until Pindrop started using 'phone prints' to tackle voice fraud.   Read More...

 
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Alphabet Tracker: Future Moves
 

All eyes on the future in this edition of Alphabet Tracker. Stocks keep rising with analysts projecting a $1,000 milestone in the next 12 months. Alphabet invests in cross-border payments, Nest looks to lessen cost-based barriers to smart home tech, and Google makes a chat play to win over the enterprise market.  Read More...

 
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Breach Hits Canadian Agency, Cyber Ransoms Surge
 

Hackers have no problem going after the big fish; from government agencies to global tech giants, cybercriminals have their eyes on the most lucrative prizes. In this week’s Hacker Tracker, PYMNTS was joined by Andrew Douthwaite, VP of Managed Services for VirtualArmour, who shared insights on some of the biggest news hitting the cybersecurity space this week.  Read More...

 
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