Merchant Risk Council

With the vision of making commerce safe and profitable everywhere, the Merchant Risk Council is the leading global business association for eCommerce fraud and payments professionals.

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2019 Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2019 MRC Technology Award winners, Cequence Security and Arkose Labs. Thank you for your commitment to integrity, innovation, and ingenuity by delivering world class products and helping merchants successfully fight fraud and optimize payments.

Upcoming Webinars

Join us for our upcoming webinars featuring the latest in cybercrime threat analysis, the impact of Strong Customer Authentication on customer experience, stakeholders in processing eCommerce payments, key takeaways from the 2019 MRC Global Fraud Survey, functionality available in today's payment engines and transaction switching products, the evolution of fraud prevention, and ways to treat and prevent gift card fraud and abuse.

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Industry News

Finextra Research News

Canadian regulators ink cooperation deal with UK's FCA on sandbox initiative
The securities regulatory authorities in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Sc...
Moneycorp name Bob Down CEO, North America
moneycorp, the foreign exchange, international payments, and FX risk management provider has appoint...
Avoiding the Herd in Overcrowded Alt Data
Fundamental investment managers are mining alternative data, but some worry that the same data sets...
Distressed Loan Settlement: New Thinking and Technology for Inventory Management and Upstream Revie […]
Mike Kerrigan, partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, and manager, Magis Analytics LLC, is coauthor of t...
T-Mobile takes on US banks with checking account
Telecoms giant T-Mobile is taking on the American banks, teaming up with BankMobile to launch an app...

Krebs on Security

Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Writing, Selling Banking Malware
Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online b[…]
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
The criminals responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro, In[…]
How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach
I'm not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally it seems necessary to pub[…]
Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro
Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro [NYSE:WIT] is investigating reports from multiple security experts that Wip[…]
‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams
Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called "Land L[…]

The Paypers

USDA pilot opens online grocery shopping for customers on public assistance
(The Paypers) The USDA (US Department of Agriculture) has launched a pilot program that will open up online grocery shopping to those on public assis[…]
Capital Bank of Jordan selects Backbase for digital transformation
(The Paypers) The Capital Bank of Jordan has signed for Backbase’s digital channels platform.
JAGGAER expands services to North American transportation companies
(The Paypers) JAGGAER, a spend management company, has revealed that the company’s solutions are now in use by three of the top five North Amer[…]
SDI launches Zeus cloud-based B2B platform
(The Paypers) SDI, a provider of digital supply chain services and technology, has launched ZEUS, a cloud-based B2B technology platform.
Sportsbet.io facilitates crypto options, by integrating Litecoin
(The Paypers) Multi-currency sportsbook Sportsbet.io has integrated Litecoin, further facilitating its payment capabilities, after following popular […]