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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Fraud and scams move to the web. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Online skimming.

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Why Sucessful Central Bank Digital Currencies require Partnership enagement

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Data privacy; e-wallets, devices and transaction systems should not have direct access to sensitive personal data. However, in some circumstances, the institutions handling money as part of a retail transaction should have the ability to perform KYC (Know Your Customer) checks, as mandated under their industry compliance regime.

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