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Editor's Note: Following are excerpts from news stories recently posted under Breaking Industry ETA, Strawhecker reveal upbeat
News on our home page. For links to these and other full news stories, please visit www.green- report on economy, payments
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The Electronic Transactions Association,
Consumers want payment choices, not cashless society in partnership with The Strawhecker
Group, released the upbeat Strategic
According to the Health of Cash consumer survey just released by Cardtronics, Leadership Forum (SLF) Special Report
even the most digitally savvy among us – millennials – like the idea of on the U.S. Economy. The report helped
carrying cash. Millennials, while leading proponents of digital wallets, are kick off Payments Analytics Month,
more likely than others to use cash for P2P payments, according to the study. which was founded by Strawhecker
"to highlight the strategic importance
of using analytics to enhance decision
making while providing payments
industry players with a bevy of
powerful data," the consultancy stated.

Sonic, Yahoo breaches
painful reminders of vulnerability

Sonic Corp. issued a statement
confirming a massive security breach
of its POS systems. The incident led
to a fire sale of millions of credit and
debit card account numbers on the Dark
Web. "We are working to understand
the nature and scope of this issue, as
we know how important this is to our
guests," the company stated.

FICO launches algorithms
to attack CNP fraud

Fair Isaac Corp. introduced machine
Future Digital learning algorithms that it said can boost
card-not-present fraud (CNP) detection
by 30 percent. While widespread EMV
Finance West chip card implementation will make it
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counterfeit cards at the physical POS,
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