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Editor's Note: Following are excerpts from news stories recently posted under Breaking Industry bat criminal activities has inadver-
News on our home page. For links to these and other full news stories, please visit www.green- tently harmed millions of legitimate
sheet.com/breakingnews.php?flag=previous_breaking_news. business owners. Critics maintain that
OCP measures have led to stringent
NRF identifies flaws in data breach bill "de-risk" policies that inhibit high-risk
merchants from opening and main-
The National Retail Federation urged members of the U.S. House Financial Ser- taining bank accounts and lines of
vices Committee to rewrite proposed legislation pertaining to data breach noti-
fications. The NRF, which has long pushed for uniform data breach legislation, credit.
called the bill a good effort that falls short of protecting retailers. Midmarket to drive global
National ATM Council's Choke Point battle rages on cybersecurity spend
While the U.S. Department of Justice officially terminated Operation Choke Over the next four years, midmarket
Point in August 2017, it appears numerous financial institutions have not re- companies are expected to drive 70
ceived the memo. Opponents claim the Obama-era initiative designed to com- percent of global investment in cyber-
security solutions, which could reach
$134 billion in total combined global
IS YOUR PAYMENT annual spending by 2022, according to
Juniper Research Ltd.
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posal for a hybrid checking account
product to several major banks in the
fourth quarter of 2017.
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