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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.
              GATEWAY CUSTOMIZABLE                                                New NACHA program

                         TO YOUR NEEDS?                                           supports B2B invoicing
                                                                                  NACHA  –  The  Electronic  Payments
                                                                                  Association took action to  encour-
                              HUMAN ELEMENT                                       age businesses to use more electronic
                                                                                  data exchanges in cash management
                   Dedicated ISO/ISV implementation manager                       operations. The ACH rules group ap-
                                     API FIRST                                    proved a new Request for Payment
                                                                                  program that leverages electronic data
                   Leverage our REST API for faster integrations                  interchange standards to support elec-
                                                                                  tronic invoicing and collections. The
                                   CLOUD EMV                                      program, which is voluntary, aims to

                    No additional hardware/software required                      nudge businesses closer to faster, more
                                                                                  integrated  handling  of  business-to-
                                    FEATURES                                      business billings and payments.

            •Web-based EMV Virtual Terminal           •Processor Agnostic         Banking-as-a-service
                                                                                  from Amazon?
            •Solutions to stay out of PCI Scope       • Invoicing
            •Hosted Payment Pages                     •Level 2 & 3                Amazon.com Inc. may partner with a
            •Tokenization & Recurring                 •P2PE                       U.S. bank to build a checking account
                                                                                  product, according to recent media re-
                                                                                  ports.  Early-stage discussions  began
                                                                                  after Amazon sent a request for pro-
                                                                                  posal for a hybrid checking account
                                                                                  product to several major banks in the
                                                                                  fourth quarter of 2017.
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                                                                                  online financing through their stores
                                                                                  an important component for driv-
                                                                                  ing  new  and  increased  sales  online.
                                                                                  Forty-six percent indicated this option
                                                                                  would decrease cart abandonment,
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