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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bluefin wins 2022 Fortress
Cyber Security Award
The Business Intelligence Group recognized Bluefin
with a 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Award in the
Data Protection category. The awards program seeks
to identify and reward the world's leading companies
and products that are working to keep sensitive data
and electronic assets safe amid a growing threat from
hackers. Bluefin won the award for its ShieldConex data
security platform, which utilizes both hardware-based
encryption and vaultless tokenization to secure person- Sussex County, Del., since its 2016 founding, MPI said
ally identifiable information, protected health informa-
tion, cardholder data and ACH account data entered
online. The platform masks data upon entry through
Bluefin's iFrame or APIs to ensure it never travels
through a system or network as clear text.
Lior Div an EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Lior Div, Cybereason CEO and co-founder, was named
EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 New England. Div and
Cybereason co-founders, Yossi Naar and Yonatan Striem- RESEARCH
Amit, saw that the security industry was at a crossroads
trying to keep up with adversaries, Cybereason stated,
adding that Div's passion to empower defenders was
ignited when he recognized he could leverage his skills
as a former commander in Israel's Unit 8200, a cyber
offensive unit. As a New England award winner, Div
will be considered by the National independent panel of
judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 National
Awards, which will be announced in November.
Go-Live Faster unveils RTP-Go
Go-Live Faster reported that it unveiled its innovative
Real Time Payments Implementation Accelerator, RTP-
GO, which assesses and reconciles gaps between banks'
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legacy payment systems and emerging domestic and
international messaging standards. Clients of banks
have made it clear that real-time payments capabilities
are one of the most important factors when choosing
a bank, Go-Live Faster stated. RTP- GO, now in pilot,
encompasses a six-step process to identify functional
differences between current payment systems and ISO
20022 messaging standards, precisely map those vari-
ances to pinpoint ISO 20022 standards' impact on down-
stream and upstream applications, validate the migrated
system end-to-end to spot defects, and manage the
defect resolution process.
Inaugural Finclusion Day heralded in ebook
The Inclusion Foundation, released an eBook, The
Network Effect: Digital payments as a gateway to financial
inclusion, in tandem with the first annual Finclusion
Day, celebrating financial inclusion within the payments
sector. The ebook maps out the importance of digital
innovations and technologies to support the financially
excluded, through exploring the four pillars that enable
financial inclusion to occur: technology, government,
education and inclusive communities. This new ebook
presents the view that digital inclusion is a prerequisite
for financial inclusion – digitalization is required to
boost financial inclusion globally.
MPI wins 2022 BBB Delaware Torch Award
Mercantile Processing Inc., a merchant services and POS
company, received the 2022 Better Business Bureau of
Delaware's Torch Award for Ethics. Headquartered in
it has a long standing relationship with the Delaware
business community. The award aims to recognize
companies that display an outstanding level of integrity
and generate trust with their employees, customers, and
community, organizers stated, adding that by focusing
on transparency with merchants and offering employees
an equal opportunity to grow, speak and contribute to
the company culture, MPI emerged as the perfect recipi-
ent for this year's award.
ANA finds tech is marketing's future
The Future of Marketing: A Roadmap to Hypergrowth, a new
ANA study, identifies two distinct groups of marketers,
based on their approaches to innovations and new tech-
nologies, as "hypergrowth" and "laggard." Researchers
classified 38 percent of respondents as hypergrowth,
compared to 27 percent listed as laggards (35 percent
reported moderate growth) and found laggards to be at
a disadvantage due to five key findings: change is inevi-
table, automation is well underway, AI adoption is table
stakes, integrated campaigns deliver results and virtual
reality reigns supreme.