Dispatch Countdown Issues: Dec 23 & 30, 2020

The last two weeks of the year provide a countdown on the most read articles in MAC Dispatch in 2020

Link to MAC Dispatch for the week of Dec 23, 2020 (Counts down articles 30-16):

https://multibriefs.com/briefs/mac/MAC122320.php

Link to MAC Dispatch for the week of Dec 30, 2020 (Counts down articles 15-1):

https://multibriefs.com/briefs/mac/MAC123020.php 

December 23, 2020 Articles:

30. Payment processing services: Change was inevitable
31. UPI transactions on the rise: Is this indicative of a systemic shift?
32. The American consumer is flush with cash after paying down debt
33. The impact of SARs disclosures on financial institutions
34. Touchless is pushing payments beyond the card
35. Verizon: Just 25 per cent of global businesses comply fully with the Payment Card Industry Data
36. Mastercard announces newest participants in FinTech accelerator program
37. Why aggregation is key to tackling fake medicines
38. 14 finance experts share their biggest fintech predictions for 2021
39. How to fight against 'authorized payment fraud'
40. Secretive high-end art world can be vehicle for dirty money, US Treasury warns
41. New Vizom malware discovered targets Brazilian bank customers with remote overlay attacks
42. Use of cash has decreased while Payment as a Service (PaaS) platforms have increased during pandemic
43. Lois Greisman, FTC's Associate Director for Marketing Practices, receives 42nd Annual Roger W.
44. PayPal to open up network to cryptocurrencies

December 30, 2020 Articles:

15. UK lawmakers are launching a formal inquiry based on the FinCEN files
16. The COVID payment fraud acceleration
17. OLB Group expands support for Apple Pay and Google Pay
18. CBDCs mean evolution, not revolution
19. JPMorgan Chase takes on Square and PayPal with smartphone card reader, faster deposits for merchants
20. Cybercrime task force monitoring the global digital financial system
21. Silent Eight leverages AI to detect and solve financial crime
22. The payments industry's role in cybersecurity
23. Bain Capital Ventures: 2020 is B2B payments' breakout year
24. 6 money laundering reforms that experts say need to happen right now
25. Crooks are creating synthetic shoppers
26. Artificial Intelligence reshaping risk management in the BFSI sector
27. Real-time payments industry is set to undergo radical changes
28. USAA Bank fined $85 million by federal regulators for 'violations of law'
29. Perspective: MAC President and the Year in Review