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U.S. Biometrics Pilot a Success

February 19, 2016/MasterCard By Beth Kitchener This past fall, First Tech Federal Credit Union, the nation’s leading credit union serving employees and family members of America’s technology sector, in cooperation with MasterCard, was one of two global partners to help MasterCard test biometrics payment authentication using the MasterCard Identity Check™ […]

MasterCard Activates Real-Time Intelligence to More Accurately Predict Fraud

February 18, 2016/MasterCard MasterCard today unveiled MasterCard IQ series, a suite of pioneering solutions that use real-time intelligence to empower issuers to make more informed fraud management decisions. Through this effort, cardholders and merchants would see a reduced number of transactions unnecessarily declined, while maintaining the highest levels of security. […]

BUA Says in Talks with Sinoma to Build $1.9 Billion Steel, Cement Plants-Reuters

By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Nigeria’s top tier conglomerate, BUA Group said on Thursday it’s in talks with China’s Sinoma to build a steel plant in Nigeria and two (2) cement plants in East Africa worth $1.9 billion, a Reuters reported quoted Abdulsamad Rabiu, chairman of the Group. According to the report, […]