Are You Missing Out On Emerging Markets? – Seeking Alpha

By Jeremy SchwartzLast week I spoke with Jared Dillian, editor of the Daily Dirtnap, and Caesar Maasry, Head of Emerging Market (EM) Equity Strategy at

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Jonathan Chevreau: What to consider when buying emerging-market funds – Financial Post

August’s scary market selloff drove most emerging markets into bear territory.

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Target converts to credit cards with PINs, not just signatures, for security … – cleveland.com

Two years after its catastrophic data breach, Target has become the first major credit card issuer to convert to cards that contain a PIN.

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Netflix just blamed poor US subscriber growth on those new chips in credit cards – Business Insider

In a letter to shareholders, Netflix said its forecast for the third quarter was due to higher-than-expected “involuntary churn.”

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Fraud Summit New York 2015

From account takeover to phishing, insider threat to payment card fraud, this one-day summit tackles all the fraud issues that confront institutions today.

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EMV cards are new retail reality – Reading Eagle

U.S. banks undertook a massive project to catch up with the rest of the world in replacing antiquated magnetic strip cards with cards embedded with computer chips.

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Worldpay tests fraud-preventing facial recognition technology – ATM Marketplace (press release)

A prototype PIN entry device camera incorporates low-cost, readily available facial recognition technology into a card terminal that ‘learns’ the cardholder’s profile over time.

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US move to EMV technology makes card transactions safer – Chicago Tribune

I just got an unmarked envelope in the mail from my bank with a South Dakota return address. (Public service announcement: The most unassuming letters are the ones you should definitely open!) It contained a brand-new debit card with a microchip.

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Slow Down Ahead For Payments Industry Revenue Growth

2015 may have been a landmark year for the global payments industry, but a new report suggests that what goes up must come down — even advanced payments strategies.

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CyPhy Raises $22M To Mass Produce Drones

Two lines of business dominate robot manufacturing company iRobot: the marquee vacuum, Roomba, and another one that gets rid of bombs.

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