By: Brian Scott, SVP and Chief Growth Officer, Primax The Spring 2022 edition of the Primax Payments Pulse found continued, strong consumer purchasing activity, despite ongoing inflationary pressures. In April 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported the...
By: Gene Fredriksen, Security Strategy Consultant I recently worked with a financial institution that had just been the victim of a phishing attack. The email looked official, and the link directed the staff to a page that was a perfect copy of an Office 365 login...
By: Brian Scott, Chief Growth Officer, Primax When it comes to payments processing providers, banks don’t always know that they have options outside of their core processor. There are many innovative payments fintech providers that can offer more capabilities than a...
By: Jeremiah Lotz, Managing Vice President, Digital & Data, Primax Whether financial institutions realize it or not, the future of the financial services industry will be heavily shaped and impacted by access to and full utilization of data science and analytics....
By: Gene Fredriksen, Security Strategy Consultant It seems that every day there is another story in the news about cyber attacks, hacks and scams hitting large companies and individual users. Due to the current geopolitical situation, the U.S. Department of Homeland...
By: Cody Banks, MVP, Payments and Fraud Strategy, Primax In its early days, Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) – or installment payments – started as a subset of consumers searching for more ways to budget and improve finances, but it was rapidly adopted across the board. BNPL...
By: Brian Scott, SVP and Chief Growth Officer, Primax The extended 2021 holiday shopping season (October through December) saw strong consumer purchasing, even with a substantial surge of COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant. As shared in our Primax Payments...
By: Lou Grilli, Senior Innovation Strategist 2021 had some big news headlines. From the dynamic political environment following the election and ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic to mental health awareness at the Olympics and civilians riding into space on...
By: Gene Fredriksen, Security Strategy Consultant It’s that time of year again when people think about their New Year’s resolutions. These typically involve losing weight, eating healthy and exercising more. While most people do not consider making resolutions around...
By: Gene Fredriksen, Security Strategy Consultant Cybersecurity terms continually make their way into our vocabulary with words like IP address, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the cloud – or more ominous terms like exploit and breach. These words have,...