Author: tassatdotcom

Security Awareness Training Isn’t Working – How Can We Improve It?

Security awareness training isn’t working to the level it needs to. It doesn’t protect all industries and all people all the time. Social engineering, however, is getting better. The obvious questions are, why doesn’t awareness training work, and how can we improve it? First, we should separate awareness training from its primary focus: phishing. Phishing […]

PayPod: Bringing Banks into the Digital Future with Glendy Kam of Tassat

Are you interested in learning about decentralized payment solutions for banks? In this episode of PayPod, host Jacob Hollabaugh sits down with Glendy Kam of Tassat to discuss the benefits of implementing private, permissioned blockchain technology in the banking industry. Tassat Group, Inc. is the leading provider of private blockchain-based, real-time solutions for commercial banks. Watch this […]

CISO Conversations: Three Leading CISOs From the Payment Industry

SecurityWeek talks to leading Chief Information Security Officers in the payments industry about their role and experience as CISOs. In this edition, we talk to Rinki Sethi (Bill.com); Matthew Donnelly (FreedomPay), and Al Berg (Tassat). Becoming a CISO Current senior CISOs have rarely followed a traditional career path: that is, seeing the end target and plotting […]

FedNow brings innovation, fraud concerns, and conspiracy theories

Government-backed initiatives for real-time payments in the U.S. have lagged behind the rest of the world. However, the long-awaited FedNow is due to launch in a matter of weeks. While the launch is merely the first step towards a fully launched federally developed real-time payments system, it is long overdue. The private sector has carried […]

The Fintech Coffee Break – Kevin Greene, Tassat

Isabelle Castro sits down with Tassat CEO and Chairman Kevin Greene for Fintech Nexus’ podcast, Fintech Coffee Break. Hi Guys, welcome to the Fintech Coffee Break, I’m your host Isabelle Castro. This week we have a recording from my trip to New York in May, where I sat down with Kevin Greene from Tassat. Tassat provides […]

Tassat goes multicurrency for bank blockchain payments

This week Tassat Group announced its B2B digital payment solution is going multi currency in June. In addition to existing U.S. Dollar payments that have reached $1.3 trillion on its permissioned blockchains, from June the platform will support Euro, Yen, Pounds and Canadian dollars, with more planned. The solution has been adopted by a handful of regional […]

Tassat® Group, Inc. Announces Multi-Currency Offering

Leading B2B payments provider to offer capabilities for banks to hold and manage multiple fiat currencies within a single wallet May 23, 2023 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tassat® Group, Inc., the leading provider of real-time digital payments solutions for commercial banks and their business-to-business (B2B) clients, today announced a new multiple fiat […]

Why Blockchain Is Redefining Payments for Midsize, Community Banks

In the weeks following Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall, the 25 largest U.S. banks experienced a $120 billion increase in deposits, according to the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, the nation’s midsize and community banks saw deposits fall by over $108 billion during the same time period. This represented the largest weekly decline of non-megabank deposits in history […]

Tassat delivers blockchain-based, real-time B2B payments

Private permissioned blockchains are a key feature of Tassat’s B2B payments and financial services for banks. Best of all, chief information security officer Al Berg said they are compliant while easily operating within U.S. regulations. Tassat’s Digital Interbank Network is the world’s first blockchain-based, real-time payments network operating entirely within the existing regulatory framework of the American banking system. […]