An improved financial terminal automatically reconfigures into different financial processing terminal types. In one embodiment, the terminal comprises a housing; a card reader configured to accept at least a portion of a card having an integrated circuit; at least one display; at least one processor; and at least one memory configured to store machine readable code, the machine readable code comprising a first kernel corresponding to a first transaction type and a second kernel corresponding to a second transaction type.

Methods and systems are provided for verifying the possession of a card, such as a credit card or a debit card, by a card user. Possession of the card can be verified, for example, when a purchase transaction, such as a telephone purchase transaction or an online purchase transaction, is attempted with the card and the purchase transaction is denied due to suspected account take over. Possession of the card can be verified by detecting the present of the card with a mobile device of the user, such as a smart phone. For example, possession of the card can be verified by near field communication (NFC) between the card and the mobile device, wherein the communication is sufficient to adequately determine the presence of the card.

Methods and systems are provided for verifying the possession of a card, such as a credit card or a debit card, by a card user. Possession of the card can be verified, for example, when a purchase transaction, such as a telephone purchase transaction or an online purchase transaction, is attempted with the card and the purchase transaction is denied due to suspected account take over. Possession of the card can be verified by detecting the present of the card with a mobile device of the user, such as a smart phone. For example, possession of the card can be verified by near field communication (NFC) between the card and the mobile device, wherein the communication is sufficient to adequately determine the presence of the card.

A device may receive first information related to a transaction. The device may identify a first device from which to receive an image of a receipt related to the transaction. The device may provide, to the first device, a notification to cause the first device to perform a set of actions including activating a camera associated with the first device to capture the image of the receipt, or providing, for display, an instruction related to capturing the image of the receipt associated with the transaction. The device may receive, from the first device, the image of the receipt. The device may process the image of the receipt to perform an analysis of the transaction. The device may perform an action related to the transaction based on a result of processing the image of the receipt.

A method for preventing duplicate processing of a payment transaction includes: generating a first data structure with a first predetermined time interval and generating a second data structure with a second predetermined time interval. A first overlap region and second overlap region of the first and second predetermined time interval are defined by a same time interval. The method includes receiving first transaction data associated with a first payment transaction, receiving second transaction data associated with a second payment transaction, and determining based on a first transaction ID and a second transaction ID, that the second payment transaction is a duplicate of the first payment transaction. A computer program product and system for preventing duplicate processing of a payment transaction are also disclosed.

A transaction device is described. The device comprises storage configured to store a first data record comprising first value data and a unique identifier associated with one other device; communications circuitry configured to receive an identifier and second value data from a device; and control circuitry configured to compare the received identifier with the unique identifier and in the event of a positive comparison, the control circuitry is further configured to update the stored first value data in accordance with the exchanged second value data.

Systems and methods for facilitating a disbursement of funds to a payee are provided. The methods include receiving a payment request from a payor; generating a code, such as barcode, a Quick Response (QR) code, a Near Field Communication (NFC) code, or a textual string, that corresponds to the received payment request; transmitting the generated code to the payee; validating the code when the code is entered into a payment disbursement machine, such as an automated teller machine; and disbursing at least one of the funds and a payment voucher via the payment disbursement machine.

A computer software application (APP) is programmed into a smartphone. The smartphone allows a user to access various concessions and facilitate ordering items such as food, beverages, souvenirs, and memorabilia. The APP allows the user to input their seat location so the vendor can locate the user to deliver what has been ordered. The APP includes information concerning the user. The concessionaires all have a communication device allowing them to receive orders from users and to fulfill them.

There is provided a method, comprising: extracting user feature profiles for users of a social network, each feature profile being structured and including user features extracted from unstructured user generated text, indications of participation in groups, and structured user profiles, training a clustering-component of a model to cluster the feature profiles, training a matching-component of the model to compute a distance score indicative of statistical similarity between a feature profile of a target user and features profiles of other users of a same cluster, using a training dataset of pairs of feature profiles extracted from common clusters, each pair assigned a distance score label, providing the model for: identifying a certain cluster of a certain user, and computing distance scores between the feature profile of the certain user and other feature profiles of other users of the certain cluster for selecting one user for establishment of a communication session.

A financial institution computing system associated with a financial institution includes an account management circuit. The account management circuit is configured to receive, by the network interface, a customer request to establish a checking account at the financial institution, create first and second checking accounts for the customer, the first checking account having a payment card associated therewith, the second checking account not having any payment cards associated therewith, receive, by the network interface, information regarding a funding amount for the first and second payment accounts, receive, by the network interface, information regarding a first expense of the customer, and fund the second account with a first portion of the funding amount based on the information regarding the first expense.