The PAYPLUG LABS project addresses the needs of SMEs who wish to collect payments online,” explains project coordinator Camille Tyan, CEO of French start-up PayPlug. “What we are doing is developing a next-generation payment platform that reduces software integration costs by a factor of five and provides fraud protection thanks to modern statistical algorithms. In addition, new sophisticated technology will allow PayPlug to accurately detect risky vendors and at the same time register legitimate businesses rapidly.”

Read the full story at the Horizon 2020 website.

This is a new publication by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The “World Intellectual Property Indicators 2015” report, provides a wide range of indicators covering the following areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms and plant variety protection. It draws on data from national and regional IP offices, WIPO and the World Bank.

You can read the original announcement and download the report from the WIPO web site here.