PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) came out with some scary statistics this month: B2B payments fraud is not only on the rise, but at its highest levels ever since the AFP began recording this information. much of the data offers a pessimistic outlook on how companies are at risk for payments fraud. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

“The misconduct at Wells Fargo was widespread across the bank and at every level of management – impacting both customers and investors who were misled,” Attorney General Barbara D. In fact, during Congressional testimony, Wells Fargo’s former CEO admitted that he became aware of widespread fraud by the company’s employees in 2013.

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ZootBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There are more types of financial fraud to manage than ever before—debit and credit card, check, online banking, electronic, ACH—the list goes on. An example is cross-channel or multi-faceted fraud, where information is gained in one channel and used to commit fraud in another, making it even more challenging to combat.

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BankBazaar

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Financial transactions on BankBazaar have always been safe and secure. Since its inception, BankBazaar has consistently made efforts to create a robust, secure and glitch-free platform that will enable its users to carry out transactions and interactions seamlessly, minus the fear of losing crucial data and identity theft.

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Abrigo

MARCH 29, 2017

During the webinar, McLaughlin explained that the two biggest challenges for audit firms lie within the tension of managing risk while creating more efficiency during the audit process. The goal is to do less work while managing an appropriate level of risk. The goal is to do less work while managing an appropriate level of risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

A hundred thousand data breaches after the great Target breach of late 2013, and the world has more or less gotten used to hackers getting into places they ought not be, and making off with money or data that they ought not have. And the forms these frauds appear in is varied.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 15, 2014

My heart goes out to the hard working professionals who run the Treasury Services or “Cash Management” divisions at community banks. Yet for more than a decade, cash management professionals have shown their resiliency. But lately, there are deeper lines and fatigued expressions on the faces of cash management professionals.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

SM: When this happened, both the Bangladesh Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had security lapses that enabled the theft. Bangladesh’s Central Bank should have employed better perimeter security and data analytics to monitor for abnormal behavior from malware/spyware on their network.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Online banking electronic payments fraud is on the rise, as fraudsters explore security gaps in the emerging banking channels. For instance, data released by Financial Fraud Action UK , shows that UK online banking fraud losses increased by 38% in 2014 from 2013, and by 64% in 2015 from 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

According to recent PYMNTS research , illicit and counterfeit goods make up a multibillion-dollar fraud industry, with merchants suffering $323 billion in total losses from counterfeit products in 2017. The value of fake and counterfeit products went from $461 billion in 2013 to $509 billion in 2016. percent in 2013.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

Falkowski was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison for being the brains behind a $1 million fraud scam. To protect himself, he created faulty invoices to trick QVC into paying for his fraud. The fraud happened from 2008 until he was fired in 2013, noted the report. QVC former director James D.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

We detected this fraud against our vendor management team and promptly alerted the authorities,” a Google spokesperson said. “We The DoJ has since charged Rimašauskas with one count of money wire fraud, three counts of money laundering and one count of aggravated identity theft. BEC fraud has been on the rise across the globe.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

According to recent PYMNTS research , illicit and counterfeit goods make up a multibillion-dollar fraud industry, with merchants suffering $323 billion in total losses from counterfeit products in 2017. The value of fake and counterfeit products went from $461 billion in 2013 to $509 billion in 2016. percent in 2013.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But just as it was a disruptive force when it emerged in the mid-19th century, today the wire has secured a bit of attention as players like SWIFT move to promote faster, more efficient cross-border transfers. billion via business wire fraud between October 2013 and December 2016, the FBI calculated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

An international coalition of pension funds, government entities and asset managers is suing Danske Bank over a far-reaching money-laundering scheme tied to Russia, and its subsequent cover-up. Securities and Exchange Commission also said it was opening a probe last month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

FT reports that AconaOnline was purchased by DPO in 2013 by German businessman and Wirecard exec Dietmar Knöchelmann and others. Knöchelmann was convicted in Israel for crimes unrelated to DPO, FT writes, along with another individual who became a minority shareholder in DPO years before his conviction, and who now still holds 1.24

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Tech and Finance

JUNE 10, 2019

Department of Homeland Security last week released an update to its list of 16 critical infrastructures, which included financial services such as payments and clearing and settlement of securities. Valerie Abend, managing director, Accenture Security, said the department took a comprehensive view of security. “It

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud. Some companies just push their luck a little too far. Total Funding: $1.1B.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Ng is also charged with conspiring to violate the FCPA by circumventing the internal accounting controls of a major New York-headquartered financial institution, which underwrote more than $6 billion in bonds issued by 1MDB in three separate bond offerings in 2012 and 2013, while Ng was employed at the financial institution as a managing director.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Using Data to Acquire, Engage, and Retain Banking Customers,” and “Customer Identity: Balancing Security and Seamless Banking Experiences.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

In a smattering of individual instances of fraud: In Canada, SaskEnergy said that it fired an employee amid allegations that the unnamed worker had misappropriated a fuel card, racking up $30,000 in charges between 2004 and 2019. In Canada – and in the US, too. The maneuver is also known as “cookie jar” accounting.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Researchers champion digital payments as a way to combat the security, speed and efficiency problems associated with paper checks. Simply put: Crooks love checks,” Mike Vigue, VP of product strategy, cyberfraud and risk management at B2B payments company Bottomline Technologies, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The suit was filed by San Francisco-based Partner Fund Management in Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday October 10. The suit was filed by San Francisco-based Partner Fund Management in Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday October 10. Theranos, a U.S. million in February 2014.

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Abrigo

MARCH 23, 2017

Either way, with financial statement fraud on the rise, we need to strengthen our skepticism…not weaken it. In fact a report by Cornerstone Research entitled, “Accounting Class Action Filings and Settlements - 2014 Review and Analysis " , shows allegations that accounting fraud surged 47 percent in securities class-action lawsuits over 2013.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In the Middle East , RAK Bank has said it will offer Sage accounting software to business banking customers, in an agreement that helps those firms manage value-added tax (VAT) compliance mandates. Using technology would cut costs that come in tandem with anti-fraud efforts. That number now stands at 8,600 individuals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, as Karen Webster noted, perhaps the most surprising outcome of the investigation is just how long this money laundering debacle managed to carry on. The goal going forward, he told Webster, is “thinking AI-based systems,” designed to bring down the false-positives and spot emerging fraud patterns in real time.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2016

According to statistics from the Association of Financial Professionals, 50 percent of companies were still using paper checks as of 2013. The survey gathered data from 120 respondents, whose titles included “AP manager, controller, chief financial officer, finance executive, accounting director and accountant.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

Europol contended that the group has been operating since 2013 and has members in 40 countries around the globe. The attackers targeted around 100 financial institutions (FIs), sending malware-infected emails to bank employees to access their networks and servers to engage in the fraud. Asia and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

billion in securities from Russia were processed through the Estonian financial system. That warning came in 2013. Their identities were hidden behind a series of offshore management firms based in the Marshall Islands and the Seychelles,” the USA TODAY noted. In 2012, more than €7.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

” Fraud and chargebacks were identified as the top concerns of high-risk merchants surveyed by merchant services account provider Instabill, which also services high-risk merchants. The firm published a survey last month that found card-not-present fraud and chargeback management were cited by 61 percent of respondents.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

In 2013, new limits were set on the amount merchants were legally allowed to charge customers for paying by credit or debit card, and come 2018, that amount will be slashed to zero. The Rise of CNP Fraud. Forty-three countries, 75 airlines and eight online travel agencies were involved in the fraud. Consumer Protection.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

In a similar fashion, SecurityScorecard continuously surveys, analyzes and indexes vulnerabilities across the entire internet to determine the security posture for every organization worldwide,” Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard, explained.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to people familiar with the case, the scheme managed to nab roughly $23 million from Google in 2013 and around $98 million from Facebook in 2015. Both companies identified themselves as victims in the scam. They said they had recovered their funds and were cooperating with law enforcement, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

Those counts included wire fraud and intentional damage to a protected computer. Outrageous or not, prosecutors managed to convince a jury that Seleznev was behind the theft and resale of over 2.9 The son of a Russian parliament member, Seleznev was found guilty on 38 of 40 charges brought against him. 2009 to Oct.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 13, 2015

According to Palm Springs FCU President & CEO Debbi Pitigliano, the drive was provided to the NCUA and contained members’ personal information, including names, addresses and social security numbers. Target’s late 2013 breach is among the largest in recent memory, affecting over 70 million individuals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But more remarkable than the fact that Yahoo actually managed to compromise the data of 21 percent of the planet is the fact that this information barely registered with the vast majority of people. The simple answer: December 19, 2013 happened. What happened? What came next?

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