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JUNE 29, 2020

Open banking is one of the most significant emerging trends in the financial industry, allowing banks and FinTechs to share financial data in a quick, easy and secure manner across a network of platforms. Security Risks Facing Open Banking. Securing Open Banking Systems.

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MAY 12, 2020

An internal investigation into alleged fraud at Luckin Coffee Inc. In addition, the company has placed six other employees on suspension or leave due to involvement in or knowledge of the fraud. Cao has served as senior vice president in charge of store operations and customer service since 2018.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

PSCU , which is billed as the nation's premier credit union service organization (CUSO), has announced its new Enhanced Fraud Services system, which the company said “has helped 10 early adopter credit unions combat fraud of all types, ranging from first-party chargeback fraud to identifying card information being sold on the dark web.”.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What’s clear is that fraud decisioning solutions have never been more necessary, as cybercrime enters a new phase of sophistication, diabolical creativity and global scale. Bottom line: Fraud losses are expected to hit $48 billion annually by 2023 – more than double the 2018 losses. Sealing It.

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MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. Unfortunately, most banks don’t gather fraud data across payment channels or track “pre-crime events.”

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed an emergency asset freeze against Virgil Capital and its affiliated companies after charging the firm and its CEO, Stefan Qin , with fraud related to Virgil Sigma Fund LP, the company’s cryptocurrency trading fund, according to a press release. In other news, the U.S.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

A 2018 survey found that 40 percent of American financial institution (FI) customers in this age bracket reported debit cards as their go-to payment instruments, while 36 percent favored credit cards. These organizations need to fend off anything threatening, combatting both popular and emerging debit fraud attack methods.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

In comments reported earlier this week, cyber insurance security responder Tom Bennett of CFC Underwriting told The Financial Times that that claims surged in June and July. The threat actors realized they can amplify their impact by targeting specific companies such as managed service providers,” said Bennett. Corporate Wire Fraud.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Venmo users alone lost more than $40 million in 2018. Meeting this fraud threat will require in-depth knowledge of fraudsters’ techniques and advanced technology and customer vigilance, according to Jamie Armistead , vice president and business line leader for banking app Zelle. “We The Scams And Frauds Facing P2p Payment Apps.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. Facebook’s 2018 regarding the stewardship of user data and privacy was one it would like to soon forget. Department Store Hacks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

The technology’s significance cannot be ignored, as a 2018 survey found that each company manages an average of 363 APIs. Each API an organization leverages gives hackers a new opportunity through which to exploit or infiltrate its network and systems — unless that API is properly secured.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Elder financial exploitation and elder fraud are rising at an alarming rate as they continue to be serious crimes in the United States. An increase in financial crime and fraud against the elderly is expected to continue to climb as the baby boom population (those born before 1964) age. The under-reported and growing crime.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Dating websites and apps in the Netherlands have had a spate of this type of fraud in recent years, with victims handing over $4.1 Online dating is lousy with, well, louses, as we learn from the February 2020 Digital Fraud Tracker® , a DataVisor collaboration. The market for anti-fraud software “… was valued at USD 13.59

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

In one major example in 2018, Frank Krasovec, the chairman of Dash Brands, owner of Domino’s Pizza franchises in China, lost $450,000 when a fraudster intercepted his email. Krasovec is now suing the Dallas, Texas bank, maintaining that PlainsCapital didn’t have anti-fraud protocols in place. billion in 2018. Close to $1.8

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MAY 4, 2020

Advances in technology are making consumer transactions seemingly more secure, but cybercriminals are still finding sophisticated ways to beat systems and commit financial fraud. A 2018 study on payment fraud mitigation reported that 75 percent of financial institutions (FIs) experienced fraud losses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

An Israeli startup that creates anti-fraud services that deal with online transactions wants to raise $200 million for expansion, according to a report in Bloomberg. Fraud is becoming an increasingly more common problem in the eCommerce sector, and is estimated to cost merchants about $130 billion over the next five years. “At

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MAY 27, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) rose 347 percent from 2018 to 2019 — a problem that will only worsen if financial institutions (FIs) are not vigilant. The May FI Fraud Decisioning Playbook examines the issue of omnichannel fraud and the strategies that banks and CUs are using to detect and thwart it.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Additionally, according to the company’s latest figures , its users made 433 million transactions valued at $119 billion during 2018 — up from 247 million transactions valued at $75 billion a year earlier. First, we want the payment to be as secure as possible with risk mitigation. Educating Educators On P2P Security.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But cybercriminals — as the January 2020 edition of the PYMNTS Digital Fraud Tracker points out — have found municipalities, and have been enthusiastically moving through them as they’ve discovered municipal employees, unused to being targeted, make an excellent target for phishing attacks. Cybercrime Comes To Call In Cities Large And Small.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

18) that it achieved 342 percent sales growth in 2018 compared with 2017 and that it has a four-year growth rate of 3,857 percent. In a press release, Onfido said 2018 was a landmark year for the company which not only enjoyed strong growth but named key members to its senior team and won accolades from within the industry.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Startup Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as it did in the previous year. Content marketing manager Chad Koskie broke it down by the numbers: Against the backdrop of $180 billion in transactions running through the system, $1.8 million in potential fraud was prevented, compared to last year’s $1 billion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

It’s no surprise that payments fraud is on the rise. Juniper Research , for example, has estimated that retailers will lose as much as $130 billion in card-not-present (CNP) fraud through 2023 — as tech gets more complex and transactions are done across borders. Then again, the fraud may be a bit more low-tech and on-site.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For purposes of this analogy, the “basement” into which bad mice are creeping is most likely your legacy payroll/expense management software and its possibly compromised connections. While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fraudsters have been increasingly focused on mobile services, with one-third of all fraud attacks worldwide reportedly targeting mobile during the first half of 2018 — a 24 percent year-over-year increase. STACK’s mobile app provides budget management and spending accounts, among other services. Facing Future Fraud.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Gox hack that saw $473 million in bitcoin disappear, the Bitfinex hack in which $72 million in value was lost overnight and the reigning champion crypto hack, the January 2018 Coincheck hack that saw $530 million in cryptocurrency go missing. The big, and under-discussed threat, he said, is the approximately $2.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

A new report has revealed that invoice fraud cost U.K. Invoice fraud happens when criminals pose as a regular supplier and make a request for their bank account information to be changed, usually via email. Invoice fraud could happen to businesses of all sizes. Even tech giants can be hit with invoice fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PULSE , the debit/ATM network that operates as a Discover Financial Services company, said in a press release that it has adopted the FICO Falcon Platform to bring new fraud detection services to its network of more than 4,100 debit issuers. The FICO platform serves as the foundation of the DebitProtect fraud detection service, said PULSE.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

billion due to cyberattacks , fraud, terrorism and other risk factors, according to new research by insurance broker Gallagher. Nearly one-quarter of SMBs surveyed said they were affected by some kind of crisis event in 2018, a 5 percent increase from the prior year. Small businesses in the U.K. lost an estimated $10.74

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Take the issue of retail security as one example. As the new PYMNTS Merchant Fraud Decisioning Playbook shows, fraudsters are starting off the new decade armed with the stolen data and credentials of millions of global consumers, and they are already putting that data to use. Retail Trust and AI.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

The 2018 holiday season has barely ended and it’s a good bet that retailers and payments players have yet to identify all the fraud that took place. The rest of the year will bring other such attacks, and no doubt new attacks barely imagined even by veteran fraud-prevention experts. Criminal Rings. Criminal Patience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. But those gains come with fresh concerns about digital security.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Fraud takes many forms, from account takeover attacks to identity theft. But ad fraud might be one of the most insidious types. Some estimates range as high as $42 billion, because ad fraud is tricky to measure. Types of Ad Fraud.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

This increasingly sophisticated group poses a growing and costly headache to those who value the model, forcing businesses to spend billions on fraud-fighting technologies. Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. million fraud reports in 2018, resulting in $1.48 trillion a year.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 18, 2018

Some important financial technologies are changing the way the world is doing business and that change is now reaching the securities industry. Below are just a few of the sessions surrounding IBM Banking and Financial technologies you won’t want to miss at SIFMA 2018. There will also be many great panel discussions at SIFMA 2018.

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APRIL 24, 2020

There is a great deal of economic uncertainty in the world today, as many banking managers and executives are acutely aware. These circumstances have brought to the fore what has long been a central concern for lenders: assessing and managing credit risk. percent in 2018, when PYMNTS conducted a similar study, to 9.3

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MARCH 4, 2020

Companies each made an average of 363 APIs available publicly in 2018, for example. APIs can become major targets for hackers and fraudsters, however, and businesses need to step up their API security in response. Deep Dive: Confronting APIs’ Authentication, DDoS Security Threats. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

percent increase from 2018. Growing attack-related expenses force businesses to remain vigilant against emerging threats, including phishing and other types of fraud that their own employees may willingly or unwillingly perpetuate. Ensuring Secure Workplace Practices. million in 2019 — a 1.5 Fighting the Phishers.

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