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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations. Spring may seem far away, but U.S.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

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Compliance failures are prevalent worldwide: Approximately $26 billion worth of fines were levied against banks for AML, KYC and sanctions noncompliance between 2008 and 2018. Regulators are increasingly taking note of such problems, with some seeking to improve AML and anti-tax evasion efforts by prohibiting anonymous crypto transactions.

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Walgreens Fights Promotion Abuse With Digital Tracking

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Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Developments From The World Of Digital Fraud.

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Ensuring AML Programs Minimize Personal Liability

Abrigo

Adequately staffed and risk-focused AML resources with good documentation are critical. Adequate, risk-focused AML resources are critical. Get adequate resources. You must find a way to get the resources, and I think that message is coming around loud and clear these days.” Focus BSA/AML resources on risk.

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How to Protect Your Children from Identity Fraud

FICO

Child identity fraud is an alarmingly large and growing problem. . A 2018 report released by Javelin Strategy & Research found that more than one million children were victims of identity fraud in 2017. As I’ve blogged about previously, synthetic identity fraud is rampant , and fraudsters are growing ever-more sophisticated.

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State Employees In Mississippi Targets Of Direct Deposit Scam

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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that ahead of tax season, preparers and other victims received requests to change direct deposit activity. News comes this week from Mississippi that state workers are being targeted by similar fraud attempts. The IRS cited “spoofed” addresses that seemed official.

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FinCEN identifies AML/CFT “priorities” for financial institutions

CFPB Monitor

The Priorities, listed according to FinCEN “[i]n no particular order,” are as follows: Corruption; Cybercrime; Domestic and international terrorist financing; Fraud; Transnational criminal organizations; Drug trafficking organizations; Human trafficking and human smuggling; and. The Priorities and Their Utility. Proliferation financing.