PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This week, three new cases of accused internal fraud emerged, showcasing the variety of ways employees can steal company cash. The ETA warns that cyber fraud threats are hampering small businesses’ growth opportunities. 41,000: the average payout of a ransomware attack , new data from Coverware revealed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The FBI has once again sounded the alarm on the proliferation of digital fraud like ransomware and the business email compromise (BEC) scam, releasing new stats on the financial damage such criminal activity has caused in the U.S. 3 individuals were arrested in India for an invoice fraud scam , according to CNBCTV reports this week.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Six men were convicted by a Paris court in a $50 million impersonation plot that conned wealthy residents into giving money to help the government with covert operations involving hostages, The New York Times reported on Thursday (March 11). The victims were told that the operation was secret and time-sensitive. million fine.

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FICO

JANUARY 18, 2019

Despite advances in customer due diligence, including the addition of advanced analytics to compliance officers’ toolkits, the scandals of 2018 confirmed that many banks are struggling to bring their operations up to regulators’ standards, to say nothing of best practices. Watch this space for more on financial crime compliance!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

An employee’s accidental use of her corporate card to pay for groceries isn’t a crime, but it does fall under the heading of “ friendly fraud ,” which creates friction for the accounting department. PYMNTS research found that 42 percent of B2B payments were made via paper check in 2019, for example. Tax Time, and Time as a Commodity.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Wirecard said over the weekend it would continue to operate in all but one of its European locations as the court considers the company’s insolvency request. A number of British FinTech firms have suspended services following the FCA’s restrictions on Wirecard, leaving hundreds of thousands of accounts blocked, the news service reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

With government agencies working to combat tax evasion and fraud, eInvoice mandates mean a reduced risk of invoice fraud and greater visibility into trade and transactions. on the benefits of an eInvoicing mandate, noting that it would address the nation’s current tax challenges. On Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The latest AMC/KYC Tracker examines current efforts to stop money laundering, fight fraud and improve customer identity authentication in the financial services space. A 2019 study underscored this point, discovering that even though the AML software market is slated to grow 15.25 The Cost of Compliance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The task traditionally involves the official IRS mileage reimbursement rate (which, for 2019, stands at $0.58 That’s not so say that everyone involved with mileage reimbursement is a crook (though, of course, mileage fraud does persist). Yet, mileage reimbursement is changing — and in a way that can save companies money.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. No matter the reason or method, it seems fraud prevention for retailers continues to get more challenging.

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Lars Markull

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The legislator wants to prevent tax fraud and is hoping that more merchants will record accurate sales numbers, and thus, tax payments will increase. The law actually goes back to the end of 2016, however, the final details were adopted just in June 2019. Some background. The purpose? My opinion.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. In August 2019, the company closed out its Series F funding round from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst at a $35B valuation.

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Lars Markull

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The legislator wants to prevent tax fraud and is hoping that more merchants will record accurate sales numbers, and thus, tax payments will increase. The law actually goes back to the end of 2016, however, the final details were adopted just in June 2019. Some background. The purpose? My opinion.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

So the risk for banks can be very high, which is why so many lenders are realizing the need to dramatically improve the efficacy of compliance operations, using machine learning for AML.”. FICO surveyed 50 executives from financial institutions across the region at its annual FICO Asia Pacific Fraud Forum.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. She effectively ran the bank and its operations. However, it seems unlikely that McConnell didn't orchestrate the fraud. They feared he would discover the fraud. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out.

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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. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. And others disappear forever.

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FICO

JANUARY 19, 2022

From TBML to BNPL to NFTs, 2021 found fraud and financial crime professionals dealing with a plethora of new challenges and criminal schemes. Our five most popular posts of the year dealt with trade-based money laundering, non-fungible tokens, buy now pay later scams, courier scams and good old credit card fraud. Here are excerpts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had roughly 340 execs register to listen live to the two of us banter about the people, processes and tech necessary to do more than simply rebrand what’s typically described as the fraud and risk departments of digital platforms. Pretty much all businesses are self-interested, since most have a duty to their shareholders to make profits.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. Investment banking revenues hit a 13-year-low in 2019. Table of contents.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

In September 2019, Fico and Visma announced their partnership to Offer SaaS Anti Financial Crime Solutions in Western Europe. In 2014, I joined Tonbeller as Head of Sales & Channel Operations and became Management Board member shortly thereafter. billion in 2019. This solutions suite is available on-premises and in the cloud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Consumers worldwide appear increasingly receptive to subscription offerings, with a recent survey of those in 12 countries finding the share of adult respondents who have subscription services rose from 53 percent in 2014 to 71 percent in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

And taking effect with the dawn of 2019, the Chinese government has put in place new initiatives tied to cross-border trade flows done by digital means into several markets. Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

You hear a lot about the new normal and stuff like that, but I really see it as banking at the speed of life,” said CarrieAnne Cormier , senior vice president of Retail Operations and Strategy at Avidia. There was another inconspicuous but remarkable dimension to these trends, however. Preventing Financial Crimes.

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Vitalik Buterin

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

At the end, I’ll include my new picks for hard problems of 2019. Fraud proofs , allowing individual nodes that learn of an error to broadcast its presence to everyone else: [link]. That said, sharded blockchains have still not been seen in live operation. Taking a portion of other kinds of fees (eg. ENS registration).

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

From a transaction-monitoring perspective, the risk and fraud departments should look for rapid transfers between accounts, money mule activity, and transactions with no reasonable explanation for action or source of funds. Domestic terrorists, known as domestic violent extremists (DVEs), operate primarily within the U.S.

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