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Understanding 1st-party fraud: Risks and resolutions

Abrigo

How financial institutions can prevent losses from 1st-party fraud Learn strong approaches to identifying, preventing, and detecting 1st-party fraud that will keep your AML program on top of fraud trends. Takeaway 3 Prevention and detection best practices can curb hard dollar 1st-party fraud losses while protecting clients.

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How Zelle Protects Users Against Scams And Frauds With AI, Analytics

PYMNTS

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 We split out scams and frauds,” he explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

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Analytics Co RELX Buys Anti-Fraud Startup Emailage For $480M

PYMNTS

RELX will acquire Arizona-based Emailage for $480 million in the former’s push to establish a footprint in the fraud prevention market, according to Financial Times (FT). Last month, the company spent $375 million to buy San Diego-based ID Analytics. In addition, RELX made pre-tax profits of £2.15 billion in 2018.

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Tax Compliance; Enhancements with Analytics

FICO

Tax agencies have a limited amount of resources to pursue tax compliance activities (collections and audit). While the selection process typically utilizes available data, cases are primarily selected based on experience, intuition and business rules, rather than using predictive, mathematically generated analytical models.

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Technology Enabled Data Analytics: Friend or Foe?

Abrigo

With the increased availability of useful data, analytical review procedures are becoming more important during the audit process. For example, greater emphasis on analytics encourages and almost demands that the auditor improve the quality of their professional judgment and skepticism. A WAY TO OVERCOME BIAS IN THE AUDIT PROCESS.

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What are analytical procedures and their benefits?

Abrigo

Analytical procedures are beginning to become more prevalent in the audit world. According to the AICPA, analytical procedures consist of reviewing financial information by studying plausible relationships between data and evaluating it for consistency. Are there indications of potential fraud? By Jackie McLaughlin, CPA.

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KeyBank On Fighting APP Fraud During The COVID-19 Pandemic

PYMNTS

Fraud targeting digital banking users has been around as long as digital banking itself, but it has recently become more prevalent. The pandemic is exacerbating the problem, with a study finding that 22 percent of Americans were the targets of pandemic-related fraud attempts as of March. APP fraud is not a new occurrence.

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