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Elder Financial Exploitation During a Pandemic: An Issue We Can’t Forget

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Elderly persons are more susceptible to fraud during crises like the coronavirus pandemic. As the coronavirus pandemic takes a powerful hold on the United States, illicit activity such as cybercrime, check fraud, and other scams are rapidly increasing and is expected to continue throughout this difficult period.

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Top News In Payments: Facebook Expenses Rise 51 Pct; Goldman Targets $125B In Consumer Deposits

PYMNTS

In its Q4 2019 earnings release, Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in expenses for 2019, as the social media platform faces more questions from regulators and policymakers. As fraud evolves, old forms of cybersecurity are not enough to keep up criminals’ increasingly innovative attacks.

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How FIs Counter Online Debit And Credit Card Skimming

PYMNTS

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details.

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The atomization of payments: Part two

Accenture

Nowadays, communication is dominated by e-mail, texts and social media posts in volumes that dwarf those of the past using paper. They may endure for many more years, but as an innovation of the 1960s, they are inefficient, expensive and fraud-prone, unsuited to the atomized payments landscape. Precedent and Implications.

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Crypto Regulation To Tighten Scrutiny On Money Laundering

PYMNTS

Europol has found evidence of money laundering at cryptocurrency ATMs. The BIS remarks came on the heels of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s statements that Facebook’s announcement shows digital currency cannot be unregulated like social media. Beyond Cryptocurrencies.

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Kobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

Banks such as BMO Harris Bank are heavily funding PIN authentication, real-time check scanning and ATMs to meet this demand, but they are discovering an unexpected benefit for bank staff as well. Old forms of cybersecurity are not sufficient to keep pace with fraudsters’ increasingly innovative attacks.

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Data Dive: Buying, Selling And Foreclosing

PYMNTS

MarketWatch , citing comments from Triton’s co-founders, reported that the student-run fund believes the subscription model is actually a solid innovation that isn’t going away anytime soon – and that the low share price offers an opportunity. It also provides support for more than 34,000 ATMs around the U.S.

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