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Two Cyber Security Investments With a Silver Lining

Banking 2020

It’s clear that cyber threats and identity theft tactics are getting smarter, and that banks need to amp up their security practices to combat this evolution. Financial institutions have the opportunity to make security investments that also increase their ROI. Do your customers know about these other types of fraud?

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Is your bank stopping fraud?

Banking 2020

First the good news – banks in Britain stopped nearly £1 billion in attempted fraud in the first six months of 2015. Banks prevented £7 in every £10 of attempted fraud, according to Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK, which reports that losses on payment cards, online and telephone banking and cheques totalled £325.3

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M-Pesa open API part of wider payments progress

Banking 2020

This change is aimed at promoting innovation and low cost electronic payment solutions while ensuring that security and data protection are not compromised,” said the European Payments Council. Effectively this will open up access across the industry to payment processing services and bank accounts held by customers.

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Small banks' battle to thwart unemployment scams

American Banker

Peoples Bank in Arkansas and Main Street Bank in Massachusetts are getting smarter about spotting suspicious transactions tied to unemployment benefit fraud as well as warning customers what to watch out for.