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Report: Overcoming ID Fraud’s Technology Blind Spots

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A recent study from PwC found that 47 percent of companies had experienced fraud at least once in the past two years, with a grand total of $42 billion in funds stolen over this period of time. There were 223,163 cases of identity theft that year across all generations, with 42 percent of them consisting of bank and credit card fraud.

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Main Street SMBs, Digital AP, GoodRx’s IPO Tops This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on the financial health of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), digital accounts payable (AP), and GoodRx ’s initial public offering (IPO). . Massachusetts-based accounts payable (AP) automation technology firm MineralTree Inc. Report: Hanging Up The Phone On Mobile Remittance Fraud.

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How Banks Are Using AI, ML To Fight Account Opening Fraud

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This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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Can Regulating Wearables Protect Data Privacy?

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In the April Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest security efforts from providers to crack down on fraud, and the emerging use cases where IoT tech can be applied — if consumers are willing to give it a chance. Developments from Around the IoT World. Find the rest of the feature story in the April IoT Tracker.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

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Real-Time Payments Fraud: An FI Infrastructure Issue

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With fraud ramping up, regulators around the globe are starting to take a closer look at everything from typical threats to the use of new technologies, like blockchain. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions. Around the Smarter Payments World.

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Mastercard: Using AI To Cure Healthcare’s $240B Fraud, Waste And Abuse Problem

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Instead, she noted, an estimated $240 billion is going out the door to fraud, waste and abuse (FWA). From those manual reviews, these highly experienced investigators create rules, monitor suspicious activity and collaborate with law enforcement to mitigate fraud in the system, she continued. Modifying the System.

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