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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. Online U.S.

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 Ransomware Gains Traction, UK BEC Fraud Spikes

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Gary Robinson, who serves as head of DCPCU, said that online conduits are gaining favor from fraudsters to further their schemes. Gary Robinson, who serves as head of DCPCU, said that online conduits are gaining favor from fraudsters to further their schemes. “We Fraud that was in turn prevented by the unit amounted to as much as $8.2

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FBI Docs Reveal ISIS Funneled Money Into US Through Fake eBay Transactions

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FBI documents have revealed a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money to an alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. The affidavit indicates that several other alleged operatives had been arrested in Britain and Bangladesh. through fake eBay transactions.

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Boosting Access To Financial Services In Brazil

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As fraudsters get more brazen and inventive in the digital information ecosystem, many companies are realizing they can’t thwart these bad actors on their own, and must instead turn to new partnerships in their fight against fraud. A recent partnership in India aims to add further biometric security to the nation’s Aadhaar system.

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Now is the time to prepare for the FedNow launch

Independent Banker

This operating model—iterative and parallel testing and development—ensures an agile approach and strong collaboration as the Federal Reserve and pilot organizations jointly prepare our solutions for launch.”. We actually, as a result of COVID, had bumped up our adoption of a new online banking platform. Tina Giorgio, iCBA.

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Card Safeguard

Independent Banker

Tokenization is used today in banking payments primarily to safeguard cardholders for online or mobile-device purchases, including contactless purchases at some point-of-sale merchant locations. Elizabeth Judd is a freelance financial writer in Maryland. The process is seamless for the cardholder, the issuing bank and the merchant.”.

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The community bank’s complete guide to building trust

Independent Banker

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. With much banking moving online or to smartphones, interactions with customers can be less frequent. Illustration by Ahoy There. By Ed Avis & Elizabeth Judd.

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