PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Reginald Fowler, “an alleged operator behind payment processor Crypto Capital , was charged with wire fraud” on Friday (Feb. This is in addition to charges of bank fraud, an unlicensed money transfer operation and conspiracy. Fraud has become a concern with cryptocurrency around the world.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Fraud trends for financial institutions to watch for in 2023 Financial institutions should not expect a slowdown of any of 2022’s fraud trends. Takeaway 2 A worsening economy increases pressure to commit fraud, provides opportunities to commit fraud, and can be used as an excuse by criminals to rationalize their actions.

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Abrigo

MAY 20, 2022

Fraud on Alert for 2022 A review of SAR data , government agenc y releases, a nd fraud findings found these f raud c oncerns and trends to wat ch in 2022. Takeaway 1 An Abrigo review of SAR data, government agency releases, and fraud findings revealed fraud trends to watch for. Fraud Concerns. Starting Point.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments.

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The Paypers

MAY 2, 2024

The PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) has announced plans to extend its operations to the Middle East, aiming to tackle the growing threat of payment card fraud in the region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Despite near universal agreement that AI holds the key to decoding numerous medical mysteries, at present one of its most valuable uses is fighting fraud, waste and abuse — FWA in the industry parlance — which threatens to worsen in the near term due to coronavirus-related cybercrime. Fraud, Waste and Abuse (FWA).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Retailers focused on combating fraud have credit cards in the cross-hairs of their efforts. But ramping up the war on card fraud can introduce a new risk to companies: false positives. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. The False Positive Threat.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

As Wirecard AG’s global operations close following its bankruptcy filing, the German payment company has agreed to sell what’s left, the Financial Times reported. In addition, he noted that the sale of some of the company’s operations in Britain and North America could be announced soon. billion euros ($2.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Gareth David Long, a 41-year-old Las Vegas resident, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for fraud for stealing money from victims’ accounts, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Long pled guilty in November of 2019 to a scheme where he committed wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Those new avenues of fraud have leveraged hallmarks of the current pandemic — fears over public health and concerns about stimulus checks issued by the government — to snare unwitting victims. . . According to some estimates, as many as 22 percent of Americans have been impacted by COVID-related fraud. . .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Venmo , the digital money transfer service owned by PayPal , suffered payments fraud earlier in 2018 that played a role in the company posting losses that were higher than forecasted for the first quarter of this year. The transaction loss rate includes losses due to fraudulent charges.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Not so long ago, payments cyber fraud was done primarily by brute force, through guessing passwords and usernames — a scattershot approach akin to trial and error, conducted by lone individuals or small groups. Fraud is an industry for the crooks now. Lerdal pointed to P2P payments and eCommerce as key areas of attack.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. Taking A Local Approach To Fighting Money Laundering, Fraud Worldwide. Payment processing providers need to ensure they do not accidentally onboard malicious merchants that would abuse their services for laundering money.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Apps with a possible security flaw, a malware phishing scheme and possibly, payments fraud, all done in the blink of an eye? In reference to payments, a hacker could conceivably change an invoice to help divert funds into different accounts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

As faster and real-time payment schemes achieve ubiquity in more markets around the globe, speed is increasingly becoming the standard for payers of all kinds. This new reality isn’t without its challenges for financial services providers, however, with security and fraud mitigation among the largest concerns.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The growth in digital transactions is also spurring a boost in friendly fraud, which occurs when legitimate customers either knowingly or unwittingly claim that they did not make legitimate purchases and seek reimbursement for them. It also analyzes how focusing on the customer experience can help prevent such fraud in the first place.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Payments messaging technology provider SWIFT recently opened up its Know Your Customer (KYC) platform, the KYC Registry , directly to corporates. SWIFT’s decision to open up the registry also reflects the growing threat of fraud in corporate payments. Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Australia and South Africa.

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Abrigo

MARCH 4, 2022

Synthetic ID fraud is growing quickly and hurts FIs and customers Knowing the schemes associated with synthetic identity fraud and how criminals avoid detection can help minimize losses. Takeaway 1 Synthetic identity fraud is a growing form of identity theft in which an individual is impersonated by using stolen information.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Real-time payments, real-time risk. As consumers embrace real-time transactions, financial institutions (FIs) must recalibrate their fraud-fighting strategies. The real-time movement of money,” he told PYMNTS, “has implications on your ability to manage losses — and you have to make sure you are keeping pace with new fraud trends.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It can also serve as a powerful tool in restaurants’ fight against fraud, which is becoming an increasingly prevalent issue as bad actors target the flood of customers using digital channels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Payment protection platform Verifi has partnered with digital fraud protection firm Kount Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. Unlike the crypto markets, Wingert said the banking and payments industries continue to be slow to adapt to the challenges of KYC and fraud prevention. Complex Compliance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

TSB is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink to roll out a solution to help prevent fraud and payment mix-ups, Vocalink announced in a press release on Thursday (Sept. The solution will help people combat payment deception as well as avoid mistakes like sending funds to the wrong account. in 2018 totaling £354.3

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Payments Source

MARCH 3, 2020

Operational efficiency has long been the key to selling AP automation, but a growing payment fraud problem and new risk exposures are giving businesses new reasons to digitize payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Cross-border trade and payments have gotten far easier in recent years, and that’s a beautiful thing for recovering companies seeking new territories and customers. Noting that some countries are able to operate more normally now than the U.S., The world economy won’t wait for the U.S. to recover.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

When it comes to fraud threats, no company — large or small — is immune. PYMNTS breaks down the numbers of the latest in B2B fraud below. According to reports, the individual had access to the business’s bank accounts, allowing her to make tax payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So much of the focus on fraud these days involves exploiting holes in software, hacking into systems to steal personal information and payment data, or otherwise using digital methods in heists. But recent news involving “death-spiral financing” reminds us that fraud is still conducted in other, relatively old-fashioned ways.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Commerzbank has told lawyers that the bank was a victim of fraud in the ongoing Wirecard case, Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. Commerzbank, like many others, was a victim of an unimaginable fraud of a huge dimension,” he said, according to Reuters. The lender was "deceived" by the executives and auditors involved, Commerzbank said.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 17, 2021

More than half of consumers have become more concerned about fraud since Covid-19 Risk Management Technology Cyberfraud/ID Theft Operational Risk Feature Feature3 Mobile Tech Management Online Cards Security Checks/Remote Deposit Capture Payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Previously serving as its executive vice president of operations, Schroeder steps in for Judith McGuire, who is now serving in an executive role with PULSE’s parent company, Discover Financial Services. Jim Lerdal will take over the position of executive vice president of operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It cannot be overstated how integral non-cash payments are to the global economy, with the United States processing more than 174.2 billion of these payments in 2018 alone for a total of $97.04 Cash payments are quickly falling to the wayside, with only 26 percent of all U.S. Digital payments are fraught with obstacles, however.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Mari Anne Bayliss , senior director of solution management at CyberSource , told Karen Webster that simply relying on machine learning as a weapon against fraud is not enough — not in an age where managing fraud risk during the great digital shift (and unprecedented transaction volumes) is so challenging. .

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. New account fraud.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Paygilant, the frictionless mobile payments fraud detection company, announced Tuesday (April 4) it was able to show how Citi was able to reduce operational costs associated with mobile wallet transactions. With mobile wallet transactions worldwide expected to exceed $1.5 This is extremely valuable to Citi,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud. For more on these and other digital fraud news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. He also cited “banks’ aversion to taking on risk and fraud” in a proactive manner that leads them to create and promote new card offerings. And governments have an incentive to foster growth in debit payments because they want to collect tax revenue on cash transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As well, successful criminals know that their targets are often complex systems — and complex systems offer many opportunities for financial fraud and massive theft. Welcome to the world of advertising fraud. Even so, Xie said, better cooperation could help prevent more of the particular type of fraud. Delayed Response.

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