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Banks Turn To 3D Secure 2.0 To Fight Fraud

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As fraudsters continue to chip away at profits and threaten firms’ financial stability, security providers and banks alike are investing in solutions compliant with 3D Secure (3DS), protocols, which protect both consumers and the companies serving them. 3DS was initially introduced in 2001, and has continued to evolve over the past 17 years.

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Ghosts Of Payments Fraud Past: Enron CEO Skilling Freed From Custody

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As widely reported, Skilling helmed the energy giant before it collapsed into bankruptcy at the end of 2001. He served jail time in connection with fraud and conspiracy, centered on accounting tricks that were partly used to cover financial losses. The charges state that as much as $2.5 million had been defrauded between 2009 and 2015.

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Germany’s Deutsche Bank Offers A Lifeline To Wirecard Bank

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Deutsche Bank, the Frankfurt-based multinational financial services company, is in talks with regulators to rescue Wirecard Bank, the deposit-taking division of the German payment company that is facing one of the country’s biggest accounting frauds, the Financial Times reported.

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Fraud Watch: Top Things to Binge Safe at Home

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Well, for those of you as obsessed with fraud and financial crime as me, here are a few more to add to your queue: Sour Grapes. This show profiles one of the most significant acts of fraud that you never knew about until now. Between 1989 and 2001, most of the prizes were earned through illegitimate means. McMillions.

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Madoff Whistleblower Has GE On The Defense

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Boston-based General Electric (GE) is defending itself against accounting fraud alleged by the same whistleblower who called out Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Reuters reported on Monday (Aug. percent in 2001, the report says. He also noted that the alleged fraud scheme “is going to make this company probably file for bankruptcy.

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Bringing medical and gaming tech to mobile fraud protection

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San Francisco-based Arxan Technologies, which got its start in 2001 providing security tools to protect gaming and medical-device applications, says financial services companies are one of the fastest-growing sectors seeking help in barricading their mobile apps from hackers.

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Fraud Detection Sizzles, iPhone Shares Fizzle And Some Upbeat Economic News

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Online fraud falls — a LOT: Contrary to popular opinion — and perhaps contrary even to logic — the fraud fight has given a round to the good guys, even if the battle is far from over. Online fraud is down 34 percent, overall, at the end of Q1 2017 versus a year ago. Sizzle of the Week: The Economy.

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