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How Facebook Unfriends Ad Fraudsters

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Digital fraud continues to be one of the most pressing issues that marketplaces face today. Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Developments Around The Digital Fraud World. Businesses are turning to a variety of solutions to fight fraud, including leveraging blockchain technology.

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Former Wirecard CFO Free For Now As German Probe Continues

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Burkhard Ley, the financial chief of Wirecard from 2006 to 2017, was released from jail on bail after three months behind bars, Munich prosecutors said Monday (Nov. 2), according to FT. Ley’s release is also subject to “extensive bail terms,” the prosecutors said, declining to offer more detail, according to FT.

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Signature Bank Taps Tech For Simplified AP

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. “We recognized a need among our business customers for an automated solution that would help modernize and transform their payments from manual and paper-based processes into a simple, seamless solution,” said Anne Doligale, senior vice president of treasury management at Signature Bank.

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Raising Elder Fraud Awareness to Prevent Real Estate Scams

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All too often, elders today are the targets of residential real estate fraud and scams. The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t just gripped the world for the last year—it’s also ignited a residential real estate boom in the US, with home sales hitting peaks not seen since 2006. The Galloping Growth of Merchandise Muling. by Darryl Knopp.

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Is your bank stopping fraud?

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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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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The SEC found LCA, LendingClub and Laplanche guilty of fraud for improperly using LCA assets to benefit LendingClub Corporation, LCA’s parent company for which Laplanche was both founder and CEO. By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. The SEC Finding.

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Pulling Back The Curtain On Corporate Finance Reports

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“We found the results to be consistent with the argument that managers can successfully hide adverse information by writing complex financial reports, which leads to stock price crashes when the hidden bad news accumulates and reaches a tipping point,” he said, according to Phys.org reports last week. In the U.K., In the U.S.,

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