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The Rise And Fall Of Faster Payments Fraud

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Back in 2004, fraud was on the rise globally. Digital fraud was a new beast, and people didn’t know any better than to be tricked by phishing emails that today would raise red flags for even the most technologically illiterate consumers — sketchy email addresses, poor grammar and those classic sob stories from Nigerian princes, to name a few.

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2023 Trends & Predictions

Javelin Strategy & Research

Banner Section Home Rss.xml 2023 Trends & Predictions Javelin’s Trends & Predictions reports look at the coming year across the range of Javelin Strategy & Research’s practice areas—digital banking, fraud & security, payments, and wealth management—and highlight the compelling challenges and opportunities likely to emerge.

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

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The Dubai International Financial Centre ratified the original version of its Data Protection Law (DPL) in 2007, for example — about a year earlier than Europe’s official General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and first Payment Services Directive (PSD) launches. The Data Privacy Twist .

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.

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Proposed new cyber security regulations will be a huge undertaking for financial institutions

Celent Banking

Yesterday (Tuesday, November 10), the authorities charged three men with what they call “pump and dump” manipulation of publicly traded stock, mining of nonpublic corporate information, money laundering, wire fraud, identity theft and securities fraud. The attack began in 2007 and crossed 17 different countries.

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In India, Cash Is Putting Up A Fight

PYMNTS

“Things are changing, but not really at the pace one would expect,” said Nirupama Soundararajan, an economist at Pahle India , a New Delhi-based political research think tank, who believes that the slow rate of change is also reflective of India’s struggle to adopt digital banking services. Demonetization and the rise in cash usage.

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Watch 27 Fintech Demos Named “Best of Show” at Finovate in the Past Year (June 2020)

Fintech Labs Insights

Launched in 2007 in NYC, Finovate* now organizes 4+ shows annually where fintech startups (as well as a few bigger companies mixed in) show their technology in no-Powerpoint 7-min demos. Amber Labs Product : Global Bitcoin Bank. efigence Product : EFI4 Digital Banking Platform. FinovateAsia 2019 (Oct 2019).

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