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Patchy Payroll And Expense Management Systems Cry Out For Upgrades

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For purposes of this analogy, the “basement” into which bad mice are creeping is most likely your legacy payroll/expense management software and its possibly compromised connections. While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them.

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Own Your Program Management, Own Your Destiny

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Being a program manager isn’t easy. If it’s not holding money or providing a payment network, the program manager does it: AML (anti-money laundering) compliance, KYC (Know Your Customer), fraud mitigation, marketing, privacy, document review, OFAC compliance, reporting and more.

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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

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The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000. Marblegate Asset Management, known for buying up distressed assets, now holds the largest lot of New York’s taxi-medallion loans.

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Dropbox’s Three-Pronged Defense Against Digital Fraud

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Cloud-based platforms are particularly juicy targets for digital fraud. File hosting service Dropbox is devoting substantial efforts to its fraud prevention measures, seeking to protect its more than 600 million users — who have 400 billon stored files, and upload 1.2 billion files each day. Round One: Automated Tools.

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Fraud Makes Headway Via ‘Payroll Diversion’

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Corporate fraud – from within the company, and from without – continues to make headlines and headway, with the past week having seen some revisits on stories from even a few years back. Steve Barber, AA audit committee chair, said that in cases like those seen at the cake firm, such activity would be hard to find.

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UK Watchdog’s Tesco Accounting Fraud Case Collapses

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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) unsuccessfully attempted to have Judge Sir John Royce’s decision overturned. managing director at Tesco, and John Scouler, the grocery giant’s former U.K. Tesco acknowledged in the autumn of 2014 that it overstated profits, the BBC said. ” Chris Bush, former U.K.

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The 2014 GonzoBanker Awards

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It’s time for the 2014 GonzoBanker Awards! Rise of the Analytics Organization in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Brush off your resumes Gonzoanalysts, at our client roundtables we heard about analytics organizations being formed and analysts and managers being hired to head them. but let’s just dive into it! THE BANKING AWARDS.