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Kount, FreedomPay Join Forces To Offer Payments Platform, Fraud Prevention Package

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Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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How Dropbox Fights Fraud

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Fraud continues to increase in many areas, despite extensive attempts to bring it to heel. Retail fraud attempts have doubled year over year, for example, while account takeover (ATO) fraud losses recently hit $14.7 billion , and phishing attacks now comprise 30 percent of all fraud attempts. billion since 2016.

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Uber Gets Fined By UK, Dutch Regulators For 2016 Data Breach

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and Dutch regulators on Tuesday (Nov. 27) for the data breach in 2016 that impacted millions of users. The fines stem from a data breach in 2016 in which the names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses of 57 million users around the globe were compromised. regulators. Uber was hit with a fine by U.K. Of those, 2.7

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Beneficial ownership: Final rule and its impacts on AML programs

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Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently issued a new regulation on the requirements, including how AML staff will access the information through a new federal beneficial ownership information (BOI) registry. This is in line with the current CDD regulations. Effective Jan. Be ready for AMLA-related changes.

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Uber Faces Fine From France For 2016 Data Breach

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20) that it fined Uber $460,000 over its 2016 data breach that exposed the data on 57 million customers and drivers across the world. According to a report in Moneycontrol.com , the French Data Protection Authority said the data breach could have been prevented by implementing “certain elementary security measures.”

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SEC Charges Former Wells CEO And Bank Head In Fraud Scandal

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Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) on Friday (Nov. The SEC claims that Tolstedt publicly discussed and endorsed Wells Fargo’s “cross-sell metric” as a way of keeping track of the bank's financial success from mid-2014 to mid-2016. Stumpf agreed to settle the charges by paying a $2.5 Stumpf also already agreed to pay $17.5

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Turkish Authorities Search For Suspect In US Tax Fraud Scheme

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claimed the company was creating fake production records between 2010 and 2016 in order to access renewable fuel tax credits, which it would then launder, the AP reported. PYMNTS reported this month that corporate fraud schemes have been ubiquitous as of late. The Kingstons pleaded guilty in the tax credit scheme in the U.S.,

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