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These initiatives could also lead to an increase in security risks, since sharing data among a range of financial service providers creates new opportunities for it to fall into the wrong hands. New open banking tools mean new types of financial transactions, which could make fighting digital fraud even more difficult for banks.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

New data shows a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 holiday season — with fraud likely to peak on Thanksgiving Day. The first step to fighting fraud is knowing what you’re up against,” Erika Dietrich, global director of payments risk at ACI Worldwide, said in a press release. “The

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. For example, Marriott , Facebook and a database marketing firm by the name of Exactis exposed the records of roughly 300 million people.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Perhaps more troubling, however, is digital fraud’s projected future. Recently published research noted global fraud losses could top $6 billion by 2021, more than doubling the $3 billion lost worldwide in 2015. As such, businesses are now investing in their security and fraud prevention technology and solutions.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

18) that it achieved 342 percent sales growth in 2018 compared with 2017 and that it has a four-year growth rate of 3,857 percent. In a press release, Onfido said 2018 was a landmark year for the company which not only enjoyed strong growth but named key members to its senior team and won accolades from within the industry.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fraudsters have been increasingly focused on mobile services, with one-third of all fraud attacks worldwide reportedly targeting mobile during the first half of 2018 — a 24 percent year-over-year increase. Fighting Fraud Visibly and Invisibly. Facing Future Fraud. Partnering With Established Players.

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MARCH 25, 2019

A new report has revealed that invoice fraud cost U.K. Invoice fraud happens when criminals pose as a regular supplier and make a request for their bank account information to be changed, usually via email. Invoice fraud could happen to businesses of all sizes. Even tech giants can be hit with invoice fraud.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

As faster and real-time payment schemes achieve ubiquity in more markets around the globe, speed is increasingly becoming the standard for payers of all kinds. This new reality isn’t without its challenges for financial services providers, however, with security and fraud mitigation among the largest concerns.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however. Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart. The card industry’s 3D Secure 2.0 Attuning To New Markets .

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Within days, Braun, 50, was arrested on charges of accounting fraud and market manipulation. Neil Campling, an analyst at Mirabaud Securities, told CNBC that the transaction was structured in such a way that SoftBank took no financial risk. billion euros ($2.1 A KPMG audit was conducted for Wirecard last fall.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

4) that the fraud was also perpetrated on other British banks. Of those customers impacted by this type of fraud, an extremely small number have been Metro Bank customers and none have been left out of pocket as a result,” a bank spokesperson said. The bank said on Monday (Feb.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Fines related to noncompliance increased 160 percent between September 2018 and December 2019, in fact. FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. Taking A Local Approach To Fighting Money Laundering, Fraud Worldwide. Find the full story in the Tracker.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Experiencing such gains comes with risks, however, as digital IDs have presented new and underexplored avenues for fraud. billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. But those gains come with fresh concerns about digital security.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Fraud takes many forms, from account takeover attacks to identity theft. But ad fraud might be one of the most insidious types. Some estimates range as high as $42 billion, because ad fraud is tricky to measure. Types of Ad Fraud.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The implosion of major payments player Wirecard AG amid a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal has spurred an overhaul of Germany’s top stock index. The index also plans to expand its membership – whose collective market value now stands at $1.2 Owner of the DAX-30 index, Deutsche Börse AG announced on Tuesday (Nov.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The development of digital identity solutions shows no signs of slowing in the new decade, with the mobile biometrics market expected to add $28.45 billion per year in incremental growth between 2018 and 2023. A multitude of security issues continue to plague the space, however, despite this optimistic future of digital identity.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The subscription eCommerce market is a favorite among consumers and businesses, growing more than 100 percent annually for the past five years. This increasingly sophisticated group poses a growing and costly headache to those who value the model, forcing businesses to spend billions on fraud-fighting technologies. trillion a year.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Socure, the provider of identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced Thursday (Feb. market sectors that are in need of accurate, automated identity verification technology, including healthcare and the public sector,” Socure CEO Tom Thimot said in the press release. 28) it raised $30 million in Series C funding.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Some important financial technologies are changing the way the world is doing business and that change is now reaching the securities industry. Below are just a few of the sessions surrounding IBM Banking and Financial technologies you won’t want to miss at SIFMA 2018. There will also be many great panel discussions at SIFMA 2018.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Just as the Wild Card Round is followed by the Divisional Round in the NFL playoffs , fraud and payments predictions are always followed by New Year’s resolutions. Sure enough, wallets among fraud and payments professionals had already dropped some poundage. My Predictions for 2018. Payment Apps Proliferate.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

According to recent information from Juniper Research , online payment fraud losses from e-commerce, airline ticketing, and money transfer and banking services are expected to reach $48 billion by 2023, more than double the $22 billion in losses estimated for 2018. Synthetic identities and new account fraud.

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MAY 13, 2019

Small and micro merchants that would otherwise have been priced out of the market by traditional, fixed POS systems have seen success with mPOS solutions. Trust issues have only become more pressing as the global mPOS market grows, reaching a value of $170 million, according to a Global Mobile POS Market 2019 report.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

billion digital records were compromised in the first half of 2018 alone — a staggering figure that could not have been possible if digital IDs were not drawing so much attention. Tighter security and authentication methods for digital IDs are necessary to lessen the magnitude of these breaches, and hopefully stop them entirely. .

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JANUARY 31, 2019

NACHA recently released new figures on ACH network volume, revealing earlier this week that Same-Day ACH volume grew 46 percent between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018, surpassing 50 million transactions for the first time. Accelerated payments are taking off in several markets around the world, and NACHA’s latest figures demonstrate U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The site reported that 1,932 BTMs were in the world in December 2017, while there were 4,009 by the close of 2018. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable. Department of Homeland Security is running a contest for the development of a digital wallet, CoinDesk reported.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Data storage firm Seagate revealed that it has moved its anti-fraud blockchain project with IBM into the pilot stage. Launched in 2018, the project monitors products sent via several steps to the customer, including product returns, to prevent counterfeit drives from being sent back.

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JUNE 22, 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit to freeze the assets of two brothers allegedly engaged in “an offering fraud” and in misappropriating investor funds. Fraud relating to cryptocurrency has been on the rise in recent years as the form has become more mainstream.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This is largely due to the increasing prevalence of delivery, which increased by 15 percent since 2018 primarily due to the rise of mobile-order ahead apps. Fraud is a constant concern for QSRs and their customers. Deep Dive: Exploring The Rise Of Gift Card Fraud. Developments From Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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JULY 13, 2020

Consumers’ and commercial buyers’ interest in the sector have slowly risen since some markets worldwide have reopened brick-and-mortar locations and resumed normal business dealings. Many markets’ stay-at-home orders led consumers looking for new homes to rely on digital tools. KYC, Security In The Digital Onboarding Age.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Security and compliance are also vital components in ensuring that payments are delivered safely and without delay. The conversation took place against a backdrop of rapid growth in demand for real-time payment systems in some domestic markets. And to that end, we’ve seen growing engagement and co-operation across the industry.”.

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MARCH 19, 2018

– Saket Sinha, IBM Vice President & Partner, Banking & Financial Markets. To a maximum capacity audience and kicking off an exciting week of IBM Think 2018 in Las Vegas, IBM VP Saket Sinha led the “Intelligent Automation in Financial Services” breakout session. ” IBM leads the way in intelligent automation.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Digital fraud continues to flourish, with recent surveys finding that security breaches have increased 67 percent since 2014 and 11 percent since 2018. Organizations and security developers are investing billions of dollars in fighting these fraud attempts. Developments From Around the World of Digital Fraud.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018!

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JUNE 26, 2020

That routine audit procedure could have uncovered the vast fraud at the suburban Munich company, the report said. Markus Braun, the 50-year-old Wirecard founder and CEO, was arrested this week on charges of manipulating the market and misrepresenting accounts. billion) in cash, the Financial Times reported.

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