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How A Local Lens For Risk Analysis Can Fight Global Money Laundering And Fraud

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Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart. In a recent interview with PYMNTS, he discussed tailoring fraud-fighting to merchants’ needs and how attention to local trends primes processors to fight money laundering and misbehavior when taking their operations global. .

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MENA Region Holds Regulatory Clues For Merchants

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Confident risk analysis can seem hard to come by when the world goes off its commercial axis, as it has been this year. Consumers in the MENA region have been flocking to online channels since the pandemic’s onset and businesses have followed suit by deploying new digital payment capabilities and offerings,” the Guide states.

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Scammers Prove Corporate Payments Fraud Comes In All Shapes And Sizes

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But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today. This week's B2B Digest looks at how corporate finance scams come in all shapes and sizes, from employee expense fraud to invoice falsification. PYMNTS breaks down the numbers behind the latest cases below.

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NEW STUDY: The Staggering, Rising Cost Of Account Takeover Fraud

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According to data from the October 2017 Global Fraud Index , a PYMNTS and Signifyd collaboration, account takeover use recently skyrocketed, climbing 45 percent in Q2 2017 alone. billion to the popular fraud technique in only a few months, and that may only be the beginning. percent: increase in total fraud from Q2 2016 to Q2 2017.

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Payments Fraud in Asia Post Pandemic

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Payments Fraud in Asia Post Pandemic. Why consumers are moving to banks with the best fraud and scam prevention. Senior Consultant, Fraud and Financial Crime. The growth of real-time payments and fraud in Asia. The appeal of these banking innovations has also made it a honeypot for fraud. Saxon Shirley.

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Fraudsters Try New Spins On The BEC Scam

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New analysis from Bank Info Security , for instance, revealed that BEC scammers have begun to target corporates’ financial documents from accounts receivable departments to identify unpaid invoices, as well as information regarding Days Sales Outstanding and clients. The Business Email Compromise (BEC) continues to evolve.

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New Vistas For Payments Orchestration

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Analysis, Compliance, Speed. The Payments Orchestration Playbook notes that, “A payments orchestration layer can serve as an intermediary between a merchant and its various PSPs, while also extending services that support payments analysis, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity [and] anti-fraud protection.”. “By

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