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Sift Science Eyes Global Fraud Prevention With $53M In Funding

PYMNTS

Fraud detection startup Sift Science has raised $53 million in a series D round, bringing its total amount raised to $107 million. Founded in 2011, Sift Science plans to use this latest round of funding to grow its fraud detection and prevention product globally. based Featurespace and Atlanta-based Pindrop.

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Mazooma, Plaid Team Up To Advance Payments For iGaming, Sports Betting

PYMNTS

bank connections are an ideal complement to Mazooma's ACH processing platform, risk management features and compliance protocols," he added. Partnering with Mazooma will help streamline account funding and reduce fraud for gaming companies and their players," said Lowell Putnam, head of partnerships at Plaid.

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Featurespace lands in the US, opens headquarters in Atlanta

The Paypers

(The Paypers) Featurespace , a provider of adaptive behavioural analytics technology for fraud and risk management, has announced that the UK-based company will open its US headquarters this month.

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Duly Authorized

Independent Banker

Current best practices in fighting wire fraud. With wire fraud on the rise, community banks have to step up precautions to protect themselves and their customers. Wire fraud incidents nearly doubled to 27 percent in 2014, from 14 percent a year earlier, according to the 2015 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey.

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raise $270 Million Second Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

million went to Finovate alum Pindrop to further its phone-based fraud solutions. $5 Phone-based fraud solutions. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Alt-credit score & risk management for financial institutions in emerging markets. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. million to alt-auto-title lender Finova Financial. $17

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

If you think of teams that take early system adoption risk, manage it well and get an edge on the competition as a result, you probably don’t think first of a $1 billion credit union in Kalamazoo. The merger deal itself made total sense, but goodbye to one of the brightest, sunniest industry brand names and an Atlanta hallmark.

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

Scott Graf is one of the presenters, a great, smart exec from Atlanta. The company enables clients to achieve best-in-class results driving quality and innovation in Payments, Processing Services, Risk & Compliance, Customer & Channel Management, and Insights & Optimization. Now this will be interesting.