PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Blockchain may be building bridges quicker than expected. Quite possibly, the biggest blockchain news this week was that Swedish bank SEB announced that intends to build a blockchain channel between New York and Stockholm to enable customers to make real-time transfers, as soon as next year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even the mightiest of tech firms are not immune to invoice fraud. Engadget reported that Jeff Tran, Microsoft ’s former director of sports marketing and alliances, was charged with five counts of wire fraud. Wire fraud has a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Fraud On The Rise. Payments Fraud No Cakewalk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revealed that it might look into using blockchain technology to streamline disaster insurance payouts, as well as speed up its response to disasters. Earlier this year, the British Virgin Islands partnered with blockchain firm LIFElabs.io As Cointelegraph reported, U.K.-based

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JULY 14, 2019

The Brazilian state of Bahia has rolled out a blockchain application to monitor the public bidding process of contracts with the government, Cointelegraph reported. Design and Cayenne Technology reportedly created the Online Bid Solution (SOL), which is said to be a technology based on the blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

Air Force has granted blockchain firm SIMBA Chain a $1.5 million check to help create a new blockchain for supply logistics in the next two years, according to Coindesk.com. The goal of using blockchain is to hopefully cultivate a reliable source of information, documenting every data point necessary to keep track of the supply chain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Merchants have to participate in eCommerce if they want to maintain relevancy in today’s economy, but their engagement in online transactions also exposes them to new forms of fraud. And in digital fraud, phishing poses a unique threat to businesses. All this, Today in Data. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Banks may not always be up for overhauling their operations with a largely untested, disruptive technology, but new reports suggest the threat of fraud in one area of corporate finance is encouraging financial institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology in growing volumes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Data storage firm Seagate revealed that it has moved its anti-fraud blockchain project with IBM into the pilot stage. He added that it will become the first government agency run on a blockchain-based system and artificial intelligence.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Although it’s still in its infancy stage of being used outside of the financial arena, blockchain technology is slowly showing signs of impacting other industries. On the tip of everyone’s tongue in the digital advertising arena is blockchain technology. Blockchain has a number of exciting implications for digital advertising.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Business services conglomerate Accenture is expanding its blockchain solution offerings with the development of a procurement platform launched in Thailand. Accenture integrated its blockchain architecture into R3 ‘s Corda open-source blockchain platform to create the tool, the company said. ” .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The emergence of the “network of network” strategies on the parts of Visa and Mastercard have opened the door for faster payments, for the electronification of payments — and for blockchain to underpin it all. Crypto has been held up by critics as a conduit to fraud and money laundering.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Shane Bigelow , CEO of Vital Chain , which uses blockchain to help individuals download and control how healthcare data is used — including COVID-19 test certification — told PYMNTS in a recent interview that digital certificates can go a long way toward reopening businesses and establishing trust. I call it an accidental fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Blockchain has caught the attention of several FIs, especially for B2B and cross-border payments, even if there’s not yet consensus on how to best deploy it in real-world situations. Canadian payments network Interac has experimented with blockchain for consumer payments. We are now in the trough of disillusionment.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The CEO of Shopin, a blockchain-powered startup, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud related to $42.5 million in an initial coin offering, according to a report by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Blockchain firm Pundi X has announced that Venezuela’s largest chain of department stores will implement the XPOS, the blockchain-powered point-of-sale device, across its 49 stores around the country. Traki customers will be able to use various cryptocurrencies as payment options for the retailer’s products.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

With workflows disrupted and personnel dispersed, a rise in application fraud is being detected. The application fraud surge finds FIs and merchants retooling authentication measures, with AI, ML and unattended machine learning (UML) being variously arrayed against the threat of application fraud. Chaos vs. Control.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Many of the headlines centered on payments fraud have focused on the damage done to smaller suppliers and vendors, especially in the U.K. But beyond the now-familiar conduits of fraud done across email or through fake invoices, some lures have come through ties with cryptocurrencies. The scheme took place over three years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have said, promotes visibility and makes it more difficult for data to be manipulated. ” However, that’s only the beginning.

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JULY 3, 2019

ANZ , Commonwealth Bank , IBM , Scentre Group and Westpac have announced they are partnering to launch a live pilot for Lygon, a new digital platform using blockchain technology to digitize the bank guarantee process needed for retail property leases. We have created a blockchain-based platform to digitize the bank guarantee ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The CEO of Shopin, a blockchain-powered startup, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud related to $42.5 million in an initial coin offering, according to a report by Reuters.

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JUNE 2, 2020

In separate news, IBM and Chainyard, the blockchain consultancy, unveiled a supply chain management blockchain network called Trust Your Supplier, which aims to bolster supplier validation, life cycle data management and onboarding. Gartner Inc.,

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 18, 2016

After Clearing and Settlement as a blockchain use case, the next big area of interest is Trade Finance. This is primarily because it’s an area full of inefficiencies and open to fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Corporate fraud comes in many colors, but for many businesses, the most unexpected threat is the one looming from within company walls. This week, IBM announced a collaboration with Raw Seafoods to develop a blockchain solution to address supply chain fraud in the seafood industry, including cases of incomplete documentation and mislabeling.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Mastercard has launched two separate initiatives that touch the health care market — blockchain for visibility in food systems and Mastercard Healthcare Solutions to detect fraud and bring efficiencies in healthcare organizations.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 3, 2018

Host, Will Hernandez, discusses mobile fraud, how to combat it, and the recent trends to look out for, with Kount's VP of Marketing, Don Bush. Will also chats with Bradley Cooper, editor of Digital Signage Today and Blockchain Tech News, about the future of blockchain.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The World Blockchain Trade Consortium (WBTC) officially launched this week in Singapore with the aim to utilize blockchain technology to lower costs, reduce risk and increase funding to SMEs. Whilst we were talking to them about Invoice Check, they were asking about a lot of different use case scenarios for blockchain applications.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

However, to do so, these companies will need to make some adjustments to their fraud protection strategies. Implementing a layered anti-fraud approach that utilizes several technologies could help protect against bad actors looking for vulnerabilities. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments.

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Payments Source

MARCH 21, 2019

However, before we put all of our eggs in the blockchain basket, we need to examine whether the technology is ready to protect merchants from chargebacks and fraud, contends Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

YouTube is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit against it from crypto firm Ripple alleging that YouTube doesn’t do enough to remove scams and fraud, according to court documents. In other news, Ant Group , the FinTech arm of Chinese eCommerce company Alibaba , has launched its own new blockchain brand called AntChain, according to The Block.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

IrisGuard, an iris-recognition solutions company, and Patientory, a cybersecurity healthcare data solution firm, are collaborating to combine iris biometric technology with the healthcare focused PTOYNet blockchain network, to add another layer of security and authorization on the blockchain, and help with patient identity procedures.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Among the inventive ways that companies are fighting digital fraud in 2020 is Teradata’s new concept of analyzing computer mouse movements, as it turns out that hackers move their mice very differently than regular people. Fraud prevention tech has to scale. Clean’ and ‘Friendly’ Fraud are Neither. That’s “clean” fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

CULedger , a credit union, has inked a partnership with IBM to create blockchain services geared toward credit unions. According to a report in Fintech Futures , the idea behind the project is to use permission-based blockchain technology so credit unions can reach more members that don’t have access to financial services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

General Motors’ financing unit, General Motors Financial, is teaming up with Spring Labs , a blockchain company, to create identity verification solutions. The idea is to create a solution for verifying IDs and preventing identity fraud that meets all the regulatory requirements. In a press release issued on Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. A consortium of UAE banks is developing a blockchain-based platform over which they could share information about authenticated customers. Taking A Local Approach To Fighting Money Laundering, Fraud Worldwide.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

To be certain of taxes, will blockchain seal the deal? Last week, Thailand’s Revenue Department was reported to be bringing blockchain projects into the fold to track tax payments, aided by machine learning. The machine learning aspect will be used in an effort to uncover fraud. Bread By Blockchain.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 3, 2018

Host Will Hernandez, discusses mobile fraud, how to combat it, and the recent trends to look out for, with Kount's vice president of marketing, Don Bush. Will also chats with Bradley Cooper, editor of Digital Signage Today and Blockchain Tech News, about the future of blockchain.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Blockchain technology has allowed businesses to eliminate unnecessary, not to mention costly, intermediaries and significantly reduce international cross-border payment processing time from weeks to a day. With these benefits in mind, blockchain has recently captured the attention of several players from around the faster payments space.

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