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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

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Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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Upcoming Tell-All Book Questions Uber’s Fee Structure

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Uber is trying to reassure its customers before a tell-all book about the company is released. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi noted that “Dallas became the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012, and since then Texas has been a hub of innovation for our platform.

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GetMyBoat: Why Boat Rentals Are Making A Splash This Summer

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How does a travel company increase bookings almost 4,000 percent in just four months in the middle of a global pandemic? For instance, he told PYMNTS that GetMyBoat is partnering with FareHarbor , a local activities-and-experiences booking platform. Innovation By The Boatload. Making Fraudsters Walk The Plank.

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Fraud Decisioning Pulls Ahead In A Tight Race

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Companies are getting much better at fraud detection and prevention, partly in response to its rapid spread. A leading index of digital theft found that loyalty fraud exploded by 89 percent over 2018, opening a vast new front in the battle. For their part, the anti-fraud community is hitting back hard. Fighting Fakes With Fire.

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Can Digital Platforms Solve The Fraud vs. Friction Dilemma?

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Digital platforms facilitate everything from online shopping to ridesharing to booking a hotel. These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver – but when platforms focus on reducing friction for users, it can backfire and create new vulnerabilities to fraud. According to the AI Innovation Playbook , 63.6

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B2B Financing Firm FreightRover Reportedly Impacted By Celadon Fraud Scam

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Williams reportedly was president of a Celadon subsidiary called Quality Companies during the period of alleged fraud. Fraud Allegations. million for filing materially false and misleading statements to investors and falsifying books, records and accounts.”. Here is what happened, at least according to the U.S.

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Splitty Makes It Easier To Grab A Piece Of The Travel Industry

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Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Travel platforms are enabling more online bookings than ever, and 83 percent of U.S. Merchants Need To Rethink Booking.

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