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FedNow implementation: What fraud and AML professionals need to know

Abrigo

How offering FedNow instant payments affects fraud & AML/CFT compliance What financial crime staff can do to prepare fraud and AML functions for implementing the FedNow Service for instant payments. Would you like other articles on fraud and AML/CFT compliance in your inbox? Instant payments service What is FedNow?

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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. New account fraud.

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Bad Actors Emerge in PPP Lending – More Expected as Forgiveness Guidance Emerges

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Like other federal relief programs, the PPP has become subject to fraud. The first federal charges of PPP loan fraud have been made – and they're unlikely to be the last. From 9/11 to Hurricane Sandy, and now, during COVID-19, federal relief funds aimed to help people rebuild after a disaster becomes subject to fraud.

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Fed Names New Payments Security Leader

PYMNTS

Kenneth Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is taking up the position. He will lead the Fed’s initiative to address payments fraud risk and boost the security of payments in the U.S. Treasury and financial market, among other responsibilities.

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Fed Says America Needs Instant Payments As Soon As Possible

PYMNTS

Brainard, Kansas City Fed President Esther George and Boston Fed First Vice President Kenneth Montgomery also noted that the FedNow system will provide another option in a landscape already populated by, for example, The Clearing House Payments Co. (Or Combatting Fraud — And Addressing Competition And Costs .

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Blockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Technology Could Impact Voting in U.S. Elections

PYMNTS

With President Trump’s claim of voter fraud on a massive scale in the 2016 presidential election, it may be time for the country to rethink its voting process. This isn’t the first time that there have been issues with voting in the United States — or wild claims of voter fraud.

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Now is the time to prepare for the FedNow launch

Independent Banker

2022 will be a big year as we move from development to pilot testing and begin to engage more with financial institutions in active planning,” says Nick Stanescu, senior vice president, FedNow business executive, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “We Our institution has taken a strong focus on fraud as we prepare for FedNow,” Furey says.