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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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Themes & Takeaways From the 2022 Real-Time Payments & Fraud Management Summit 

Perficient

Our Payments Practice recently had the opportunity to represent Perficient at the 2022 Real-time Payments & Fraud Management Summit held in New York City. . The conference was attended by several Financial Institutions, Service Providers, Fintechs, and Industry Regulators.

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Fed Tackles Fraud On Legacy Rails As New Infrastructure Gains Traction

PYMNTS

Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud. Federal Reserve Tackles Fraud Across Rails. Indeed, the risks of fraud on legacy rails continues to be a focus for payments industry stakeholders, and the Federal Reserve has just introduced a new resources designed to mitigate that risk. In the U.S.,

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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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Top News In Payments: Visa To Begin New Certification Program; Circle Co-Founder To Depart Firm

PYMNTS

Also, the co-founder of Boston-based payments firm Circle will step down from his co-CEO role at the end of the month. The co-founder of Circle, a Boston-based payments firm, will step down from his co-CEO role at the end of the month. And Uber has debuted a group ordering option.

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Fed Names New Payments Security Leader

PYMNTS

Federal Reserve System has appointed its Payments Security Strategy leader, the agency announced Friday (Dec. Kenneth Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is taking up the position. Treasury and financial market, among other responsibilities.

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Fed Task Force Releases Payment Lifecycles And Security Profiles

PYMNTS

Beyond advising the Faster Payments Task Force on security issues, the group focuses on identifying the challenges and opportunities related to improving payment security, including identity management, data protection and information sharing to mitigate fraud.

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