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Start/Stop Cycle: Modern-Day Money Laundering And What To Do About It

PYMNTS

It’s because this type of fraud literally started with laundromats. Enter Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit, who turned the popularity and cash-based nature of the laundromat into an opportunity. It’s just like Al Capone running the “Chicago Outfit” – a much more legitimate-sounding organization than “the Italian mob” or “the Mafia.”.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Fraud prevention tools. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Broadly enabling online commerce. rate per transaction.

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Panic at the Checkout: Will EMV Friction Boost Mobile Payments?

FICO

Those numbers are pretty good, but nothing like the 141 million-plus EMV cards that Visa now has in circulation in the US, alone. People will rush to mobile payments because they’re uncomfortable with using their new EMV cards. I even fought my instinct to do a fast dip; I had left the card in there.

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Should we be moving towards a ‘less-cash’ society?

NCR

Consumers today have more ways to complete transactions than ever before, from tried-and-tested methods like credit and debit cards to more recent innovations such as contactless and mobile wallets. Amongst all this, there’s old-fashioned cash – a form of payment that has its drawbacks, but remains highly popular.

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raised $530 Million Third Week of July

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Tax filing portal. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Tags: Consumer, payments, debit card, billpay, funds transfer, mobile, personal financial management, PFM. Source: Crunchbase. West Creek Financial. Consumer piont of purchase financing. Latest round: $25 million Debt.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Based on a clearly defined strategy, this team has established a dedicated fintech group that offers services ranging from BaaS to sponsoring card issuance and lending, to providing crypto services, to offering niche partnerships to the gaming industry. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum. This is a nice marquee win for FIS.

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

Fintech Labs Insights

Emailage raised an undisclosed sum for its fraud prevention technology keyed off email address. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Fraud solutions based on email addresses. Tax preparation technology. Tags: Consumers, tax prep, personal financial management. Alt-lender to students. Cumulus Funding. Total raised: $31.85

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