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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. According to Orloff, LendUp and Beneficial State came up with the idea to offer a socially responsible credit card product several years ago, but it only came to market this spring. percent to 29.99

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Top 5 Fraud Posts for 2022: Scams, Contactless and Money Mules

FICO

This is not only the case for application fraud — where automation is used to create and submit hundreds if not thousands of applications — but also for card fraud. They were able to identify attempts to uncover CVVs on the cards they had issued and could therefore have those cards blocked and reissued. Read the full post.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Allen, Chief Compliance Officer, Bank of American Fork, American Fork, Utah. Quick, Vice President of Compliance, First Hope Bank, N.A., Christopher G. Kukla, Senior Vice President, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, N.C.

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U.S. Card Skimming Fraud Grows 700+% in First Half of 2022

FICO

Card Skimming Fraud Grows 700+% in First Half of 2022. Credit card and debit card skimming fraud is back with a vengeance in the US, while other fraud types are seeing global growth. And card skimming is big business; the FBI estimates that “skimming costs financial institutions and consumers more than $1 billion each year.”.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 HQ: Oakland, California. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . Tags: Enterprise, compliance, social media, regulations, marketing, Finovate alum. More than half the total ($46 million) went to Chinese P2P lender Weijinsuo.

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Tags: SMB, payments, merchants, credit/debit cards, acquiring, POS. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. Lender for solar energy installations. Latest round: $220 million Private Equity. Total raised: $245 million. Source: Crunchbase. Cloud cash and treasury management solutions.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $260 Million Week Ending Feb 12

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Underwrites & guarantees high-risk credit card transactions . Tags: B2B, consumer, compliance, sales, on-boarding, UX, Silicon Valley Bank (lender). Here are the fintech deals by size from 6 Feb to 12 Feb 2016: Renew Financial. Financing for renewable energy and conservation projects. Maestro Health.

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