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People's United Bank On How ML And Rules-Based Analysis Work In Tandem For Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

Connecticut-based People’s United Bank has seen this trend in action in recent months, said Karen Boyer , the financial institution's vice president of financial crimes and fraud intelligence. Cash users [shifted] to physical cards and the physical card users [shifted] more to.

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Why US Credit Card Fraud Complaints Are On The Rise

PYMNTS

Credit card fraud complaints in the U.S. ValuePenguin analyzed data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and found that there were approximately 70,000 credit card fraud complaints submitted in 2015. At the state level, the number of credit card fraud complaints were much more pronounced.

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Mobile Payments Fraud: How Strong Is Your Defensive Line?

FICO

Seeing the flutter of sawbucks gave me a flashback to one of my first payments memories, from the early 1980s, when the Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. However, as a payments professional in the business of preventing fraud, I’m not just impressed at how easy this new ATM technology is to use. No, CBT’s Barney wasn’t a purple dinosaur.

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Capital One Hack Prompts Lawsuit, NY AG Probe

PYMNTS

The security breach at Capital One that exposed 100 million credit card applications and thousands of bank accounts and Social Security numbers is rapidly seeing repercussions. . Kevin Zosiak, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and whose personal information was compromised in the breach, filed the suit in federal court in Washington, D.C.,

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Uber’s Rough Ride Of A Week

PYMNTS

The ride-sharing company said that no Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken. Uber is also under investigation by the attorneys general of New York, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois. drivers’ license numbers.

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Smaller Firms Targeted For Big Hauls By Payments Fraudsters

PYMNTS

Small firms, big fraud. Separately, and in a case involving payment card fraud, Navajo Times reported that Director Jesse Delmar of the Division of Public Safety is “on his way to being sanctioned with 20 percent of his salary” in the wake of a June order from a committee. Want another way and means of fraud?

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $440 Million Week Ending July 23

Fintech Labs Insights

The biggest equity round ($50 million) went to Remedy Partners , a Connecticut-based health tech company. HQ: Darien, Connecticut. HQ: South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Tags: Security, enterprise, business intelligence, compliance, ERM, fraud protection. million for its mobile P2P payment service. government. Mint Payments.

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