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SaaS Platform Kount Partners With Verifi To Help Firms Minimize Disputes, Fraud

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Kount , the Boise, Idaho-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify fraud detection and improve profitability, announced it has partnered with Verifi , the payment protection and management company. In June, Visa signed an acquisition agreement with Verifi.

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Sloan Alone: Why The Wells Fargo CEO (Perhaps) Had To Go

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Such scandals included the sham account openings, where deposit and credit card accounts were created without customers’ knowledge, as well as the controversies over mortgage and auto lending. Not to mention, the outage over a 5 percent pay raise in 2018, where Sloan got $18.4 million that year. trillion.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

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Hinojosa-Ojeda, Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles Division of Social Sciences, Los Angeles, Calif. Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Hall, Executive Vice President, PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Raul A.

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The 2014 GonzoBanker Awards

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It’s been a busy year integrating recent acquisitions, purchasing $1 billion+ in Banco Popular deposits, hiring former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to advise on community relations, and having former President Bill Clinton speak at a major financial literacy event. Risk Management. ??? Strategic Planning.

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The Nerd Oscars: 24 Best Data Science Moments in Movies

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Plot Summary: What would you do if you were a risk management expert for a major Wall Street investment bank, and a departed colleague’s risk models warned you that all of your holdings would begin to fatally crash the following day? To join us, check out our job postings here. Before the Door Pictures).

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Fintech Fundings: 20 Companies Raise $300 Million Week Ending July 17

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HQ: Los Angeles, California. Independent source of consensus credit risk. Tags: Payments, prepaid cards, digital banking, mobile, global payments. Merchant-issuer collaboration software. HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Latest round: $45 million. Total raised: $45 million. Source: FT Partners. RealtyMogul. Credit Benchmark.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

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Now, to avoid any cue card and teleprompter issues, we’ll just go with the written list again this year. According to CardFlight, only 42% of MasterCard and 52% of Visa cards are chip-enabled due to backlogged card producers and payment processors. And the winners are …. THE BANKING AWARDS. GonzoBanker of the Year. The reasons?