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PPP fraud: How financial institutions can mitigate ongoing risk

Abrigo

Detecting PPP fraud after the program's end date BSA and fraud professionals saw a spike in fraud during the first two rounds of PPP funding. Takeaway 1 Prosecutors call PPP fraud the largest fraud in a generation. Here's how to detect fraudulent loans still in the portfolio.

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Stopping PPP Fraud

Abrigo

How Institutions Can Avoid Fraud Surprises in the Next Round of the PPP BSA and fraud professionals saw a spike in PPP fraud during the first two rounds of funding. How can they be better prepared to prevent fraud in this next round? Stopping PPP Fraud in New Round of Funding. PPP Fraud Spikes.

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PPP Headaches: As Anti-Fraud Efforts Continue, Borrowers & Lenders Face Challenges

Abrigo

You might also like this webinar: "Detecting PPP Fraud: Optimizing Your AML Solution". Takeaway 1 To prevent the kind of fraud that plagued the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020, the SBA has put new measures in place that have created challenges. PPP fraud-prevention challenges arise. New Guidance Out. mail, Craig said.

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Use Our ERC Assist Program to Raise Deposits

South State Correspondent

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. ERC gave eligible businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50% of $10,000 for qualified wages paid per employee. In 2020, the U.S.

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FinCEN’s AML/CFT Priorities: A risk assessment perspective

Abrigo

That means it’s essential to ensure that awareness of risk and coordination efforts to reduce risk are documented within your institution’s AML/CFT risk assessment. If your institution has additional mitigation procedures laid out in other documents, be sure to include those policies and procedures in your risk assessment.

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Trade-based money laundering: The link to terrorist financing

Abrigo

See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. Read now Means and methods How trade-based money laundering works In recent years, investigations have documented how terrorist organizations work with transnational organized crime groups to facilitate terrorist financing.

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Making the Instant Payment Decision

South State Correspondent

Most banks ignore instant payments or are still worried about fraud and research. 33% are still made via check that contains more than $8B of fraud per year. Check fraud is up some 84% and is only going to go up. Maybe the payer needs a breakout of taxes, or perhaps the payee was only able to ship a partial order.

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