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Germany’s Deutsche Bank Offers A Lifeline To Wirecard Bank

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Deutsche Bank, the Frankfurt-based multinational financial services company, is in talks with regulators to rescue Wirecard Bank, the deposit-taking division of the German payment company that is facing one of the country’s biggest accounting frauds, the Financial Times reported.

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Pindrop’s Solutions Fight Call Center And Voice Fraud

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A classic image of payment fraud involves a fraudster stealing credit card numbers and shopping for goods in-person or online. Founded in 2011, Pindrop’s security solution was built to protect banks and other financial institutions from call center and voice fraud. While the roll-out of EMV in the U.S. at Georgia Tech.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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Key Takeaways Real estate markets are vulnerable to money laundering and fraud because of their transaction size and appreciation over time. Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. In the GTO, FinCEN began requiring U.S.

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FinCEN reissues real estate Geographic Targeting Orders

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title insurance companies to identify the natural persons or beneficial owners behind shell companies used in non-financed purchases of real estate. Real estate purchases have been a successful vehicle for laundering money for many years, particularly through the shell companies that this GTO aims to negate. BSA Software.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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One use case is to use a bot, via text messaging, to help customers when they have potential credit card fraud. Not sure what the business model is here, or how they are different from other similar companies. ^SR. The company is demonstrating a mobile-based “deal room.” Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). Good job.

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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Subscription-based offerings can be essential with helping business-to-consumer (B2C) companies create long-running relationships and lock down more predictable streams of revenue. That’s because China eCommerce company Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results.

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Will Children Point The Way Forward For Wearables?

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Children are the future — that’s just a biological fact, and the theme of an old Whitney Houston song. Corporate payments, including travel expenses, is one area that has yet to find wide use with wearables, though companies are trying to figure out how to do so in an ecosystem that involves multiple players. Wearables for Children.

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