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LATAM’s Payments Innovation Renaissance

PYMNTS

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Part of that, he added, is across-the-board high standards when it comes to compliance and verification.

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Japanese Crypto Exchanges to Create Self-Regulatory Body After $530M Heist

Bank Innovation

The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchanges currently operating in Japan will soon form a self-regulating body, after a $530 million heist of digital coins in the region led to investor concerns, Reuters reported today.

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Bitcoin Daily: New Data Set To Help Flag Illicit Crypto Transactions; MIT Study Finds Only 2 Pct. Unlawful

PYMNTS

Cryptocurrency compliance company Elliptic has released the Elliptic Data Set, which aims to identify crypto transactions associated with money laundering. A big problem with compliance, in general, is false positives. However, the majority of the transactions, around 77 percent, remained unclassified. “A

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Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation

PYMNTS

Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? That includes anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, know your customer (KYC), fraud mitigation, marketing, privacy, document review, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) compliance, reporting and more. Modo Payments.

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Digital Debit, Libra And The Roaring 2020s Top Week’s News

PYMNTS

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plans continued to dominate the week’s news, but Visa and Bank of America both made big news, and new PYMNTS research dug deep into the problems of HBO and Netflix subscriber churn and PSD2 challenges. Payments Execs Weigh In On Innovation For the Roaring 2020s.

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2023 Money 20/20 USA Recap

Alex Jimenez

Regulation and Compliance: Not one of the more exciting topics, but there seems to be a growing emphasis on FinTech regulation and compliance, particularly around industry stability and consumer protection. Financial Inclusion: The need for the industry’s support of underserved populations and regions came up often.

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Financial Crime Predictions 2021: More AI & Ransomware

FICO

It has also opened new doors for criminals, who have rushed to exploit the uncertainty in a pandemic world and devised new money laundering and terrorist financing schemes by taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, new ways of working aided by advances in technology, and electronic payment innovations.