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Latin America Tries To Tackle Its Digital Security Problem

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But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Fraud is a Top Worry. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami.

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Real Estate Money Laundering An Increasing Focus Of Governments

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trillion a year, reported Mansion Global, citing data from Accuity, a global risk and compliance company. Money laundering through real estate is about $1.6 Patrick Hinchin, vice president of commercial strategy at Accuity, said in the report that money laundering through real estate is becoming more common in Australia, America and the U.K.

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FinCEN Steps up Efforts to Protect Against the Six Biggest Threats to the U.S. Financial System

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At the recent NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement , FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco discussed the organization’s active approach toward addressing the top financial threats to our financial system, our national security, and our communities and families. The 12 major U.S.

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Bitcoin Daily: Unicas Opens Physical Crypto Bank Branch In India; Mayor Eyes Investing 1 Pct Of Miami's Reserves In Bitcoin

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In other news, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a nonstop social media cheerleader for the notion of building a high-tech ecosystem in South Florida, publicly embraced exploring using cryptocurrency to store some government financial reserves and blockchain to secure processes such as online voting.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Goldman Sachs began working to automate its own IPO process after it found that around half of the 127 IPO steps it identified could be done by computers — for example, making calls to compliance, making calls to legal, delivering price updates to clients, preparing the company’s audited financials, and so on. In 2017, startups raised $5.6B

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X-Border Sales Dream Team?

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The solution helps merchants make the most of cross-border opportunities – enabling payments for goods purchased, while staying on the right side of fraud, risk, tax and regulatory and legal compliance. And they verify that the orders are not fraud,” he said. And, a lot of times, we weren’t hitting the mark,” Rubio admitted. “We

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

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To those community bankers claiming their growing Compliance departments say no to everything. How about fighting harder with better examples and holding compliance officers as accountable as everybody else. FFIEC’s Cyber Security Self-Assessment Tool. Popular Community Bank in Miami. Somebody-Call-the-Whaambulance Award.