PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

” As a regulatory initiative aimed at combatting financial crime, KYC requirements are growing ever-more complex, leading corporates and their banks to demand new technologies and services that can address their compliance challenges. .” The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) refunded $2.6 million fine was issued by the U.K.’s

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FICO

JANUARY 8, 2020

At long last, fraud and compliance infrastructures are starting to converge. In the US, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in compliance is set to expand dramatically, per directives from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Fraud and Compliance Infrastructures Converge.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Following up on a threat it made back in 2018 , the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced on October 6, 2022 that it entered into a consent order with Rhinebeck Bank (“Rhinebeck”) to settle discrimination claims involving discretionary dealer markups on retail installment contracts with minority borrowers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We allege that BitFunder operated unlawfully as an unregistered securities exchange,” Marc Berger, director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release. We will continue to focus on these types of platforms to protect investors and ensure compliance with the securities laws.”. In a parallel criminal case, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. . The deal resolves the five criminal counts including wire fraud, conspiracy and computer intrusion. Department of Justice reached a deal with Ticketmaster before U.S. Further, Ticketmaster will have to report to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

7), Canadian prosecutors officially accused Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou of sanctions fraud. The New York Times reported that Ms. The presentation appeared to claim that Huawei operated in Iran in compliance with the sanctions. Meng’s presentation was an act of fraud. On Friday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

As part of the agreement, the company must pay restitution to shareholders, as well as implement internal controls and cooperate with the investigations of the former executives allegedly involved in the fraud. While the company previously traded on the New York Stock Exchange, it was delisted last year and now trades over the counter.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. New York-headquartered PAAY, a consumer authentication innovator co-founded in 2011 by James Ruffer and Yitz Mendlowitz, has a new security solution that aims to obliterate hacking and fraud threats.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

While Chinese traders are limited to the purchase of up to $50,000 of foreign currency annually, the volume suggests stablecoins could be being used to circumvent the regulation, according to Chainalysis , the New York-based provider of regulatory compliance software.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Richard Weber has been named to the position of general counsel at the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), according to an announcement from Superintendent of Financial Services Linda A. He also had previously served as Deutsche Bank’s head of Anti-Financial Crime for the Americas.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon has announced a new partnership with risk and payments solution provider Early Warning Services , aiming to boost digital B2B payments services for clients. With the new updated solution, BNY Mellon will let clients validate statuses and owners of accounts in real time across the U.S.

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Payments User Experience New York Fraud 240

PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2018

Western Union has agreed to pay a $60 million fine as part of a consent order with the New York State Department of Financial Services. 4) the fine for violations of the New York Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws. The DFS noted that Western Union has a history of compliance issues.

New York 116

New York Fraud Compliance Report 116

Abrigo

JUNE 27, 2023

Key Takeaways Real estate markets are vulnerable to money laundering and fraud because of their transaction size and appreciation over time. The institutions are the ones shouldering the costs of compliance, examinations, and fines. New York City and Miami were the original targets under the first order in 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

These violations, said FinCEN, “caused millions of dollars in suspicious transactions to go unreported in a timely and accurate manner, including proceeds connected to organized crime, tax evasion, fraud, and other financial crimes laundered through the bank into the U.S. financial system.”.

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FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

With any change, fraud comes hand-in-hand. Some of the changes are related to new digital payments methods like P2P apps, tap-to-pay, and cryptocurrency, which are all growing options in retail environments. All these evolutions mean a changing landscape for retail fraud and scam trends.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I am always glad to see headlines like this one, which ran last summer in The New York Times: “ How to Reduce Credit Card Fraud.” Every Transaction Is Assessed for Fraud. FICO’s patented and proven fraud analytic capabilities have helped organizations save $90 billion+ per year. Steps Ahead of Financial Criminals.

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FICO

APRIL 8, 2022

Data Orchestration for Fraud Prevention. There has been an awful lot of unsettling news about scams and fraud lately. As it happens, orchestration (of both data and process) is one of the most potent weapons in fighting scams and fraud. Scams Are Front Page News. Scams Are Front Page News. A crescendo, even.

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FICO

JULY 1, 2022

Global Fraud Trends: What’s Happening and What’s Next? Here are the highlights from the fraud trends breakout session at FICO World 2022 with a panel of fraud professionals from Brazil, Turkey and North America. A lot has changed since the last pre-pandemic FICO World conference, held in November 2019 in New York City.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, global card issuing platform Marqeta debuted its Tokenization-as-a-Service (TaaS) offering, while the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has named a new executive for global market infrastructure. The news follows Jumio’s Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

The New York Department of Financial Services has denied a virtual currency license for Bittrex, an American digital asset exchange. Bittrex was ordered to stop operating in New York and close shop within 60 days. Bittrex was ordered to stop operating in New York and close shop within 60 days.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A Brooklyn, New York, man agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in what’s believed to be the first such case involving an initial coin offering -- the rough equivalent of an IPO for digital currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Here, achieving success often involves adopting technologies that let established firms connect their past with their future, in ways that catapult robust-but-inflexible legacy infrastructure into new markets and contexts. However, fast time to market only accentuates fraud risk, because real-time payment systems are catnip to fraudsters.

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FICO

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Our collective reliance on phones has a number of implications for fraud, and in 2022 I predict that fraudsters will be so dialed in to our mobile lifestyles they will ply their trade in more ways and places than ever—including space. We can make a New Year’s resolution to stop checking our phones 63 times a day. What can banks do?

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2019

The New York Department of Financial Services has announced the creation of a new “ powerhouse ” Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement Division. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Prior to her work in consulting, Ms.

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Perficient

AUGUST 16, 2023

Lessons To Be Learned While Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart is, by far, the smallest to fail in the past year, with the next closest in size being Signature Bank in New York (Signature failed on March 12 th , 2023 with $110 billion of assets and $88.6 billion in deposits), the failure still poses lessons for bank executives.

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Abrigo

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, financial institutions and their service providers must also meet new obligations for reporting on computer-security incidents when they occur. In this guest column by Jeffrey Taft and Matthew Bisanz of Mayer Brown 's Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice, learn more about how to be ready for compliance.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It comes down to reality Management Duties Compliance Blogs AML & Fraud BSA/AML.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

.” Patrick Crosson, Swift Prepaid vice president of sales, emerging markets, added that financiers like Bitty need compliance and scalable solutions to meet their customers’ needs as they look beyond traditional lenders.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Regulators are also looking over Metro Bank’s regulatory reporting and governance for compliance. . “As Metro Bank has been mired in controversy and in May was hit with an investigation by two New York law firms, Pomerantz and Levi & Korsinsky, on behalf of investors concerned that the institution committed securities fraud.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A cluster of states in the northeastern US accounted for an additional 29%, and included New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. When looking at total fraud cases related to skimming, we saw that 70% were tied to POCs in 5 states: California (38%), New York (16%), Pennsylvania (6%) and Florida/Washington (5%).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The move targets one of the largest pain points of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance for businesses and their financial institutions (FIs): the complexity linked to corporations that use multiple banks across multiple jurisdictions. law enforcement led to 13 arrests in New York in 2017. ” .” ”

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Abrigo

JUNE 10, 2020

LaFontaine failed to take sufficient action when presented with significant AML program deficiencies in the Bank’s SAR-monitoring system and the number of staff to fulfill the AML compliance role by his AMLO [AML Officer],” the document said. If you don’t have compliance from the top down, document it, and look for another job,” she says.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

One of the biggest arguments in favor of federal legalization of marijuana is the opportunity for regulation to pull an industry off the black market, and into the world of compliance and transparency — ultimately promoting consumer safety. Fraud, in the herbal world, is a very common occurrence,” she told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 22, 2019

Ongoing training is at the very heart of a satisfactory Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program in financial institutions. 7 in New York, New York An additional workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada is planned for January 2020, with further details coming soon. Fraud Prevention.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a result, companies must either invest in teams of AML specialists or fraud-fighting technologies. The September AML/KYC Tracker takes a look at the latest fraud challenges and efforts to ensure tight security and compliance. B2B Payments: Moving from Inertia to Ignition.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Operations play a role across multiple facets of community banking, including account onboarding, payments and transactions, fraud analysis, compliance and regulatory guidelines. We believe operations is the “engine” that drives every aspect of banking and, ultimately, the bottom line. Minimizing friction. Take, for example, $7.1

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against New York-based Fluent, Inc.—a million civil penalty to the New York Attorney General in May 2021 relating to allegations that it supplied millions of fake public comments in opposition to proposed net neutrality rules.

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