PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

“With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”. As more brands embrace eCommerce, he added, joining online platforms solves only some of the challenges of international, cross-border efforts — namely, setting up digital storefronts and reaching consumers.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

Visma Connect recently interviewed Jürgen Krieg, FICO's head of global compliance sales. In this excerpt from that article, Jürgen elaborates on the importance of compliance. . At FICO, I am responsible for planning and implementing growth strategies to develop new markets, and the expansion of our compliance business globally.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Payments Fraud in Asia Post Pandemic. Why consumers are moving to banks with the best fraud and scam prevention. Senior Consultant, Fraud and Financial Crime. The growth of real-time payments and fraud in Asia. The appeal of these banking innovations has also made it a honeypot for fraud. Saxon Shirley.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

FinTech solution company Entersekt has upgraded its authentication technology in the DACH region of Europe, according to a release. Together with Entersekt , we deliver a PSD2-compliant, highly secure online payment process that is decidedly user-friendly.”. Two major Austrian card issuers are also using the technology. “We

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FICO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Strong Fraud Protection Could Draw More Customers - Survey. Fraud protection is now firmly on the radar for consumers and has risen substantially as a deciding factor - it could even be a competitive advantage for banks. In the UK, trade bodies have called for fraud levels to be considered a national security threat.

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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. One option that makes it easy for BSA officers to complete required training is to attend regional meetings. Cost for these regional meetings is $100, and dates and locations are: Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Players in the sharing economy must contend with an increasingly complex online payments ecosystem as they move into new regions and attract participants to their platforms. Fraud, Payment Regulations Are Affecting Seamless Payments. Renters pay upon booking trips, and owners receive their payments once trips have begun.

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FICO

MAY 19, 2021

What Is First-Party Fraud? From banks to telcos to debt collection agencies, what looks like unrecoverable bad debt may in fact be first-party fraud. For many people, the word “fraud” evokes images of shadowy criminals using stolen identities and purloined credit card information to commit financial crimes. by Matt Cox.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This shift has created significant opportunities for local banks, however with this growth comes the inevitable threat of increased fraud, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic and the explosion in ecommerce and card-not-present fraud. Expansion Brings Fraud Challenges.

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FICO

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But European fraud and financial crime have continued to evolve. In the UK, Action Fraud reported several hundreds of cases of people receiving emails claiming to be from the NHS, offering them a vaccine passport, prompting them to click on a link and input their personal and financial details. Related scams have also been on the rise.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. Consumers’ changing views are prompting MENA financial authorities to reexamine how their present regulations handle online privacy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers around the globe have moved their purchasing online during the pandemic, and those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are no exception. The region’s financial institutions (FIs) and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payment and shopping growth.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. A September to Remember. Only very few merchants are actually aware of SCA.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, and they are not pleased. Financial institutions (FIs) need to keep watch for newer schemes as they seek to prevent different forms of fraud, such as money laundering, on their online platforms. Synchrony Financial Upgrades Its AML Strategy As Fraud Grows.

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FICO

JANUARY 19, 2022

From TBML to BNPL to NFTs, 2021 found fraud and financial crime professionals dealing with a plethora of new challenges and criminal schemes. Our five most popular posts of the year dealt with trade-based money laundering, non-fungible tokens, buy now pay later scams, courier scams and good old credit card fraud. Here are excerpts.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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FICO

JUNE 14, 2021

Invitations to buy even the smallest items on an installment plan seem to be everywhere online, and in-store, too: called “buy now, pay later” or BNPL loans, these offers let consumers buy what they want, now, and pay for it over time in four equal payments. BNPL: Even the smallest purchases can now be broken into bite-size chunks. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Compliance and regulatory issues remain top of mind, of course, but so does the overall experience of both buyers and sellers. Expectations can differ from region to region regarding timing of payments, taxes, currencies, regulatory differences – and we look at all of those variables.”. Drilling Down Into Online Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

“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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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Plaid acquired ID verification and KYC/AML compliance platform Cognito Mitratech Holdings acquired compliance risk and vendor management solution Continuity Mitek acquired KYC onboarding and analysis solution HooYu Equifax acquired post-transaction fraud solution Midigator. Reg & Risk: Still Showing Up For Surprise Quizzes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Latin America is often considered to be the world leader in electronic invoicing thanks to government mandates, but the Asia Pacific region is quickly gaining steam in its eInvoicing efforts, too. And beyond government efforts, FinTechs in the private sector are also promoting eProcurement digitization in the region. On Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Ensuring SCA compliance should be part of a larger effort to determine that a payments strategy is secure, cost-effective and satisfies user expectations for convenience and trust. The goal is for merchants to think about how they will manage the SCA transition, and to develop a fraud and exemption strategy. Friction So Far.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Compliance with AML, KYC and sanctions requirements continues to be a key focus area for financial institutions under pressure to implement a robust and agile compliance program that ensures legal requirements are met at both a regional and global level,” said Rob Hartley, VP of product at Trulioo , in a press release announcing the enhancements.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

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. Treasury Department announced Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online. Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S.

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Tech and Finance

JUNE 16, 2020

Trulioo’s mission is to provide verifiable identities for everyone to advance financial inclusion while building trust online, the company’s release said. It provides secure access to hundreds of identity networks around the world to help meet compliance requirements, mitigate the risk of fraud, and increase trust and safety online.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

A February 2018 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that 75 percent of American financial institutions incurred losses due to fraud last year. The company recently released its online and physical dynamic probability scoring technology, which claims 99.99 DPAs Prepare for Looming GDPR Deadline .

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud. Pixelon: Online video vaporware.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 3, 2014

His comments are not only applicable to his geographic region, but for sole props and firms across the country. In the wake of several widely publicized fraud scandals over the last dozen or more years, such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, regulation of the accounting industry has come to the forefront of the public’s attention.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He added that Red Dot’s ties with Temasek , the Singaporean government’s investment fund, also gives the company unique access and insight on a range of regional businesses. For instance, Red Dot recently took a stake in EverC , which deals with fraud detection and compliance on the merchant side. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

So it is perhaps with a bit of irony that the eCommerce behemoth known as Amazon , via its Web Services division (AWS), has positioned itself as offering a way for local and regional financial services providers to craft new products, enter new markets and meet the regulatory requirements necessary for worldwide competition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The freelance market is also expanding in Europe, with one study indicating that gig economy workers conduct approximately 20 percent to 30 percent of all jobs in the region. One recent report found that 57 million freelancers are expected to operate in the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The product is designed to remove friction from the user onboarding process, while also preventing online identity fraud and meeting know your customer (KYC) compliance as well as anti-money laundering (AML) rules. Why Super Apps Could Have Superpowers. Everyday apps don’t have to do everything.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Its effects will likely have far-reaching consequences, too, for both EU-based companies and those that operate outside the region. That might involve a meeting where the firm’s IT officials or owners are informed of their business’ non-compliance. Even with the deadline looming, many businesses are seemingly unprepared. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

Obstacles such as regulatory challenges, compliance with standards like GDPR and trade concerns were among the top reasons that companies were unable — or chose not — to go global. Activity in the online gambling space has been heating up, especially since the World Cup began. What holds companies back from going global? AvidXchange.

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