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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Allen, Chief Compliance Officer, Bank of American Fork, American Fork, Utah. Quick, Vice President of Compliance, First Hope Bank, N.A., Christopher G. Kukla, Senior Vice President, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, N.C.

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U.S. Card Skimming Fraud Grows 700+% in First Half of 2022

FICO

In Oakland, one convenience store customer recently found a card skimmer. This card skimmer, found in an Oakland convenience store, has a recorder that is able to steal personal information found in a card's magnetic strip or chip. Without the PIN to unlock the card data, the fraudster can’t use the card details to make charges.

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. According to Orloff, LendUp and Beneficial State came up with the idea to offer a socially responsible credit card product several years ago, but it only came to market this spring.

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Watch 9 Fintech Startups Pitch at Techstars & Western Union Demo Day (Oct 2020)

Fintech Labs Insights

Description: Alternative credit scoring and lending in emerging markets. Metrics: – LOIs with 3 major non-profits – $80M of aid payments already committed – Another $87M in pipeline – 1% global market share BEFORE full launch. HQ: Oakland, CA. Description: Compliance and investigations platform for tracking money laundering.

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Top 5 Fraud Posts for 2022: Scams, Contactless and Money Mules

FICO

Contactless Payments Fraud – A Sleeping Lion in a Trillion-Pound Market. In Oakland, one convenience store customer recently found a card skimmer. This card skimmer, found in an Oakland convenience store, has a recorder that is able to steal personal information found in a card's magnetic strip or chip. Read the full post.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 HQ: Oakland, California. Payments and commerce solutions for unbanked in emerging markets. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . More than half the total ($46 million) went to Chinese P2P lender Weijinsuo. . Mobile wallet.

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Middle market capital matchmaker. Fixed income markets enterprise software. Tags: Institutions, analytics, BI, compliance, security. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. Lender for solar energy installations. Latest round: $220 million Private Equity. Source: Crunchbase.