Insights on Business

JUNE 18, 2018

Some important financial technologies are changing the way the world is doing business and that change is now reaching the securities industry. At the SIFMA Fintech Conference this week these powerful technologies will be on display in the Big Apple. Another technology in discussion will be the ever prevailing blockchain technologies.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

prosecutors have filed criminal charges against China’s largest technology company, accusing it of stealing trade secrets and committing bank fraud. government charged Huawei Technologies , two affiliated companies and chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou with bank and wire fraud, as well as conspiracy in connection with business in Iran.

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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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JUNE 14, 2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leading authority on bitcoin, cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICOs) has ruled that some well-known cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities. As such, they can expect to come under the regulatory control of the SEC and relevant securities laws.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s no secret that privacy and security are the prisms through which authorities have looked, and are looking, at Libra and other digital coins. In recent announcements, the numbers have been supporting the argument that cryptos are becoming a favored avenue of theft and fraud. billion in fraud and theft seen last year.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. Rogers added that the data “strongly suggests” that WhatsApp hadn’t been taking security of the app very seriously.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Growing attack-related expenses force businesses to remain vigilant against emerging threats, including phishing and other types of fraud that their own employees may willingly or unwillingly perpetuate. Ensuring Secure Workplace Practices. Other fraud attempts targeting workplaces are no less dangerous. Fighting the Phishers.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This week is International Fraud Awareness Week — but every week is Fraud Awareness Week for FICO, as we focus on helping banks and other financial institutions worldwide detect and manage fraud. Fraud is a big burden for such organizations but there are of course other victims – people just like you and me.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Brokers/dealers were concerned about the potential for consumers to exercise their rights under Regulation E to assert that a transaction was unauthorized up to 60 days after its settlement, despite the fact that securities settlement transactions are exempt from Reg. Beyond Securities Transactions. A Window Of Opportunity.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Security experts are warning about a phishing scam that can help hackers bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). The attack was demonstrated for the first time at the Hack in the Box Security Conference in Amsterdam last month, according to Fortune.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 7, 2017

Unless security systems are implemented thoughtfully and provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s end-to-end security position they’re little more than a distraction, writes Luis Rojas, vice president of product management for cyber fraud and risk management at Bottomline Technologies.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

FIs must certify that the BOI will be held securely and that the FI has received approval from the reporting entity to access their ownership details. Additionally, Director Gacki said at the recent ABA FinCrime Conference that FinCEN welcomes assistance from financial institutions in educating their clients. Beginning Feb.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ongoing security concerns have prompted the Federal Reserve to further scrutinize big tech firms that serve the banking industry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (Nov. The Annual Conference held Nov. 21), citing a senior official. 19-21 is run by The Clearing House (THC) and the Banking Policy Institute (BPI).

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 19, 2019

On March 7, 2019, the DOJ announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases to date. Joined by the FBI and other federal and state partners, the DOJ held a press conference detailing the results of the coordinated effort. The DOJ released an interactive list of the elder fraud cases.

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JULY 30, 2019

Two researchers, Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß, who work alongside Google ’s security initiative Project Zero , have found some “interactionless” malicious bugs in iOS that allow hackers to take control of an iPhone through iMessage without even making the victim engage with the texts or click a link, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

To help repair its damaged reputation, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced on Tuesday (May 24) that it plans to launch a new security plan to help combat ongoing bank heists. The Bangladesh fraud is not an isolated incident … This is a big deal.

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FICO

MAY 18, 2023

The fraud prevention solution is based on FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager and FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS). The fraud prevention solution is based on FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager and FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS). Dock began implementing Falcon Fraud Manager in 2019 and added CCS in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Global banks using SWIFT networks, the global interbank messaging system used to move trillions of dollars each day, are stepping up their security systems amid the rising threat of cyberattacks. The attacks will continue and get more sophisticated,” SWIFT Chief Executive Gottfried Leibbrandt stated during the conference. “I

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MARCH 13, 2017

Emailage, the email risk assessment company, has found that during 2016 $1 billion in fraud was stopped by using technology and a syndicated network of global merchants. With the rapid changes to the payment space driven by mobile devices, EMV and other solutions, online fraud will only continue to rise, said Emailage.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Positive Technologies researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov are warning that new lower-cost payment systems could hurt companies because of security flaws that could enable hackers to steal credit card data or change the value of what people are purchasing. and Europe including Square , PayPal , SumUp and iZettle.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

And that, John Buzzard, fraud executive expert of CO-OP Financial Services told PYMNTS, means that the financial services industry must continue to deal with the challenges and security risks associated with magstripe payments as well. New year, new payments technology, same old mag stripes. The Machine-Learning Hype.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Blanco told bankers and lawyers at a conference Dec. Those of you in this room need to hear and understand that what you do every day makes a difference,” he said during the American Bankers Association/American Bar Association Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Kenneth A.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

This year, at the annual DEF CON conference for hackers — the largest of its kind in the U.S. — These websites are so easy to hack that we couldn’t give them to adult hackers — they’d be laughed off the stage,” said Jake Braun, a former White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, in an interview with ABC News.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

If the changes go through, VASPs will be required to use real-name accounts with their financial transactions with customers, along with provisions requiring VASPs to open real-name accounts with financial institutions, to keep customer data apart from their own and get data security certifications from the Korea Information Security Agency.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’ll be participating in an excellent panel, “ Balancing Fraud Prevention & the Customer Experience ,” at the first virtual edition of CBA LIVE , the must-attend annual event for the retail banking industry. What’s great about virtual conferences is that you can register , today, to attend. Learn from Fraud-Fighting Superstars.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s been a busy 12 months since the last Money20/20, as new technologies and threats have disrupted the security space time and time again. Similarly, the continued steady global increase in the use of mobile devices helped fuel the development and release of new tools to security companies, as well as access to richer, deeper user data.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How Dropbox Fights Fraud. Cloud hosting platforms store vast troves of valuable personal and company information, making them tempting targets for fraudsters — and lax security measures can result in incalculable damage. The Conference Board released a consumer confidence index reading of 130.7 for February, up from 130.4

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FICO

MAY 2, 2019

Fraud and data breaches have always had a close, if destructive, relationship. As the US transitioned to hard-to-counterfeit EMV payment card technology several years ago, criminals flocked to card not present (CNP) fraud , often combining identity fragments and card numbers stolen in breaches to make illicit purchases online.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Identity fraud is nothing to play around with, but you wouldn’t know that given its prevalence in the online gaming sector. With this kind of digital nastiness afoot, game platforms and their payments and technology partners are beefing up security in the space, keeping winners and losers on-screen only. Security Is All Fun and Games.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The FBI has once again sounded the alarm on the proliferation of digital fraud like ransomware and the business email compromise (BEC) scam, releasing new stats on the financial damage such criminal activity has caused in the U.S. 3 individuals were arrested in India for an invoice fraud scam , according to CNBCTV reports this week.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Internet safety authorities uncovered a means of hacking chats on WhatsApp last year, but Facebook has yet to fix the security flaws, The Financial Times reported. Security experts at Check Point said a hacker could change messages and the sender’s identity, “essentially putting words in [someone’s] mouth,” the FT reported on Thursday (Aug.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Britain’s second-largest broadcast company, which is owned by billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global, has been dealing with the problem all week as it discovered that the database in question had never been secured properly. The breach was one of the largest in the U.K. as of late due to the sheer volume of customers affected.

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ZootBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There are more types of financial fraud to manage than ever before—debit and credit card, check, online banking, electronic, ACH—the list goes on. An example is cross-channel or multi-faceted fraud, where information is gained in one channel and used to commit fraud in another, making it even more challenging to combat.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Users demand both ironclad security and seamless login experiences, and biometrics are being incorporated into hardware solutions to meet these desires. The Deep Dive examines the seemingly never-ending arms race between the providers enacting new security protocols and the bad actors creating new techniques to thwart them.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In remarks yesterday to The Clearing House and Bank Policy Institute Annual Conference, Acting Comptroller Hsu discussed the growth “of banking-as-a-service (BaaS),” meaning arrangements in which a nonbank offers banking services to its customers as a way of adding value to its products and services.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Awards will be presented in eight categories: AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Deployment, Customer Onboarding and Management, Debt Management, Fraud & Security, Decision Management Innovation, Financial Inclusion and Regulatory Compliance. Nominations are due December 4, 2020, and winners will be announced January 22, 2021.

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