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SEC Charges BitFunder Founder With Fraud

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A former cryptocurrency exchange and its founder are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency announced in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. Mehraban, associate regional director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release. “We In a parallel criminal case, the U.S.

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Fixing The KYC And AML ‘Horse-and-Buggy’ Model

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Consider the fact that, as noted in the most recent AML/KYC Tracker produced as a collaboration between PYMNTS and Trulioo , money laundering is estimated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to be an $800 million to $2 trillion-per-year problem, equivalent to 2 percent to 5 percent of the global GDP. A Tech and Mindset Shift.

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LATAM’s Payments Innovation Renaissance

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“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. And accurately, he noted, doesn’t just mean they lock out fraud. Opportunity, he noted, abounds.

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FEMA Looks At Blockchain To Aid Disaster Payouts

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These steps would allow much more rapid liquidation of an insurance policy, including a ‘disaster dividend,’ or a ‘harm’s way’ claim, which could be used to pay for evacuation-related expenses,” the agency stated in its latest National Advisory Draft Report to the FEMA Administrator.

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Governments Fuel Blockchain’s Global Proliferation

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A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. United States. Blockchain may be shaping up to be a topic left to individual states to handle.

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Corporate Money Managers Lose Their Grip

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Most, the bureau noted, involved requests for wire transfers into bank accounts in Hong Kong and China, though 79 nations were identified within these requests, reports said. businesses last year due to cybercrime , a figure that marks a 22 percent increase in cybercrime in the nation, reports from Get Safe Online and Action Fraud said.

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For SEC, Subpoenas No Mere “Token Interest” In ICOs

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If so, some measures come into play – aimed at shielding investors from fraud, and well, unleveled playing fields – that haven’t been in play. What I am hearing from the ecosystem out there is that it seems to be very friendly” and that regulators understand the blockchain tech and the cryptocurrencies.