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US Mobile Adopts Digital Identity Protocols To Protect Against SIM Swap Fraud

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The telecommunications industry is but one of many sectors looking to more securely verify customers and avoid fraud, which remains a growing problem. Robust digital ID verification practices could make many fraud schemes a thing of the past, but many banks and businesses have yet to adopt them. More than 6.2 More than 6.2

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Kount Offers Anti-Fraud Product Aimed At Insurance Industry

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Idaho-based Kount has released a new product aimed at preventing insurance fraud as the industry increasingly turns to digital, and even mobile, setups. The product will also, the company said, protect against identity assumption, bot quotes, and “ghost brokering,” which is when fraudsters use fake documents. In a Tuesday (Aug.

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 Notaries Taking Note Of The Digital Documentation Push

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Notarize, the notary public platform that allows for the remote notarization of documents online, said Thursday that it raised $20 million in a funding round that brings the tally of money raised, cumulatively, to $31 million. Documents are digitally signed by the notary using a special x.509

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Report: EY Whistleblower Called Out Wirecard For Fraud Years Before It Went Bankrupt

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An EY whistleblower has alleged the global accounting firm was warned as far back as 2016 that senior managers at Wirecard may have committed fraud and one had tried to bribe an auditor, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Wirecard paid the Emerging Market Investment Fund 1A 340 million euros ($399 million).

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Venmo Payment Fraud Led To $40M In Losses

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Venmo , the digital money transfer service owned by PayPal , suffered payments fraud earlier in 2018 that played a role in the company posting losses that were higher than forecasted for the first quarter of this year. While that helps reduce fraud, the WSJ noted that real users were also impacted when their transactions were declined.

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Why PDFs Aren't Enough To Digitize The Procure-To-Pay Workflow

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Digitizing documents is key to optimizing workflows, but when it comes to the procure-to-pay space, not all digital invoices and purchase orders are created equal. The result is a lot of paper and PDF documents, which creates a slew of challenges for the procure-to-pay workflow. What It Means to Be Digital. The Opportunity in Data.

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Curbing Digital Advertising’s Big Payments Fraud Problem

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As well, successful criminals know that their targets are often complex systems — and complex systems offer many opportunities for financial fraud and massive theft. Welcome to the world of advertising fraud. As PYMNTS research has documented , advertisers will lose a projected $5.8 It’s highly lucrative,” Xie said.

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