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Tax ID Fraud is Taxing on Financial Institutions

Abrigo

Understanding tax ID fraud FinCrime professionals looking to prevent tax ID fraud, first need to understand the fundamentals of what is happening and their best recourse for prevention. Takeaway 3 If you suspect this type of fraud, file a SAR with the term "tax refund fraud" in the narrative.

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6 Reasons Financial Institutions Are Embracing Risk and Regulation Tactics

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Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness Adopting regulatory risk and compliance practices is not merely a box-ticking exercise. By streamlining processes and ensuring compliance with regulations, banks can reduce the likelihood of errors, fraud, and other operational inefficiencies that could threaten their stability.

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Germany’s DAX-30 Stock Index Tightens Rules After Wirecard Fraud Fiasco

PYMNTS

The implosion of major payments player Wirecard AG amid a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal has spurred an overhaul of Germany’s top stock index. Owner of the DAX-30 index, Deutsche Börse AG announced on Tuesday (Nov. 24) that all prospective members will have to pass a basic profitability standard first, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Nacha Provides Guidance On Voice Payments, Cybersecurity

PYMNTS

The second tool, “ COVID-19 Best Fraud Prevention and Cybersecurity Practices, ” is a Top 10 list of best practices to help companies protect themselves against COVID-19-related cyberthreats. It was developed by the Cybersecurity Response Project Team.

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Can Robots Fight Fraud And ID Theft?

PYMNTS

That’s part of the general thrust of an upcoming PYMNTS webinar with Karen Webster and Sunil Madhu, founder of identity verification and fraud prevention services provider Socure. Granted, human beings are often terrible at that exercise, but the machines can help “identify correlations,” he said. The webinar, scheduled for 1:00 p.m.

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Worried About Digital Fraud Now? Just Wait For The Implants.

PYMNTS

Brain implants are developing to a point that would still seem like science fiction to many — and will almost certainly have impacts on the exercise of payments and commerce. Memory Technology. Manipulation could result in changed settings, causing pain, paralysis or the theft of private and confidential personal data.”.

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 Invoice Fraud, Global In Reach, As GDPR Looms

PYMNTS

Also noted by the site, Ernst & Young’s Global Fraud Survey has set its sights on compliance efforts. Local news stories show that fraud – across payroll schemes and otherwise – remains alive and well across the globe. The remaining 200,000 euros had been siphoned from an account in Ireland.

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