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Fed Tackles Fraud On Legacy Rails As New Infrastructure Gains Traction

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Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud. PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. Federal Reserve Tackles Fraud Across Rails. The solution supports the need to classify fraud independently of payment type or other payment characteristic.

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How Cannabis Can Become A B2B Payments Innovation Influencer

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Speaking with PYMNTS, Muller highlighted the opportunity that the cannabis space has to adopt payments and other financial technologies that have leapfrogged over legacy solutions. Muller explained that the technology augments existing rails like eCheck and ACH to enhance data capture and transmission to complete a transaction.

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US Finance Crimes Org Calls For Private Sector Innovation

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector companies that have developed tech to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the organization said in a release. FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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Why B2B Payments Can’t Shake Its Anti-Innovation Notoriety

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B2B payments have a reputation for being slow to innovate , though the last couple years has challenged that notoriety. Still, according to the latest Mercator Advisory Group report on FinTech disruption, B2B payments will have to wait a bit longer to see true change from these innovations. B2B Payments Outlook.

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Senate Federal CEO On Protecting Member Trust During Digital Overhauls

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Credit unions (CUs), as much as other financial entities, are seeing a boom in competition as banking moves to online and mobile channels. Customers today expect to be able to access financial services instantly, which can put pressure on CUs that need to stretch restricted technology budgets into innovative new features.

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Chartis RiskTech100 Awards Rank FICO #1 in Innovation and #1 in AI Solutions

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Every year, the financial technology industry eagerly awaits the Chartis Research RiskTech100. This prestigious ranking of the top 100 players in risk technology is determined by Chartis Research , the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for risk and finance technology. What an honor!

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Celent Model Bank Awards 2017: Banking Products Innovation

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Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. Capabilities include accelerated check clearing, enhanced mobile wallets, simplified fraud controls, and streamlined charitable donations. Join us for the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston.