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Deep Dive: How FIs Can Keep Their Digital-First Innovations Secure

PYMNTS

The banking industry faces many day-to-day business challenges, including competition with digitally native FinTechs and the ubiquitous social distancing restrictions brought on by the pandemic. This increased digital presence also brings a greater risk of digital fraud, however. The Fraud Threats Facing Digital-First Banks.

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Geolocation Puts A Pin In Anti-Fraud Solutions

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With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. It’s great to see the prioritization on innovation with this bill,” Wingert said, calling the AML regulatory changes important. Can you really know your customer if you don’t know their location?”

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Why community banks should partner with fintechs

Independent Banker

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Wirecard Maps Out The True Path To Innovation

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It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. FinTech Partnerships.

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For Credit Unions: Trust, But Innovate

PYMNTS

It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. They very naturally want to see those types of innovations incorporated into their banking relationships. Collaborating with FinTechs could be a an excellent way to level up their offerings to the consumer. For example, 49.1

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How Open Banking, Faster Payments Change Banks’ Fraud Threat

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An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. Yet, each of these strategies to modernization is a double-edged sword, exposing a bank — and, thus, its partners and customers — to a new breed of fraud risks. ” Innovation’s Security Downsides.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs Harness Machine Learning To Approve SMB Loans More Quickly And Safely

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million SMBs operate across the country and account for 64 percent of new jobs. Only 35 percent of such businesses make it past their first decade in operation. One of the most pressing issues plaguing SMB lenders is the risk of fraud. Fraud targeting SMB lenders has increased by 7.3 They represent 99.9 SMB Lending Risks.

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