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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift.

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Machine Learning Supercharges Banks’ Efforts To Fight Debit Fraud

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While fraud affects less than 1 percent of all card purchases, consumers who do lose funds from their bank accounts must go through lengthy and often stressful processes to get their money back. Leveraging Machine Learning, Rules-Based Analysis To Fight Debit Fraud. Find more on these and the rest of the headlines in the Tracker.

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GIACT: It’s Time To Fight Back Against Fraud

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Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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Key takeaways from ThinkBIG 2024: Insights for banks and credit unions

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Takeaway 2 The panel encouraged banks and credit unions to change their approach to compliance and technology, getting compliance involved sooner in new initiatives to encourage safe innovation. Takeaway 3 Attracting new and younger customers is a top priority for community financial institutions.

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AI/BOTS: Machine Learning Tips Online Fraud Scales

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From enhancing the supply chain process to learning more about consumers’ shopping behavior, machine learning is a technology that’s at the forefront of retail advancements and innovation. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 million Americans, a 16 percent increase to $16 billion in stolen money.

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Payments is innovating too fast for EMV to be a main solution

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There is no denying that the upgrade to EMV will reduce certain types of fraud by noticeable amounts, but there should be no illusion that this is a “silver bullet” to a growing fraud trend, says The ai Corporation's James Crawshaw.

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Why AI Is MIA In Most FI Fraud Departments

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In the old days, forged checks were the biggest problems that bank fraud departments had to manage. It is no wonder that fraud prevention is one of the problem areas that FIs hope artificial intelligence (AI) can help resolve. Yet, few FIs leverage this technology in their anti-fraud efforts — only 5.5 What’s more, only 12.5

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