PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

But, Atassi said, Latin America is also a challenging region to take on as a whole because nation-by-nation and vertical-by-vertical, the situation on the ground can vary quite widely in terms of infrastructure, consumer interest and regulatory prerogatives. And accurately, he noted, doesn’t just mean they lock out fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

Hackers are on the lookout for new ways to attack, and now it looks like developing nations may be a favored conduit. In one example, malicious software is being traced to India, where once it would have been more readily housed in the United States. Looking for new hotbeds of innovative malfeasance?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) — chiefly for a new watchdog group — the proposed regulatory regime is intended “harness the full potential of digital markets, driving greater competition and innovation,” according to a CMA statement. The watchdog would be known as the Digital Markets Unit.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The United States may have some of the world's best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2020

Key Takeaways Elderly persons are more susceptible to fraud during crises like the coronavirus pandemic. As the coronavirus pandemic takes a powerful hold on the United States, illicit activity such as cybercrime, check fraud, and other scams are rapidly increasing and is expected to continue throughout this difficult period.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Countries with the most sizable count of BTMs are developed nations like Britain, Canada and the United States. There, people need to change a nation's money for cryptocurrency that isn’t regulated by a government or connected with it. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 14, 2022

On July 8, with limited fanfare, the Department of Treasury issued a request for public comment regarding the March 9, 2022 Executive Order entitled “Ensuring Responsible Innovation in Digital Assets” (the “Order”). leadership in the global financial system and economic competitiveness; financial inclusion; and responsible innovation.”

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As stated by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), transaction monitoring and reporting are critical to the United States’ ability to combat financial crime. Get more BSA training on the latest fraud trends with this webinar. Fraud Prevention. Fraud Trends. Watch Webinar.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On January 1, 2021, the Senate voted into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The BSA , adopted in 1970, has not had a significant overhaul since the USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) in 2001 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

Loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape, could help promote FinTech in the United States, according to report released Tuesday (July 31) by the U.S. In the United States, U.S. Treasury Department.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Takeaway 1 NBFIs are agile and innovative and are competing head-to-head with traditional financial institutions. NBFIs are agile and innovative and are competing head-to-head with traditional financial institutions. Sanctions requirements Sanctions apply to everyone in the United States, even individuals. DOWNLOAD .

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

The Russian national behind global banking malware that was responsible for stealing money from bank accounts across the U.S. Nikita Kuzmin, who created the “Gozi” malware, pled guilty to various computer intrusion and fraud charges back in May 2011, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

And that shift has persisted throughout a year where mobile and digital expansion and innovations have been a rare bit of bright spot in an otherwise incredibly challenging environment. Digital Innovations Will Outlast the Pandemic That Inspired Them. Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. I don’t see that slowing down.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. Perhaps it isn’t surprising that analysts are now musing about how to avoid a repeat of the Punjab National Bank fraud scandal, and some are looking towards blockchain to do so. United States.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is tasked with protecting the financial system both within the United States and internationally. Financial criminals are working hard, using technology and innovation to their advantage, to stay one step ahead of FinCEN and financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Visa ’s fiscal first-quarter results displayed an acceleration of cross-border volumes, while contactless payments continued to gain traction in the United States and beyond. Old forms of cybersecurity are not sufficient to keep pace with fraudsters’ increasingly innovative attacks. 29), has Penn National Gaming Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Amid the announcement of a new cryptocurrency – that would be Libra – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which operates as global regulatory firm based in Paris with a membership roster of countries such as China and the United States, has said it will boost its examination of digital currencies with an eye on money laundering.

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Abrigo

JULY 16, 2021

FATF is the global watchdog for AML/CFT activity, and it is important to note that the United States shows full support in global efforts by their recent priorities release. financial system and national security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

PYMNTS recently spoke to Dustin Hemesath, FanFood’s co-founder and national sales manager, about the company’s position in the industry and how it meets logistical and security challenges. The app was initially available at just six locations in California, Iowa and Texas, but now caters to more than 60 across the United States.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. Award – goes to CNBC’s Jim Cramer , who lamented that banks should have been innovating offerings like those delivered by PayPal and Square.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

In a presentation titled “Sailing the Cyber Sea” at Innovation Project 2017, retired Admiral Jim Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, stated that “we are [at] sea … but let’s drill down a little bit and point out the magnitude that is just increasing almost exponentially in terms of the surface of risk.”.

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FICO

JANUARY 5, 2023

The CFPB's New Open Banking Proposal Will Accelerate Exciting Product Innovations. For several years now, FICO has recognized the potential of new scoring innovations leveraging consumer financial account data. The CFPB’s Section 1033 rulemaking will only fuel further innovations as open banking takes a stronger hold in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Rather, as Verifone CEO Paul Galant told Karen Webster in a recent interview , at that moment, industry, legislative and consumer attention all converged into a perfect storm that made EMV bigger than the card counterfeit fraud it was created to fight. Nationwide, there are roughly 2 million chip-enabled businesses, and 1.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

We say defense because it was apparent from early in the hearing that the senators gathered were more than a little suspicious of Facebook’s latest innovation — and less than favorably inclined to letting it move forward. He said the U.S. Marcus went on to reaffirm Facebook’s commitment that it would not look to bring Libra online in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

As LendUp CEO Sasha Orloff and Beneficial State Bank Co-CEO Kat Taylor told PYMNTS in a recent interview, banks and FinTechs need each other, and a very large segment of the population living on the margins of financial services in the United States need these two groups to work together as well. “I percent to 29.99

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

How many Libertarians do you think there are in the United States? We think that Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, and the Federal Reserve, and the rest of “them”, whoever “they” are, are centralized monoliths running on papyrus and holding back innovation. despite such a site being a strong technical and market innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s been an exceptionally busy year within the Faster Payments Tracker ecosystem, with plenty of news in the United States and around the world. According to research from LexisNexis, fraud is expected to reach $7.2 The risk of fraud is prompting eCommerce companies to seek out IoT solutions against cyberattacks.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. ‘AI nationalism’ could fuel political conflict. AI oversight must be an informed, national debate. Gideon Rosenblatt. Jon Wolfsthal.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Accusations of fraud and mismanagement, and criticisms of the government’s decision to invest in Solyndra, were rampant in the days following news of Solyndra’s impending bankruptcy proceedings — but the core mistake here involved ignorance of a key aspect of Solyndra’s business.

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