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Authenticating Combines Verification Services To Prevent Identity Fraud

PYMNTS

Authenticating.com is working to combat identity fraud by combining different solutions to securely automate and outsource identity verification and fraud prevention as a service. billion in losses due to cybercrime, with various forms of identity fraud topping the list.

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How Banks Are Using AI, ML To Fight Account Opening Fraud

PYMNTS

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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Recap of Money 20/20 USA 2023 and 10 Banking Thoughts

South State Correspondent

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. Fraud & Identity: By far, the largest number of vendors and conversations were over fraud and identity. Maybe a topic for next year?

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

PYMNTS

And that fact — shared by Cognito CEO Alain Meier during a recent PYMNTS interview centered around changes in digital ID – serves to show the weakness of knowledge-based authentication. “We Meier said there is serious pressure to move further away from knowledge-based authentication methods and even Social Security numbers.

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Enforcing AML/KYC Compliance When Legal Precedent Does Not Apply

PYMNTS

What is new is the way in which the technology is being incorporated into businesses’ broader efforts to comply with relevant AML/KYC regulations to help mitigate identity theft and fraud and the legislation being adopted to support those technologies and govern the ways they are implemented.

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IdentityMind On The Need For FinTech Compliance Marketplaces

PYMNTS

Might an on-demand mindset benefit those tech upstarts when tackling issues like fraud and anti-money-laundering (AML)? There also is what is being billed as a “plugin knowledge base” that offers implementation and reference guides, along with videos. Call it an à la carte approach — a pick-and-pay process.

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Why Strong Digital Identity Verification Is Key To Meeting AML Requirements

PYMNTS

As banks and payments companies endeavor to meet anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to avoid hefty fines for non-compliance, easily identifying customers in the digital channel becomes paramount to their success. Clark said that because of this physical aspect of ID fraud, one of the biggest risk factors has become the human factor.

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