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Kachkar Charged With $140 Million Fraud

PYMNTS

But the party is over for Kachkar, as Bloomberg reported that the swindler has now been arrested and charged with a $100 million fraud. million Miami Beach home. Kachkar has been charged with eight counts of wire fraud in an indictment unsealed on Friday (Sept. Kachkar used his pharmaceutical company, Inyx Inc.,

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Preventing Application Fraud with Machine Learning and AI

FICO

But how can it best be used to fight application fraud? It was not much before Deep Blue, in 1992, that FICO pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to fight credit card fraud. Fraud losses on US credit cards were reduced by over 70% since the introduction of FICO’s real-time anti-fraud analytics.

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FI Highlight: TotalBank

NCR

Headquartered in Miami, TotalBank is a leading, full-service community bank offering personal and business banking, lending, and wealth management services. TotalBank has proudly served the Miami community for more than 40 years. First off, can you tell us a bit about TotalBank? Anything else you would like to share?

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Fintech Fundings: 17 Companies Raise $4.8 Billion Week Ending April 22

Fintech Labs Insights

P2P lending platform. Ecommerce payments fraud technology. HQ: Miami, Florida. Tags: SMB, small business, lending, credit, underwriting. Source: Crunchbase. SocietyOne. Latest round: $125 million, $25 million Series C and $100 million Debt. Total raised: $158.5 million including $100 million Debt. HQ: Sydney, Australia.

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FinCEN reissues real estate Geographic Targeting Orders

Abrigo

Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance , specifically on how to identify red flags at loan origination. New York City and Miami were the original targets under the first order in 2016. Real estate lending BSA training should include the GTOs guidance. Stay up to the date on emerging fraud trends.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $400 Million Week Ending May 20

Fintech Labs Insights

Along with the usual payment and lending startups, two insurtech companies raised substantial rounds: Embroker ($12.2 EZBob landed a $25 million debt commitmen t to increase its SMB lending. Fraud detection for ecommerece & financial services. Real estate marketplace lending. Total fundings in second quarter hit $8.4

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

Last week, Nacha held its Smarter Faster Payments Conference in Miami, a significant event for over 1,800 bankers and vendors. Unfortunately, most banks don’t gather fraud data across payment channels or track “pre-crime events.” Each type of financial crime has a specific profile.