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Worldpay On Modernizing Security Defenses To Foil eCommerce Fraud

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The European Union’s long-anticipated 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), which modernizes security rules to reflect the needs and threats facing today’s economy, took effect in mid-January, and its impacts are already being felt across the payments space. Fiat-focused digital wallets must also boost their security.

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Main Street Lending Program Broadened to Attract More Lenders, Borrowers

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Key Takeaways The soon-to-begin Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) aims to fulfill a need for mid-sized businesses to access relief funds amid the coronavirus pandemic. If a business secured a PPP loan, it is still eligible to apply for an MSLP loan; however, MSLP loans are not forgivable. Fraud Prevention. Learn More.

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Study: COVID-19 Fraud Reaches $100M

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losses from COVID-19 fraud and ID theft have reached nearly $100 million since the pandemic emerged in March, according to Reuters. These states accounted for one third of more than 150,000 instances of COVID-related fraud reported nationally by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since mid-March. million to date, according to the FTC.

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Fraud in UK at level where it ‘poses national security threat’

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UK Finance says £754m stolen from bank customers in first half of 2021 as scammers capitalised on Covid Fraud victim scammed for almost £25,000 Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Fraud in the UK has risen to a level where it poses a “national security threat”, according to the main banking body, with £754m stolen from bank (..)

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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. Getting security right also means balancing customers’ security and privacy concerns. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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eCommerce Fraud Presents A $12 Billion Problem

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With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. According to online security company Signal Sciences , eCommerce retailers deal with an average of 206,000 web attacks per month. “The The main offender, constituting 29.8

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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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