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Five At Five: France Aims To Tax Big Tech

PYMNTS

NCR makes a fraud prevention move, Airbnb landlords get a hefty fine, Amazon does a split take and a transit startup lands a big investment. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region. NCR Buys StopLift To Prevent Retail Fraud.

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Cyber, Fraud, Compliance Predictions in 2020

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At long last, fraud and compliance infrastructures are starting to converge. This regulatory pressure is happening in other regions as well. Fraud and Compliance Infrastructures Converge. I predict that in 2020, fraud and compliance functions will converge at many large banking institutions. by Doug Clare.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The NYC Amazon HQ That Will Never Be

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Reports indicated that four Amazon executives met in Governor Cuomo’s office with “the presidents of the New York State AFL-CIO, a regional chapter of the Teamsters and his group, as well as some officials from the governor’s office.” Visa also said that counterfeit fraud dollars went down by 48 percent.

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London B2B FinTechs Win Big As Market Preps For Disruption

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The new funding will help the company expand geographically in the U.S., with plans to open an office in New York City later this year. ’s AimBrain deploys biometric authentication technology to combat fraud for FinTechs and financial institutions. Enterprise Security. Corporate Accounting.

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Getting Past ‘Standard’ To ‘Fair’: Tech Brings Efficiency To Mileage Reimbursements

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That’s not so say that everyone involved with mileage reimbursement is a crook (though, of course, mileage fraud does persist). Per-mile driving costs can vary greatly, depending on geographic location — say, for instance, the relatively wide-open spaces of the Midwest versus the crowds and chaos of New York City or San Francisco.

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Worldpay Transforms Merchant Onboarding with FICO Platform

FICO

Senthil Erulappan, senior manager of product engineering at Worldpay, added: “FICO’s DMP has helped us consolidate multiple underwriting processes and solutions across the enterprise into a centralized underwriting/decision management platform that can scale across verticals, product lines and regions.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. And others disappear forever.

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