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Navigating the U.S.-Mexico border: Understanding the surge in criminal activity

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Border challenges Incorporating southwest border considerations in your AML program The southwestern border of the United States, spanning 1,954 miles, is more than a geopolitical boundary between the U.S. Such drug operations require significant sums of money to maintain. and Mexico. financial system.

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Europe, CNP Fraud Trendsetter?

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If a data breach is a sprint — where a fraudster grabs as much data as he or she can, as quickly as possible, in an effort to maximize ill-gotten gains — the fight against fraud is a marathon. Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Europe may offer a tell on the fraud to come.

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FBI Director: China Wants To Steal US Tech By ‘Any Means Necessary’

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technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong were both accused of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Auto Lenders Use AI To Drive Safer Real-Time Disbursements

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Financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and other businesses that are looking to enable these rapid payments must therefore ensure that their security and fraud-fighting approaches are up to the challenge. The Deep Dive examines the various fraud schemes threatening these apps as well as how providers are working to strike back.

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BNPL Fraud — When "Buy Now, Pay Later" Backfires

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In this post, I’ll provide a quick overview of how BNPL works, and share my thoughts on how BNPL fraud can occur and where the financial liability lays. . The company says that over half of Afterpay’s customers in the United States are millennials, aged 25 to 40 years old. A BNPL Primer. customers more than double to 6.5

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Sweden Fines Swedbank $386M For AML Missteps

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Sweden’s oldest retail bank will face a hefty $386 million fine for a scandal that erupted last year over the bank’s poor handling of money laundering issues in the Baltic region, according to Reuters Thursday (March 19). Also, Swedbank is under investigation in the United States.

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What Asia-Pacific Can Learn From EU’s Open Banking Initiatives

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Rules like the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been operating for several years in the European Union, for example, but there are different considerations when it comes to online transactions and privacy during a time when most consumers and businesses are operating indoors.