PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

The operators of the website were accused of “engaging in a wire fraud scheme seeking to profit from the confusion and widespread fear surrounding COVID-19.”. Bash from the Western District of Texas said they moved quickly against the site. The action was filed in Austin on Saturday (March 21). Attorney John F.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

A Texas operator of several payment processing centers has agreed to be permanently banned from the industry in order to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the state of Ohio that they unlawfully participated in scams, according to a press release. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”. New technology often starts out at the U.S.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Banks are reinventing not only their infrastructure but their operating models, too, in order to win on the battleground of customer experience. Rob Palacios, EVP and Director of TCB Labs at Texas Capital Bank, sat down with Yousef Hashimi from IBM at Money2020 to discuss the banks’ work around AI and their use of the IBM Garage.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

As noted last week, some regulators, spanning the United Kingdom, North America and Asia, are seeking those exemptions as they contend that the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) could stymie cross-border law enforcement actions that focus on fraud and manipulations of markets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently filed a complaint in a Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged four operators of a purported international digital-currency “Ponzi scheme” with money laundering and fraud. A month earlier, the U.S. The Pandemic Is Making Scams Worse .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

According to ValueBank Texas CEO Scott Heitkamp, the SBA’s initiative is “another attempt for credit unions to get [into] the commercial lending business,” raising concerns that credit unions could take away market share from banks. Not everyone is on board with the effort, though.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Account takeover fraud , card-not-present (CNP) fraud, tax fraud, selling stolen financials, selling fake bank accounts, the Dark Web: If security experts are fighting it today, chances are that Brett Johnson was there when it started. The family lived in eastern Kentucky, an area Johnson describes as “fraud central.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

13) about “suspicious activity” on the city’s networks, and then later told residents that it had “activated its Emergency Operations Center.”. Emergency resources like 911 and fire rescue were still operational, the city said. In August, 23 Texas towns were hit in a coordinated attack. The attack started at 11 a.m.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

PYMNTS recently spoke to Dustin Hemesath, FanFood’s co-founder and national sales manager, about the company’s position in the industry and how it meets logistical and security challenges. The app was initially available at just six locations in California, Iowa and Texas, but now caters to more than 60 across the United States.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

in an effort to win contracts to engage in currency exchange operations for the government. Gorrin, who is 49, is accused of buying jets, yachts, champion horses and luxury watches in Florida and Texas with the ill-gotten gains. Reuters noted that in September Gorrin was named a fugitive.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

In a press release , the restaurant chain operator said it was notified on August 16, 2018, by federal authorities that a legacy point-of-sale system for some of its Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants, a brand acquired by Darden last year, may have been compromised via a hack that involves restaurants in 23 states.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Accents also presented a problem for the Texas-based chain, as voice recognition tools have historically had trouble interpreting certain dialects. Its AI-enabled chatbot , Dom, was combined with voice-activated technology in 2014, allowing customers to place orders the same way they would with a live operator.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Albertsons will convert its existing pharmacies to Rite Aid stores, while current Rite Aid locations will operate as standalone pharmacies. Together, the company will operate around 4,350 pharmacy counters and 320 clinics across 38 states and Washington, and will be worth around $83 billion. That comes as 16.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

The passing of Virginia’s law was followed by similar legislation in Texas, clearing the way for even further adoption. Securing the Signatures. As part of that KBA process, notaries collect personal information, including a participant’s driver’s license and partial or whole Social Security number.

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FICO

JANUARY 30, 2017

I talked about using the FICO fraud data consortium to determine when data shifts can invalidate the models and, more menacing, when these shifts reveal subtle new fraud patterns that can indicate the work of fraudsters and cyber criminals, who know how to go “low and slow” to evade detection.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4 But security is an ever-present concern. However, our research continues to show that security remains a key concern for all mobile payment users.” And The Brits Are Already Well On Their Way.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

While many think of trade, commerce, and cultural exchange when considering this region, ignoring the undertow of illicit activities is impossible—the border remains a hotspot for drug trafficking, illegal arms trade, human trafficking, and smuggling operations, necessitating vigilant scrutiny and transaction monitoring within the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Square was a newbie, largely written off as a wrought-with-fraud business model that would never survive and scale. The book is short – 144 pages – and was adapted from a commencement speech he gave to the University of Texas graduating class in 2014 shortly after his retirement. Special Ops.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

During the pandemic, the Fed bought up massive numbers of mortgage-backed securities, with banks enjoying unprecedented sales levels and gain on sales margins. The days of people coming in to cash their Social Security checks—those are pretty much gone. You don’t go to school to learn how to become head of deposit operations.

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Abrigo

JULY 1, 2022

As stated in the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) priorities , human trafficking networks use a variety of means to move illicit proceeds, ranging from cash smuggling by individual victims to sophisticated cash operations through professional money laundering networks and criminal organizations. Check Fraud. Learn More.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

APRIL 2, 2015

This is why I was so interested to see USAA Bank (based in San Antonio, Texas), a bank that is well-known for being highly focused on customer service and innovative in the use of new technology to improve the customer experience, roll-out face-recognition for mobile phones using the technology of one of Consult Hyperion’s clients, Daon.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (“DoBS”) just released Guidance declaring that virtual currency, “including Bitcoin,” is not considered “money” under the Pennsylvania Money Transmission Business Licensing Law , otherwise known as the Money Transmitter Act (“MTA”). Ultimately, in Texas, “it depends.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a $460 million deal, Texas-based ATM operator Cardtronics has acquired Canada-based DirectCash Payments. Though usage remains low, Mastercard reported this week that it has seen an overall decrease in fraud since the EMV change. Big handshakes. Cardtronics acquires DirectCash Payments. Ready, set, ACH. The blockchain.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 13, 2023

Although migrants knowingly engage with smugglers wittingly, they can become victims of this crime, as evidenced by the San Antonio, Texas discovery in June 2022 of 53 migrants—including children—who died in a tractor-trailer as they attempted to enter the United States illegally. How human smugglers operate. Fraud Prevention.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

03:04 pm Experian Fraud & Identity – https://www.experian.com/decision-analytics/identity-and-fraud/fraud-and-identity.html – @Experian – Adam Fingersh – GM and SVP, Fraud and Identity Solutions & John Sarreal. operation of Russian-based company. Another Texas-based payment tech company.

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FICO

APRIL 17, 2021

Computer systems are not yet ready for operational use (though the IBM® 7090 is the butt of multiple jabs throughout the movie). In the film, volatility levels in mortgage-backed securities are exceeding historical levels. (Chernin Entertainment). Margin Call is based on the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The Weinstein Company).

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