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ACH fraud: Lessons for AML programs from a recent court case

Abrigo

Court case: Credit union held liable for ACH fraud losses A construction company argued the financial institution "failed to establish a reasonable routine" for monitoring suspicious activity alerts tied to ACH. Takeaway 3 Remember that ACH fraud risk also occurs in the placement stage of a fraudulent or money laundering scheme.

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Fed Tackles Fraud On Legacy Rails As New Infrastructure Gains Traction

PYMNTS

Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud. In a sign that RTP adoption is now spreading beyond the biggest banks, Chesapeake Bank , based in Virginia, has looped into The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network. . Federal Reserve Tackles Fraud Across Rails.

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Why community banks should partner with fintechs

Independent Banker

A recent report by Cornerstone Advisors found that bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in three main areas: digital account opening (71%), mobile wallets (41%) and fraud/risk management (47%). Fraud and risk management. Elizabeth Judd is a writer in Virginia. Digital account opening.

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FBI, BBB Sound Another Business Email Compromise Alarm

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was deployed to Kenya to investigate the matter after accounts payable department professionals for Fairfax County, Virginia received an email claiming to be from Dell Computers, requesting that the county reroute pending payments to a different, Ohio-based account. Between Aug. 8 and Sept.

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What to know about erroneous transactions

Independent Banker

Mistakes, system glitches and fraud happen. Direct deposit or bill pay failures, transaction input errors or operating system malfunctions could show up on a consumer’s deposit account statement. Fraud and unauthorized use happen. Mary Thorson Wright is a writer in Virginia. By Mary Thorson Wright.

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Darden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk

PYMNTS

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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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. She effectively ran the bank and its operations. All from Keystone, West Virginia. They feared he would discover the fraud.