PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

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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Abrigo

JULY 22, 2022

Cryptocurrency regulation is on the horizon The ups and downs of the cryptocurrency scene have illuminated a need for guidance for traditional financial institutions. The future of traditional bank involvement and regulations. You might also like this whitepaper, "Understanding Cryptocurrency." DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER. What's next.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

which is based in Nevada, purportedly provides online retailers with fraud detection and prevention technology, according to the statement. “As As alleged in our complaint, Rogas falsely presented NS8 as a successful business by fabricating revenue figures and providing them to investors,” SEC Denver Regional Office Director Kurt L.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We allege that BitFunder operated unlawfully as an unregistered securities exchange,” Marc Berger, director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release. Mehraban, associate regional director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release. “We In a parallel criminal case, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ayoub Jemail has been assigned the role of general manager of business development for the region, the company stated in the announcement on its website. The company stated that it is expanding in the region, seeking new business and also looking to provide more support for existing customers, such as Mashreq Bank.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an impact on open banking developments worldwide as regulators, financial institutions (FIs) and businesses set their sights on helping their current customers rather than future innovations. where regulators have been workshopping potential rules for several years. Seventy percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

With concerns that technology companies can face more regulation, tech stocks were declining all over the globe — with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling 2.9 That has led to concerns that more regulation of the entire tech sector is coming. That has spurred investigations into the matter by regulators and lawmakers in the U.S.

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FICO

MARCH 7, 2023

Home Blog FICO Responsible AI: Are European Firms Ready for the Regulators? There are significant changes coming in Europe, which highlight getting a handle on responsible AI use, with the banking and financial services sector among those that will be most impacted by increasing regulation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Players in the sharing economy must contend with an increasingly complex online payments ecosystem as they move into new regions and attract participants to their platforms. Fraud, Payment Regulations Are Affecting Seamless Payments. I view [Outdoorsy] as the sharing economy 2.0. Outdoorsy is available in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Merchants and customers are now transacting under PSD2 and GDPR in the European Union (EU) — regulations that allow a greater window into how customer data is being used. While these regulations are aimed at increasing consumer trust by allowing them more transparency, many consumers in the region are still adjusting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Banks looking to make the most out of these rare visits must use the latest technologies. Digital-first transformations can improve personalization and operating efficiencies, but they also bring challenges, including adoption-related costs and new avenues for fraud. Hindrances to Digital-First Implementations.

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FICO

MARCH 10, 2022

I’ve been writing recently about the results of our recent global consumer fraud survey. But like most things, it’s not as simple as it sounds, as large customer groups are likely to switch banks if they are dissatisfied with their response to a fraud management incident (more on that in a moment). a biometric).

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FICO

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But European fraud and financial crime have continued to evolve. In the UK, Action Fraud reported several hundreds of cases of people receiving emails claiming to be from the NHS, offering them a vaccine passport, prompting them to click on a link and input their personal and financial details. Accessibility of Deep Fake Technologies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

They face the challenge of offering customers a smooth onboarding process while also remaining rigorous in know your customer (KYC) efforts, taking care to remain compliant with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations that aim to keep criminals from using legitimate operations to move money illegally. News From The AML/KYC Ecosystem .

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gartner focused on technology infrastructure, while Money 20/20 was around fintech and payments. Small Idea – It’s Our Kid’s Technology. It was a sobering thought to realize that we are all really building most of this technology for our kids. Complicated technology sucks, but mortality sucks more. Big Idea – Trends.

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Abrigo

JULY 14, 2023

Takeaway 2 Do you have the right technology to efficiently generate strategic insights now and on an ongoing basis? How has the commercial real estate market performed, and how it is performing today by collateral type in your region/market? Do you have the right technology? Would you like other articles like this in your inbox?

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FICO

JANUARY 22, 2020

There has been a proliferation of real-time payments fraud, as new near-instant payment platforms, including person-to-person (P2P) transfers and mobile payment platforms grow across Asia Pacific. . We recently conducted a survey with banks in the region and found that 4 out of 5 (78 percent) have seen their fraud losses increase.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , the idea behind the project is to use permission-based blockchain technology so credit unions can reach more members that don’t have access to financial services. The blockchain network will be offered to all credit unions around the world later this year, noted the report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, and they are not pleased. Fraudsters are relying on technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to put ever-more-complex schemes to work like bot and automated attacks. Synchrony Financial Upgrades Its AML Strategy As Fraud Grows.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. A September to Remember.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Fraud is a Top Worry. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That sentiment was underscored earlier this month when South Korea said it would delist a number of altcoins from an exchange over privacy concerns – namely, the anonymous nature of the transactions are at odds with the goals of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which include combating money laundering and fraud.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

A February 2018 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that 75 percent of American financial institutions incurred losses due to fraud last year. The company recently released its online and physical dynamic probability scoring technology, which claims 99.99 DPAs Prepare for Looming GDPR Deadline .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. As regulators begin to consider blockchain regulations, many have signaled a desire not to hamper innovation while doing so.

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FICO

JUNE 12, 2020

In comparison to others in the Asia Pacific region, regulation has evolved due to last year’s Royal Commission, updates to the privacy act as well as changes enacted by global bodies such as the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). Like other advanced financial sectors, Australia has a complex and evolving regulatory environment.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Due to new and emerging technologies, changing regulations, and ever-evolving customer expectations, banks and credit unions across the country are taking an assortment of different strategies to achieve their growth goals in 2020. The banking landscape has changed dramatically this decade due to new and emerging technologies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

By attempting to log in to randomly selected devices and securing them, the country hopes to eradicate the weaknesses that could potentially lead to fraud and identity theft for IoT users. Meanwhile, IoT use cases are growing around the world as businesses and consumers become more comfortable with the technology.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Merchants and other online services must be sure these processes are also secure, however, especially as fraud attempts have continued to climb. The financial institution (FI) will be working with a third-party technology provider to support the expansion and digital onboarding solutions it will use.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A series of regulations was established to encourage a safer, more transparent financial services environment following the 2008 financial crisis. Failure to meet AML/KYC requirement challenges can be costly for FIs, too, with regulators issuing heavy fines for lax security practices or failure to devote sufficient resources to oversight.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

Efforts to combat fraud must therefore involve to an enterprise-wide discussion, not solely limited to payments professionals and panels. Payments technology is bringing these far-flung methods together in the spirit of modernization,” Gurz said. You want the overall workflow to remain the same,” she told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Among the enduring promises of computer technology is that it would give the “little guys” — all those Davids struggling to compete in a world full of corporate Goliaths — a new source of strength. Today, if you want to launch a financial services product, very, very few (of them) are regional anymore,” he said. Compliance is key.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. Muller explained that the technology augments existing rails like eCheck and ACH to enhance data capture and transmission to complete a transaction.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

14 deadline — regulators in the majority of EEA countries formally confirmed that they would not be enforcing it, and would instead support a phased rollout of SCA. Many regulators, added Bayliss, have not yet come forward with a timeline or migration plan. Hungary, by comparison, has announced a shorter time frame than the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The creation of digital IDs also has the beneficial effect of helping governments and companies combat financial fraud and money laundering activities. directive has its challenges in a world where, so far, there are no global or even regional standards as to what data can be collected to create, maintain or verify identities.

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