PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

According to Mexican regulators, the two companies in charge of the country's credit and debit settlements represent "a near monopoly," and big businesses need to sell shares in those companies, the Associated Press (AP) reported. In addition, Mexican payment systems often break down and make it more difficult to use cards.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Federal and state authorities are targeting companies that allegedly lend money to small businesses at extreme rates and seek to collect payments with heavy-handed tactics, NBC News reported Tuesday (Aug. In some cases, NBC News reported, business owners took payments from companies’ bank accounts even after COVID-19 struck.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. Unfortunately, most banks don’t gather fraud data across payment channels or track “pre-crime events.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. Unlike the crypto markets, Wingert said the banking and payments industries continue to be slow to adapt to the challenges of KYC and fraud prevention. In fact, a recent GeoGuard survey found that U.S.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Key Takeaways FinCEN has released three COVID-19-related advisories that remind financial institutions to stay alert to increasing fraud trends. Adjust your scenario thresholds and ensure your front line staff is aware of these fraud red flags to help detect and deter COVID-19-related fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The number of real-time payments has risen dramatically in recent years, and APP fraud has grown alongside it. Bad actors typically perpetrate APP fraud in several ways. APP Fraud Ramps Up. Instances of APP fraud around the globe have continued to rise as real-time payment rails extend their reach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

A recent survey revealed that 93 percent of United Kingdom gaming compliance managers anticipate growing numbers of chargebacks and fraud as the pandemic prods consumers to access online services. Gaming platforms were facing increasing instances of fraud before the pandemic began. Fighting Back Against Gaming Fraud .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

In the April Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest security efforts from providers to crack down on fraud, and the emerging use cases where IoT tech can be applied — if consumers are willing to give it a chance. For more on these and other IoT news items, download this month’s Tracker. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

billion — 91 percent — of those penalties, while European regulators demanded $1.7 FinTechs could face these same financial pains as regulators increasingly demand that they follow the compliance rules to which FIs must adhere. A team of analysts can only handle so many potential fraud cases at a time, after all. . million. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Instead, she noted, an estimated $240 billion is going out the door to fraud, waste and abuse (FWA). From those manual reviews, these highly experienced investigators create rules, monitor suspicious activity and collaborate with law enforcement to mitigate fraud in the system, she continued. Modifying the System.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Regulator figures show huge differences in banks’ treatment of fraud victims, from 94% of claims refunded by TSB to 6% at Monzo The shocking disparity in the way the banks refund fraud victims has been laid bare in figures that show TSB refunded 94% of customer fraud claims in full last year, while for Monzo the figure was just 6%.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Falcon X is intended to help pinpoint and probe potential fraud and other financial crimes. “Criminals have exploited the rigid infrastructure that underpins our global financial system. . “Criminals have exploited the rigid infrastructure that underpins our global financial system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Airbnb , the short-term, home-sharing site, has removed a payment system in France that was deemed controversial. The company told the newswire that less than 1 percent of hosts in the country of France use the system. Still, it decided to remove the card, following “concerns [that it was] tied to possible debit card abuse.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At a time when COVID-19 has seen global eCommerce and digital traffic grow by nearly 70 percent, security experts have braced for a commensurate surge in online fraud as the holiday shopping season continues. At the center of all these regulations is the consumer,” he said. The key to this is user experience,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

A recent survey found that one-third of businesses were concerned about fraud in their cross-border payments, with an additional 26 percent worried about data security. Yet, businesses all too often rely on methods such as wire transfers, which are more susceptible to fraud. Accelerating Payments Through Cooperation and APIs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

5AMLD’s impacts include strengthening anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regulations in the cryptocurrency space — something that has not pleased all the affected crypto companies. Worldpay On Modernizing Security To Foil eCommerce Fraud. Around The AML/KYC World. Get the full story in the Tracker.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2024

Regularly review and update policies annually to ensure compliance with current rules and regulations. Implement a check and balance or send policies/procedures through a multi-business review approach to confirm documentation updates and adherence to current rules and regulations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

False positives — instances of potential but uncertain fraud — can significantly gum up the works when it comes to anti-money laundering (AML) efforts, leading to friction and massive manual review that can eat up costs and cut into profits. We all know the system is broken,” he said. The system is not working.”. AI Disconnect.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Going forward, banks should: Implement AI-driven systems to streamline credit decision processes, reducing decision times, and enabling faster responses to loan applications. By ensuring compliance with regulations, banks mitigate risks and maintain trust with customers and regulatory authorities alike.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A proposed law aims to completely overhaul the student loan system by having monthly bills automatically deducted from borrowers’ paychecks. set a new record, hitting $1.465 trillion, and is expected to reach $2 trillion by 2022. Alexander said the regulation would not only simplify the student loan system, but protect borrowers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And new regulations are taking root or are on the horizon to help protect consumers, their data and how that data might be used. At the same time, banks and other firms must find new ways to verify and authenticate users and gird against theft and account takeovers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A recent study from PwC found that 47 percent of companies had experienced fraud at least once in the past two years, with a grand total of $42 billion in funds stolen over this period of time. There were 223,163 cases of identity theft that year across all generations, with 42 percent of them consisting of bank and credit card fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Partners Against Crime: Visa Leads Effort to Fight Fraud With New Dynamic CVV Codes. Visa and Keyno have pioneered a new effort to serve dynamically generated security codes to fight card-not-present fraud, called dCVV2. The news of a COVID-19 vaccine on Nov. But a new PYMNTS study of 2,800 U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Many financial institutions are achieving this state of vigilance by investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions as part of their anti-fraud efforts. . Searching For A Financial Fraud Needle In A Haystack .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The wire service said a Robinhood statement indicated that the company’s internal systems were not compromised and that they are “actively working with those impacted to secure their accounts.”. 9) that hackers may have gained information about customers' personal email accounts, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

The deputy chief of Iran’s central bank was dismissed from the position and arrested as part of the government’s crackdown on financial fraud, according to reports in The News Tribune on Sunday (Aug. in 2012 that challenged SWIFT’s position as a neutral player in the global financial services system.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Facebook could face coordinated regulation by nine countries after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to be questioned by an international committee on fake news. According to a report in the Financial Times , members of parliament from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, France, Belgium and the U.K.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

financial system. financial system, and regulators will expect it. financial system, and regulators will expect it. The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have extensive networks that smuggle narcotics, including marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, into the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

If it seems like cases of fraud and hacking are always in the news, that’s because new incidents pop up practically every day. According to the new Digital Fraud Tracker , total losses due to fraud equaled $4.2 According to the new Digital Fraud Tracker , total losses due to fraud equaled $4.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. Top News . US Retailers Confront Data Privacy Shifts (Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payment Regulations). J.Crew Shelves Madewell IPO After Deal Crumbles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire and founder of Alibaba, expressed concerns technology companies will be harmed by increased regulation coming out of Europe. With lawmakers and regulators around the world clamping down on technology companies, the European Union has become one of the fiercest critics of tech companies.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Takeaway 2 Banks should be proactive in understanding fraud trends and FinCEN priorities to prepare for future rulemaking. The next expected rulemaking will revise FinCEN’s customer due diligence (CDD) rule to bring current regulations in line with the first two rules. billion to fraud in 2021, a 70% increase over the prior year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Against a backdrop where CNP transactions are up 80 percent, a success rate of only a few percentage points can yield a lucrative fraud scheme. CNP fraud, Nolte said, has become a numbers game. In illustration of other lines of defense, he pointed to Entersekt’s own smart messaging systems.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As well, successful criminals know that their targets are often complex systems — and complex systems offer many opportunities for financial fraud and massive theft. Welcome to the world of advertising fraud. Even so, Xie said, better cooperation could help prevent more of the particular type of fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

Identity verification solutions provider GIACT Systems has announced the launch of gOFAC Monitoring, a new Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) compliance solution to eliminate false positives and boost compliance processing.

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