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AML
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1.4KDeep Dive: Securing P2P Apps Against Scams And ATOs
A need for faster and easier ways to pay during the pandemic has quickly made peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps popular among U.S....
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1.8KHow Alipay Works To Thwart Payments Fraud
A small lapse in judgment can cost consumers big when transacting via payment apps, but having users jump through security hoops creates...
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3.0KNew Report: How Alipay Fends Off The Fraudsters
Consumers and retailers have become more wary of handling physical cash during the COVID-19 pandemic, spurring some to turn to mobile payment...
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2.0KFIS, FICO Take Aim At Dirty Money With New AML Product
Financial software and technology giant FIS is teaming up with credit scoring company FICO to roll out a new anti-money laundering (AML)...
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3.7KFixing Banks’ AML Achilles’ Heel — Before The Fraudsters Pounce
In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. may stand as Exhibit A here....
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2.9KDeep Dive: How FIs Can Upgrade Authentication Measures To Foil Fraudsters’ Open Banking Attacks
Open banking may soon become table stakes for financial institutions (FIs) — they need to act now and be able to offer...
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4.8KFostering FinTech-FI Trust With Data-Driven Security
Open banking can unlock seamless payment experiences for legitimate customers, but also for money launderers as well. As a result, many financial...
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5.8KNEW REPORT: FinTech’s Role In Keeping Open Banking Secure
Financial institutions (FIs) are working during the pandemic to provide speedy digital services while fighting off the rise in fraud attempts. Small-...
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2.3KDeep Dive: Identifying ID-Free Individuals With Mobile, Biometrics
Natural disasters, war and other emergencies can force people to evacuate their communities and flee their homes. Individuals rushing to escape danger...
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2.5KHow A Local Lens For Risk Analysis Can Fight Global Money Laundering And Fraud
Knowing what fraud risks challenge a merchant sector in the U.S. is not enough to safeguard that sector in other markets —...
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6.3KGlobal Payments: Taking A Localized Approach To Fighting Fraud
Regulators are passing stricter policies, as well as cracking down on anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and sanctions noncompliance. Fines...
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3.4KEx-US Bank Risk Officer Fined Over AML Compliance
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has fined Michael LaFontaine, former chief operational risk officer at U.S. Bank, a subsidiary of U.S....
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7.1KDeep Dive: Payment Service Providers Level Up KYC, AML Strategies
Payments companies are stepping into increasingly important roles as the global payment processing solutions market is slated to hit $62.3 billion by...
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7.4KWorldpay On Staying One Step Ahead of eCommerce Fraud
The world of eCommerce fraud changes so unpredictably that merchants often struggle to defend against all possible lines of attack — rendering...
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9.3KWorldpay On Modernizing Security Defenses To Foil eCommerce Fraud
The European Union’s long-anticipated 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), which modernizes security rules to reflect the needs and threats facing today’s economy,...
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3.4KSwedish Regulator Investigating SEB Over AML Issues
A Swedish regulator has opened an investigation into SEB, one of Sweden’s largest banks, over an increasingly volatile money-laundering scandal that has...
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3.1KEU Calls For Anti-Money Laundering Reforms
European Union finance ministers on Thursday (Dec. 5) agreed on strategy for anti-money laundering (AML) reforms and countering the financing of terrorism,...
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3.9KSEB Says No Action Needed On Flagged Bank Accounts
SEB believes there is no need to take further action after the bank was accused of having links to suspected money laundering...
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2.5KECB: Malta’s Bank Of Valleta Failed To Detect Money Laundering Risks
The European Central Bank (ECB), the main banking regulator in Europe, has revealed that Malta’s biggest bank failed for years to detect...
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3.2KFinCEN Releases Advisory On FATF’s List Of AML/CFT Deficiencies
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued an advisory to announce an updated list of jurisdictions with anti-money laundering (AML) and...
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6.3KDeep Dive: The Benefits And Limitations Of Video-Based KYC For FIs
FIs cannot afford to be lax with KYC and AML procedures, and their handling of sensitive information means they are held to...
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2.1KHow Zillow Fights Real Estate Fraud
The real estate industry is a hot target for fraudsters, who launder $1.6 trillion a year through rental payments and home purchases....
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7.0KZillow: Tackling Real Estate’s $1.6T Money Laundering Epidemic
Governments are tightening know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements on various industries out of increasing concern over fraud threats....
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3.2KFinCEN Head: FinTech Firms Must Follow AML Laws
The head of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has warned FinTech firms that they must abide by anti-money laundering (AML) laws....
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3.5KDeep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud
Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal...
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3.4KBridging The Security Gap To Win Customers’ Trust
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting mobile banking services and that’s a challenge for financial app startups that don’t have long fraud-fighting histories to...
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7.4KHow FinTech Apps Can Ace Security
Businesses that fail to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations risk major regulator fines and irreparable damage...
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3.0KSwedish Watchdog To Publish Results Of Swedbank Probe In 2020
There won’t be any answers until next year regarding the ongoing investigation of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) and money laundering...
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3.7KDeep Dive: ID Verification In The Sharing And Gig Economies
Sharing economy platforms are opening up new opportunities for property owners and travelers. Homeowners can monetize spare rooms and visitors can secure...
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4.2KHow Bitbuy Is Keeping Crime Out Of Crypto
Crypto thefts, scams and fraud cost more than $1.2 billion in Q1 2019 alone. Securing against these threats requires trading platforms to...
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7.3KFighting Crypto’s $1.2B+ Fraud Problem
Regulators are pushing for greater oversight of cryptocurrency, with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force...
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4.5KDeep Dive: Weighing The Use of Biometrics For KYC
Biometric authentication enables processes as simple as unlocking a smartphone and as complex as streamlining airport security checks. With that in mind,...
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3.0KKeeping App-Based Brokerages Secure
Millennials aren’t investing as much as older generations — but engaging with them on their smartphones, which they’re always on, could change...
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4.3KHow FIs Are Taking Anti-Money Laundering Precautions
With one of the world’s biggest money laundering scandals just a few months old, it’s a fitting time to look into the state...
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6.1KGetting Millennials To Put Stock In Trading Apps
Money laundering scandals have rocked the reputations of major financial institutions (FIs) that are consequently launching new efforts to repair their images....
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6.7KDeep Dive: An Automated Approach To The $2T Global Money Laundering Problem
The term “money laundering” is believed to have originated as a result of infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone’s habit of channeling criminally...
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8.9KWhere The UK Fails On Anti-Money Laundering
Hundreds of billions of pounds' worth of criminal funds are laundered through the U.K. each year, while the non-compliant corporations and FIs...
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5.0KRegulator: Nordic Banks Embroiled In AML Scandals Should Stay
The head of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) in Finland has warned that Nordic banks involved in money laundering scandals should be...
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9.7KWhat’s Missing? How Money Launderers In The UK Remain Unchecked
Financial institutions (FIs) must carefully balance staying compliant and keeping their customers safe, all without introducing frictions that could scare customers...
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6.0KEuropean Commission To Create New AML Blacklist
The European Commission vowed to compile a new list of countries that present a money laundering risk by summer as it steps...
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16.7KCanada Cannabis Payments Face Their Own Hurdles
Since last year, when Canada legalized recreational pot in full, the nation became a kind of country-sized lab for how that new...
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7.9KSAFE Banking Act Gains Cannabis-Friendly Spotlight In Congress
Legal marijuana sellers want bank accounts just like any other business. Over the last two years, more than $500 million worth of...
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10.2KHow Prepaid Cards Played A Role In El Chapo’s Global Drug Operation
The story goes something like this: During the reign of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar — estimated to have supplied up to 80...
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13.7KDeep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements
The following Deep Dive examines how the 2008 financial meltdown paved the way for existing AML/KYC practices, and how FIs can work...
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2.8KKeeping Investment Platforms Free From Fraudsters
How can firms with global ambitions balance a smooth authentication process with rigorous AML efforts? In the inaugural edition of the AML/KYC...
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12.0KHow To Keep Investment Platforms AML-Compliant
The global economy offers a wide range of opportunities for businesses to expand their reach, and promote their brands to new markets....
