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Open banking can unlock seamless payment experiences for legitimate customers, but also for money launderers as well. As a result, many financial institutions (FIs) are reluctant to offer application programming interfaces (APIs) until FinTechs can prove that their integrations won't introduce new risk, says Andrew...
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Knowing what fraud risks challenge a merchant sector in the U.S. is not enough to safeguard that sector in other markets — and that could hurt payments processors operating on a global scale. Different social norms and customer-merchant expectations impact what fraud looks like in...
Regulators are passing stricter policies, as well as cracking down on anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and sanctions noncompliance. Fines related to noncompliance increased 160% between September 2018 and December 2019, in fact. This year also kicked off the implementation of the Fifth...
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has fined Michael LaFontaine, former chief operational risk officer at U.S. Bank, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, with a $450,000 civil penalty for his negligence in failing to intercept breaches of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), FinCEN announced on...
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The world of eCommerce fraud changes so unpredictably that merchants often struggle to defend against all possible lines of attack — rendering old-school tactics like rules engines ineffective. But artificial intelligence (AI)-based behavioral analytics can take over where legacy methods fall short. In this month’s...
