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January 19, 2023
Authentication Is Necessary to Stop Invoice Fraud

Only 38% of businesses are using document and identity authentication tools, leaving most organizations vulnerable to fraud attacks linked to incoming payments. In this month’s “B2B Payments Fraud Tracker®,” Candler...


January 19, 2023
Report: 2022 Saw 50% Spike in Money Laundering Fines

Penalties for failing to stop financial crimes jumped by more than 50% last year. That’s according to a Thursday (Jan. 19) report by the Financial Times (FT), which says the...


January 18, 2023
Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Founder Charged With Unlicensed Money Transmitting

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato has had assets seized and its founder arrested in the United States. Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national who resides in China and is founder and owner of...


January 18, 2023
Crypto Industry Continues Balancing Contagion With Cleanup Post-FTX

Crypto continues battling through a historic shock to its system, while industry lessons accumulate. In just the past two weeks alone, bitcoin (BTC) has risen 30% on the year hitting...


January 18, 2023
News Startup Semafor Looks To Buy Out Bankman-Fried: Report

Media startup Semafor is reportedly seeking to buy out investor Sam Bankman-Fried. The effort, reported Wednesday (Jan. 18) by the New York Times, adds Semafor to a growing list of organizations and...


January 18, 2023
Report: News Startup Semafor Looks to Buy Out Bankman-Fried

Media startup Semafor is reportedly seeking to buy out investor Sam Bankman-Fried. The effort, reported Wednesday (Jan. 18) by the New York Times, adds Semafor to a growing list of organizations and...


January 18, 2023
Coinbase Suspends Business in Japan

Coinbase has put its Japanese operations on hold as the cryptocurrency industry continues to struggle. “Due to market conditions, our company has made the difficult decision to halt operations in...


January 18, 2023
Bank Account Validation Boosts B2B Payments Security, Protects Against ‘Bad...

“It’s always a cat and mouse game between the fraudsters and the ones that are trying to stop them,” nsKnox Chief Operating Officer Nithai Barzam told PYMNTS. The conversation with...



The Path to FinTech Profitability Must Be Fraud-Proof
Threat of Deepfakes Drives Two-Thirds of FinTechs to  Boost Fraud Budgets With rising FinTech fraud and convincing deepfakes threatening their bottom lines, more than two in three FinTechs plan to expand their budgets to deploy tech that can detect true human liveness, as discussed in the latest PYMNTS “FinTech Tracker®,” a collaboration with Sezzle.
Improving Financial Performance: Challenges Driving Spend Management System Adoption
Spend Management Headaches Push SaaS Firms to Automated Systems A new PYMNTS’ survey of 225 SaaS firm executives for the “Improving Financial Performance: Challenges Driving Spend Management System Adoption” report, an Airbase collaboration,  showed that accessing real-time data is so challenging when managing non-payroll spend that 76% said they’d pay for a system to help.