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OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a post on its Toutiao social media account, Reuters reported it said users who linked their accounts via Apple IDs should lower their transaction limits. In addition, AlipayHK and GCash launched a global cross-border remittance service this summer, based on the company’s proprietary blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Thai state-owned oil and gas company PTT and blockchain energy nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) have announced that they are teaming up to build a blockchain-based renewables platform. Pump and dump is a type of fraud that manipulates the price of an asset through a rush of high-volume purchases by fraudsters.

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American Banker

MARCH 18, 2024

Despite fresh waves of online fraud and scams, czars of social media platforms, peer-to-peer networks and blockchain products have renewed ambitions to marry financial services with social apps.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Haiti has seen a blockchain boom. Another initiative, the Blockchain Cotton Project (BCP), is set to help the country produce millions of pounds in cotton. Plastic Bank has partnered with IBM to launch a recycling initiative via blockchain. Plastic Bank has partnered with IBM to launch a recycling initiative via blockchain.

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JUNE 11, 2019

When it comes to authentication, customers largely prioritize convenience over safety, exposing them to fraud, and putting pressure on merchants and financial institutions (FIs) to offer convenient user experiences without compromising security. Another technology giant is leading the charge with blockchain.

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JUNE 24, 2019

As you know, we’ve been looking at blockchain for quite a while, understanding the technology standards, doing pilots with banks and filing a number of patents. That nervousness is not entirely misplaced, Lambert noted, because cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are innovative and extremely new.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit has partnered with the Tron foundation to bring users to Tron. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged a Colorado resident with fraud in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Steemit is a platform where users can be paid to curate and create content.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Employing professionals to build out AI solutions, integrate automation into customer flows, and develop blockchain-based offerings is costly, and banks that lean on these tools to attract customers without implementing the appropriate security protocols could find themselves plagued by fraud or faced with compliance challenges.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Or maybe that cryptocurrencies have yet to go mainstream beyond the headlines because fraud still lurks. Blockchain is taking root as the underlying infrastructure of digital currency issuance, and a broad swath of central banks are examining issuing digital fiat. Keeping An Eye On Fraud. Bitcoin is like a [crypto] 101 version.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

Last week we saw hackers prove there’s no such thing as vacation when there’s consumer data to steal, Wells Fargo continued its great rebuilding with a round of executive reorganization and Canadians said “no thank you” to the blockchain — but very politely, as is their custom. Chipotle will be liable for any fraud that results.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Dutch billionaire John de Mol, who created the reality TV program “Big Brother,” is suing Facebook for allowing fake ads which used his name and image to commit bitcoin-related fraud that swindled 1.7 De Mol’s lawyers accuse the social media giant of failing to prevent the ads, as well as not responding fast enough to complaints.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Experiencing such gains comes with risks, however, as digital IDs have presented new and underexplored avenues for fraud. billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data.

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JULY 23, 2019

The social media giant is now compelled to address a growing number of fabricated exchanges associated with its digital asset, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday (July 23). The Libra ecosystem consists of new rails, the Libra blockchain, built by Facebook engineers.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

This increasingly sophisticated group poses a growing and costly headache to those who value the model, forcing businesses to spend billions on fraud-fighting technologies. Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. million fraud reports in 2018, resulting in $1.48 trillion a year.

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JULY 13, 2020

One of Ponle’s last posts on social media said followers were “worth the pleasures of their labor,” and implored them to “Stop letting people make you feel guilty for the wealth you’ve acquired, especially when you paid in blood, sweat and tears, to have the things that are deemed ‘un-purchase-able’,” Coindesk reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

In other news, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a nonstop social media cheerleader for the notion of building a high-tech ecosystem in South Florida, publicly embraced exploring using cryptocurrency to store some government financial reserves and blockchain to secure processes such as online voting. AMBCrypto reported Wednesday (Dec.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Byrne told CNN Business that the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space — and Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project. Overstock has spent $150 million on its blockchain business, tZero; the company owns 82 percent of the exchange. I perpetrated a fraud.

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MAY 30, 2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday (May 29) that it has obtained a court order to stop a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) allegedly run by Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. which has raised as much as $21 million from investors in and outside the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Despite the pervasiveness of digital identity in everyday life, concerns surrounding digital ID security continue to make headlines, with billions of dollars lost to fraud. South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has approved blockchain operator ICONLOOP’s my-ID system to protect data collected for digital identities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Nacha also pointed to the challenges of manual management, misdirected payments, errors and fraud risks. Automating the flow of payment-related data will support back-office process efficiencies, and address fraud concerns. The solution will deploy blockchain, standardized APIs from Afinis and payments messaging standard ISO 20022.

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MAY 3, 2017

Will adding a social media component, like the one offered by P2P service Venmo, push back against those awkward money requests among friends? Meanwhile, other companies are stepping up their investments in a variety of faster payment options, from blockchain-powered tools to P2P solutions to ACH.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

trillion by 2020, which has prompted some online marketplaces to work on resolving fraud repercussions. Social Media. Online marketplaces might be an obvious source of potential fraud, but the growing popularity of social commerce is also creating a rise in sales of counterfeit fashion on platforms like Instagram.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

With online fraud’s rapid growth into a shady multibillion-dollar annual business, preventing it is becoming increasingly critical for all merchants and consumers. One area where fraud is being fought is within the gaping loopholes in identity authentication. Fraudsters and blockchain. The core issue. It’s a funny thing.

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APRIL 20, 2018

The news comes a few months after the country launched an initiative to identify blockchain scammers. According to reports, the schemers said that those who invested 3 million yuan could earn 80,000 yuan per day. And last month, a U.S. federal court cracked down on four individuals behind a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time. With immediate payments and new business models going mainstream, the payment fraud defenses will be stretched.

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JULY 27, 2017

With 64 percent of Americans having experienced some level of a data breach, Pew Center Research confirms these instances result in a lack of public trust for both institutions and social media sites. From Target to Citigroup , Home Depot and Michaels , retail and financial data breaches have been going on for years.

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JUNE 27, 2017

The increased focus is a good thing — AML laws and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements can help reduce crime, prevent terrorism and mitigate the risk of fraud. The fast-growing rates of fraud is another topic that sometimes keeps me up. However, these requirements can also make operations more challenging for businesses.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

And, far from a lock for the top spot, JPMorgan Chase announced its creation of the blockchain-based JPM Coin , the first major bank-created digital token for real-world use. On the one hand, a move on blockchain isn’t terribly surprising on its own, as JPMorgan has already done that with a variety of investments, including R3 and Quorum.

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William Mills

JUNE 22, 2017

The team also consists of Rachel Morrissey, executive producer of Fintech5, and Mike King, a fintech social media leader and author of Bankwide. Topics include fintech, risk management, blockchain, fraud detection and more. Bank on IT. BAI Banking Strategies. BankSocial.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

9:30 AM – 10:10 AM | Session ID: 6925A and 7504B Digitizing the Flow of Goods, Information and Money with Blockchain. 12:30 PM – 1:10 PM | Session ID: 2020A Trust in Trade: Blockchain for Trade Finance. 12:30 PM – 1:10 PM | Session ID: 2020A Trust in Trade: Blockchain for Trade Finance. Monday, February 11.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2018

The emergence of “fake news” — false stories that gain traction across the internet and social media — has become a major story since the 2016 elections. ” Distil also protects against cyberthreats of web scraping, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, and digital ad fraud. DIGITAL SHADOWS.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I remain sceptical about Bitcoin as a currency while I remain enthusiastic about the potential for blockchain technology (and, indeed, other kinds of blochains and other kinds of virtual currency). ” From Payments Industry’s Focus Turns to Fraud, Security|PaymentsSource at. [From Bankers Debate Bitcoin at Sibos 2014 ].

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Lex Sokolin

MARCH 31, 2021

The second company, Feedzai, does fraud checks at the account opening and payment transaction layer, as well as helps with AML using machine learning. Our third example is Chainalysis, the crypto-ecosystem mapping firm that helps institutional actors like government, asset managers, and banks interact with blockchain-based digital assets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

It has been about a month since Facebook pulled back the curtain on its vision for Libra – a blockchain-backed cryptocurrency with the lofty aim of connecting the 1.7 The concept behind the project is to draw a hard and fast line between the Libra rails and the currency they support – and the social media network that is Facebook.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS. And NCR researchers at the Black Hat conference this week confirmed that story when they presented a way for the bad guys to commit fraud using chip cards. What would is encrypting data at the POS. But those wallets and the exchanges? .

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 28, 2019

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However, markets are socially constructed because they depend on property rights that are socially constructed, and there are many different ways that markets and property rights can be constructed, some of which are unexplored and potentially far better than what we have today. The book interests me for multiple reasons.

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