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Fraud typologies all financial institutions should know

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Can your AML/CFT and fraud staff recognize these fraud typologies? The technology used to perpetrate financial crimes may be changing, but these common fraud typologies aren't going anywhere. This is a nearly 10% increase in complaints received and a 22% increase in losses and thats just fraud that was offically reported.

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Report: $50B In Cryptocurrency Moved Out Of China

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More than $50 billion of cryptocurrency was transferred from virtual wallets in China to other parts of the world last year, a potential violation of the nation’s strict limits on how much money can be sent abroad, according to a new report. Cryptocurrency could be picking up some of the slack.” .

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Cryptocurrency Exchanges Turn To Mobile Verification To Stop AML

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The latest arena for money laundering is through cryptocurrency , a burgeoning market expected to be valued at $1.4 Experts estimate that cryptocurrency-related crimes totaled $4.3 billion in laundered money , with this problem only expected to grow as cryptocurrencies grow more popular. billion by 2024.

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Geolocation Puts A Pin In Anti-Fraud Solutions

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With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. With it, financial institutions need to strengthen their compliance to mitigate the risk of running afoul of the law. Complex Compliance. In fact, a recent GeoGuard survey found that U.S.

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i2c President Says Blockchain Will Unlock Cryptocurrency

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PayPal is opening its network to allow consumers to shop using cryptocurrency. In the meantime, as central banks look toward a rough timeframe of 2025 to get up and running with digital fiat, McCarthy said that over the short term we’ll see more practical use cases leveraging cryptocurrencies — especially in the business-to-business space.

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Love and lies: How financial institutions can help prevent confidence scams

Abrigo

Unfortunately, scammers take advantage of this time to exploit vulnerable individuals through confidence scams, one of the most prevalent and costly types of fraud in the U.S. billion of reported losses due to this type of fraud in 2023 and around 40,000 victims in the United States. Staying on top of fraud is a full-time job.

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The United States May License Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Exchanges

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The Acting Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, Keith Noreika, has stated that he is considering imposing a nationwide licensing program for cryptocurrency exchanges, similar to the licensing program recently enacted in Japan. Last week, Japan’s […].