PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. Unlike the crypto markets, Wingert said the banking and payments industries continue to be slow to adapt to the challenges of KYC and fraud prevention. In fact, a recent GeoGuard survey found that U.S.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Fintechs are partnering with banks, banks are using blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency and financial regulation is still undergoing massive changes. 2017 has been a […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The United States may have some of the world's best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies. Even the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A recent study from PwC found that 47 percent of companies had experienced fraud at least once in the past two years, with a grand total of $42 billion in funds stolen over this period of time. There were 223,163 cases of identity theft that year across all generations, with 42 percent of them consisting of bank and credit card fraud.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This will require being more inquisitive and innovative compared to previous years, as the adoption of AI and cloud technologies continues to expand. To stay ahead, banks should adopt compliance technologies that automate regulatory reporting and help them stay agile in a rapidly changing landscape.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The economic risks of AI to the financial systems include everything from the potential for consumer and institutional fraud to algorithmic discrimination and AI-enabled cybersecurity risks. Hsu discussed the systemic risk implications of AI in banking and finance using a “tool or weapon” approach.

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Abrigo

JULY 13, 2023

Avoid fraud losses from pig butchering scams FinCrime professionals looking to prevent pig butchering scams in the age of cryptocurrency can follow these steps to tighten security. Takeaway 1 Investment fraud schemes known as pig butchering scams contributed to $3.3 billion in fraud losses in 2022. billion in 2021.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. Justice Department report is taking aim at the “emerging threats and enforcement challenges” associated with digital currencies, establishing a “Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework” to address problems.

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Abrigo

MAY 12, 2022

Protect your financial institution from cybercrime With cybercrime constantly evolving, what can businesses and financial institutions do to prevent fraud? Takeaway 2 In 2021, ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) schemes, and cryptocurrency crime were among the top incidents reported. These measures can help.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Fraud trends for financial institutions to watch for in 2023 Financial institutions should not expect a slowdown of any of 2022’s fraud trends. Takeaway 2 A worsening economy increases pressure to commit fraud, provides opportunities to commit fraud, and can be used as an excuse by criminals to rationalize their actions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Perhaps more troubling, however, is digital fraud’s projected future. Recently published research noted global fraud losses could top $6 billion by 2021, more than doubling the $3 billion lost worldwide in 2015. As such, businesses are now investing in their security and fraud prevention technology and solutions.

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Abrigo

MAY 20, 2022

Fraud on Alert for 2022 A review of SAR data , government agenc y releases, a nd fraud findings found these f raud c oncerns and trends to wat ch in 2022. Takeaway 1 An Abrigo review of SAR data, government agency releases, and fraud findings revealed fraud trends to watch for. Fraud Concerns. Starting Point.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Aided by technology – and emboldened by the rise of cryptocurrencies – fraudsters are stepping up ransomware campaigns. We are seeing gangs involved in drug trafficking and firearms offenses turning to fraud, targeting victims across the U.K. Fraud that was in turn prevented by the unit amounted to as much as $8.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

PYMNTS' September Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook , done in collaboration with NICE Actimize , analyzes the pandemic-era fraud landscape and identifies its many pitfalls. This fraud targets all demographics and generations, with U.S. Financial crime-fighters simply won’t suffer this state of affairs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Or maybe that cryptocurrencies have yet to go mainstream beyond the headlines because fraud still lurks. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. Keeping An Eye On Fraud.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The company will also tell the agency about any intentions for any kind of cryptocurrency issuance in the three years to come. In other news, the individual behind the cryptocurrency project that purportedly had anti-money laundering features was brought forward on wire fraud and money laundering charges by the U.S.

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Perficient

JANUARY 27, 2022

Technological innovation has recently ushered in a wave of digital assets with money-like characteristics, including cryptocurrencies based on the combination of cryptographic and distributed ledger technologies, which together provide a foundation for decentralized, peer-to-peer payments.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Most-read blogs on financial crime in 2022 Synthetic ID fraud, AML quality control, and SAR writing topics were among Abrigo's top blogs on AML/CFT and fraud this year. . Takeaway 1 AML/CFT and fraud professionals often keep up to date on industry trends by reading Abrigo's blog. Sanctions & synthetic ID. Keep me informed.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

The most significant problem with bank innovation is that bankers see or hear about a sexy piece of technology at a conference or at another bank and then acquire it. The new piece of technology ends up solving a known problem but, in the process, creates more problems, and risks, than it solves.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

FIs and FinTechs increasingly encounter new forms of fraud as they expand their digital operations, making it all the more important that they have strong risk assessment and compliance systems in place. The growing prevalence of cryptocurrencies is also complicating the finance sectors’ security efforts. resources.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

billion is estimated to have been lost to cryptocurrency scams, thefts and fraud in the first quarter of 2019, and cybercriminals and scammers are not the only ones putting digital asset users at risk. Thwarting fraud and making usage as secure as possible are key concerns for Canadian trading platform Bitbuy. Facing Fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As goes banking, so goes fraud. PYMNTS December 2020 AML/KYC Tracker® done in collaboration with Trulioo probes the heightened fraud climate accompanying the mobile-digital shift, zeroing in on key aspects of prevailing in the digital fraud wars. It has ever been thus.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. The latest AMC/KYC Tracker examines current efforts to stop money laundering, fight fraud and improve customer identity authentication in the financial services space.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency lending platform Vauld raised $2 million to expand into full banking services, including issuing credit and debit cards and providing fiat and crypto order books, CoinDesk reported. 22, also charging VQR Partners, Virgil Technologies, Montgomery Technologies and Virgil Quantitative Research.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guidance for banks on the lookout for crypto scams and fraud The turbulent cryptocurrency scene should put bankers on high alert. You might also like this whitepaper, "Understanding cryptocurrency." Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrencies are the newest and most popular field in potential financial gains through fraud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Combining these elements, we are creating a broad platform with faster technology and smarter and better services that the industry can trust as a foundation for innovation towards their own end-clients," he added. “In VSoft Debuts Real-Time Platform. BitPay Secures Wyre Integration.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In Q3 2019 alone they made off with cryptocurrency valued at almost $4.5 Among the inventive ways that companies are fighting digital fraud in 2020 is Teradata’s new concept of analyzing computer mouse movements, as it turns out that hackers move their mice very differently than regular people. Fraud prevention tech has to scale.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As we know, two of the most prized traits of blockchain technology, specifically when one is talking about the bitcoin blockchain, are its anonymity and its immutability. Unfortunately, those traits also lead to a fair amount of fraud; which is why Terbium Labs, a “dark web intelligence provider,” has teamed Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

They then claim to be using blockchain technology. China is not the only country dealing with cryptocurrency issues. The lawsuits charge that seven cryptocurrency issuers and four crypto exchanges sold billions of dollars in unregistered assets. As reported on Monday (April 6), 11 lawsuits have been filed in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Officials have until April 1 to divest from any foreign cryptocurrencies, although they won’t be required to report any crypto holdings for the year 2020, the report stated. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Silver Miller — America’s leading cryptocurrency investor law firm — announced it has filed lawsuits against AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of crypto asset holders who were allegedly victims of “SIM swapping.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

With new microchip tech by Cardano , cryptocurrency users would be able to access payment services without an internet connection. But it could also find a larger use worldwide by giving people without access to the internet the ability to use cryptocurrency — such as African farmers, only 2 percent of whom have smartphones.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Looking back at 2019, and at cryptocurrencies, we may well make the declaration that fraudsters got a lot more brazen … which may mean 2020 is the year lawmakers and regulators clamp down through a global, concerted effort to root out financial crime. billion in fraud and theft seen last year. billion number is a huge jump from the $1.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency has come a long way since bitcoin’s emergence as an unregulated, anonymous payment technology. Perhaps the most poignant moment in this evolution came about last week when JPMorgan Chase announced the development of the JPM Coin, the first bank-backed cryptocurrency in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It’s been a big year for cryptocurrency. In September, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a “ fraud.” Goldman Sachs joined in the conversation earlier this month, saying that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies like it are “ not the new gold ” and lose out to the precious metal in a “majority of the key characteristics of money.”.

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Abrigo

MARCH 7, 2022

The world of FinCrime is more dynamic than ever, with fraud escalating thanks to an increase in mobile payments precipitated by the pandemic and security concerns rising over the Russian conflict in Ukraine. Cryptocurrency In general, traditional financial institutions have a low risk tolerance for banking cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Cryptocurrencies may have naysayers on Wall Street, but Goldman Sachs isn’t one of them, according to news from The Wall Street Journal. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs is mulling whether to launch a new trading business that is focused on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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