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Authenticating Combines Verification Services To Prevent Identity Fraud

PYMNTS

Authenticating.com is working to combat identity fraud by combining different solutions to securely automate and outsource identity verification and fraud prevention as a service. billion in losses due to cybercrime, with various forms of identity fraud topping the list.

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How Banks Are Using AI, ML To Fight Account Opening Fraud

PYMNTS

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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AML/KYC Compliance Just Got Harder

PYMNTS

10, with new regulations for cryptocurrencies, wallets and exchanges. Issuers, merchants, payments service providers (PSPs) and other interested parties are closely watching developments in AML/KYC and counter terrorist financing (CTF) regulations, as governments worldwide clamp down strongly on identity scams. Know Your Criminals.

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Recap of Money 20/20 USA 2023 and 10 Banking Thoughts

South State Correspondent

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. Fraud & Identity: By far, the largest number of vendors and conversations were over fraud and identity. Maybe a topic for next year?

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

PYMNTS

And that fact — shared by Cognito CEO Alain Meier during a recent PYMNTS interview centered around changes in digital ID – serves to show the weakness of knowledge-based authentication. “We Meier said there is serious pressure to move further away from knowledge-based authentication methods and even Social Security numbers.

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How Merchants Can Brace For SCA’s Looming Deadline

PYMNTS

Regulators within the EU are looking to give merchants a bit more time when it comes to SCA, despite the deadline being immovable. The regulator is thus looking for ways that it can grant merchants more flexibility when it comes to SCA requirements. For more on PSD2 and GDPR, visit the Tracker’s News and Trends. About the Tracker.

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Enforcing AML/KYC Compliance When Legal Precedent Does Not Apply

PYMNTS

What is new is the way in which the technology is being incorporated into businesses’ broader efforts to comply with relevant AML/KYC regulations to help mitigate identity theft and fraud and the legislation being adopted to support those technologies and govern the ways they are implemented.