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Some of the Top Fraud Events and Scandals in Payments

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Operation Phish Phry (2009) Operation Phish Phry stands as a testament to the cunning and audacity of cyber criminals orchestrating large-scale payment processing fraud. The operation also involved money laundering tactics to obscure the origins of stolen funds. Compromise of over 40 million credit card accounts.

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

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Square Financial Services will originate commercial loans to the retailers that use Square for payments. was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. The headquarters will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Square, Inc.

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eBay May Be Prepping Korean Subsidiary For Sale

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The company, originally founded in San Francisco, saw more use amid the pandemic as consumers flocked to the internet to do the bulk of their shopping. eBay acquired GMarket in 2009 for about $1.2 eBay might be selling its South Korea marketplace, eBay Korea, in another step in the reorganization already dividing up the U.S.

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Family Announces Death Of Square Co-founder O’Tierney At 35

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At the beginning of 2009, Co-founders Jim McKelvey and Jack Dorsey tapped O’Tierney to create the company’s original mobile payment app. It was reported in 2014 that Dorsey had originally looked to have O’Tierney work on a journal-keeping app called Log, prior to Square (first named Squirrel.).

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MoneyGram To Settle With FTC For $125M

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MoneyGram also settled with the FTC — which had said MoneyGram violated a 2009 order that stipulated the company needed to cut down on fraud. In that case, the FTC said MoneyGram did not address fraud that had originated from its large agents, and instead had focused its lower-volume, smaller agents known as “mom and pop” agents.

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Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL Music-Streaming Service

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While TIDAL doesn’t give out subscriber, user or financial data, its website claims to have more than 70 million songs and 250,000 high-quality videos in its catalog, along with original video series and podcasts. Sound Is Booming. Square Music.

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Average U.S. FICO Score Ticks Up to 706

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Since bottoming out at 686 in Oct 2009, there have been nine consecutive years of increases in the national average FICO Score. As a result of these developments, consumer credit profiles and financial health have shown significant improvement since bottoming out in 2009. 1] “Risk in Bankcard Originations on the Rise”, [link].

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