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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

Since vIBANs are often treated as extensions of master accounts rather than independent relationships, firms fail to apply appropriate risk assessment frameworks. This weakens transaction monitoring, particularly in scenarios involving third-party involvement or high-risk jurisdictions.

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From open banking to open finance and beyond: The future of financial data-sharing

The Payments Association

Open data, in turn, enriches these offerings, enabling innovative credit scoring and risk assessment beyond traditional banking channels. Open data extends beyond regulated financial data-sharing to non-banking datasets, such as telecom, utility, e-commerce, and social data, creating new layers of insight but also new risks.

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The Clearing House Rolls Out Data Sharing Evaluation For Apps, Aggregators

PYMNTS

The Clearing House (TCH) has launched a new offering to make it simpler for data aggregators and financial apps to equip financial institutions (FI) with assessment information to perform its own risk evaluation, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 26) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. Bank, Truist, TD Bank, PNC Bank, J.P.

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What Are Merchant Category Codes (MCCs)?

EBizCharge

Fraud detection and risk assessment: MCCs assist fraud detection and risk assessment operations by flagging suspicious transactions. Check your merchant agreement: Your merchant agreement contains detailed information about your payment processing arrangement, including the MCC.

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Emailage & Feedzai Partner to Combine Machine Learning with Email Risk Assessment

Fintech Labs Insights

In the agreement, both companies will leverage the other’s unique security layer to combine email risk assessment with fraud scoring. Emailage, which debuted at FinovateSpring 2015 , offers a tool that assesses the risk associated with an email address. Feedzai made its European debut at FinovateEurope 2014.

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Trends & Insights in the Financial Service Industry in 2021

The Finance Weekly

Businesses find it easier to establish agreements because of their transparency and convenience. It will ensure that regulatory standards are met while also reducing the risk of data breaches. Third-Party Risk Assessments: Conducting third-party risk assessments can assist in discovering vendor security flaws.

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This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 24/04

The Fintech Times

The new agreement will help drive growth in current account and credit card issuing, to bring the value of Nationwide to a greater number of consumers across the UK. Open banking payment and account initiation solution provider fumopay has forged a partnership with Cashflows to enhance its integrated checkout experience.

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