Fintech News

JUNE 23, 2024

Since the last assessment in 2014, Singapore has closely monitored ML risks, including those related to legal persons, virtual assets, and environmental crimes, to ensure timely risk mitigation.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The IMC’s report outlines strategies aimed at strengthening prevention, improving detection, and enforcing tougher penalties to better protect the integrity of Singapore’s financial system against increasingly sophisticated financial crimes. Such crimes will continue to evolve and remain a threat to all international financial centres.

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Fintech News

MAY 20, 2024

Cyber Crimes, Cybersecurity, and Fintech Panel Event May 23, 2024, 12:00 CEST On May 23, 2024, at 12:00 CEST, a panel event titled “Cyber Crimes, Cybersecurity, and Fintech” will be hosted by Peirce College. The session will be moderated by Urs Bolt, a Fintech and Banking Expert.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Crucially, payment systems all over the world reported failures and counting damages across sectors ranging from retail to banking. Let’s take for example, the terminal and the processor, this is a one-way street communication and if either experiences a fault the entire non-cash transaction is no longer available.

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Fintech News

MAY 7, 2024

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Lawrence Wong, discussed the potential expansion of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) anti-money laundering platform, COSMIC, to non-banking sectors in a recent response to a parliamentary question.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 8, 2025

International payments business Caxton has appointed Roger Bracken to its board in the position of non-executive director. Lee Dunne has been appointed as the new head of banking by European financial technology provider payabl. Lee Dunne has been appointed as the new head of banking by European financial technology provider payabl.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to the 2019 edition of the FBI’s Internet Crime Report , last year was both a lucrative and diverse year for cybercriminals and scammers. All in, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a total of 467,361 complaints, with reported losses exceeding $3.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

18) that the government says would make convertible digital currencies like bitcoin less attractive to criminals engaging in crimes such as ransomware attacks. The proposed limits for reporting digital transactions are $10,000 for non-wire transactions and $3,000 for wire transactions – the same as with cash.

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Fintech News

APRIL 28, 2024

The banking industry is shifting towards innovation, collaboration and customer-centricity, driven by the adoption of technologies including cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), changing customer preferences, and a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, a new report by Amazon Web Services (AWS) says.

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FICO

JANUARY 5, 2021

What else made for the hottest reads in 2020 for fraud and financial crime? Here were our top 5 posts: #1: Fraud And Financial Crime Convergence. TJ Horan reported on a key takeaway from the Aite Financial Crime Forum : lenders are serious about combining their fraud and financial crime protection systems.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 30, 2025

Partnerships and collaborations Banco Sabadell has unveiled a strategic alliance with Snowdrop Solutions, a geolocation-based technology services company, to enhance the customer experience within the bank’s app.By The Bank of America Corporation board of directors has appointed Maria Martinez as a director.

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Fintech News

JULY 17, 2024

The rapid ascent of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of financial innovation, but it has also created novel challenges in combating financial crime. The far-reaching study encompasses both crypto-native and non-crypto native methods, as well as strategies for prevention.

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FICO

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With financial crime on the rise, it’s worth noting the firms that are succeeding in the fight. One of these is Belgazprombank , a leading lender in Belarus, which implemented a system from FICO that screens financial transactions and customers in order to prevent financial crime in Eastern Europe.

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Neopay

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The recent £29 million fine imposed on Starling Bank by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for financial crime failings offers important lessons for businesses in the e-money and payments industry. For more details, you can read the FCA’s Final Notice on Starling Bank’s failings here.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

APC Intelidat, the credit bureau in Panama, will soon provide regulatory compliance capabilities to its customers and fight financial crime in Panama with a FICO solution. This is the beginning of our relationship with FICO, which is known worldwide for its risk management and financial crime compliance solutions.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2024

Financial crime continues to grow, seemingly exponentially, with fraud damages expected to hit $10.5trillion annually by 2025 , a drastic rise from $3trillion in 2015. To reduce the scale of the crime that is happening we need a unified approach, and this future service will be a major step forward.”

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FICO

AUGUST 12, 2021

Financial Institutions’ compliance officers and teams should be concerned that Open Banking may render their existing AML/CTF and KYC compliance programs inadequate. Open banking is evolving around an ecosystem of third-party providers (TPPs). What is Open Banking? Customer data screen-scraping widespread.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 2, 2024

This is according to the first findings of an in-depth financial crime survey by The Payments Association , which champions innovation and collaboration across the industry, due for full publication later this month. Often, APP fraud attempts can be as simple as a text claiming to be from a bank asking for funds to be transferred.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 8, 2024

This April, The Fintech Times is focusing on all things embedded finance, the integration of financial services into non-financial products and services. First, we turn our attention to the growth of Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS). “Do they have a banking licence that means their customers’ money is protected up to a certain level?

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The booming popularity of neobanks following the pandemic saw people, both good and bad, flock to them, however, one notable name has failed to tackle financial crime and as a result is now facing a hefty fine from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Starling’s growth has been meteoric from 43,000 customers in 2017 to 3.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

moves from an antiquated, check-based system to more real-time systems, you haven’t got weeks or months – you have to check immediately if there is a threat,” explained Charles Delingpole, CEO of anti-financial crime technology platform Mimiro. banks, separate data revealed. . “As the U.S. trillion in the U.S.

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FICO

JANUARY 19, 2022

From TBML to BNPL to NFTs, 2021 found fraud and financial crime professionals dealing with a plethora of new challenges and criminal schemes. Our five most popular posts of the year dealt with trade-based money laundering, non-fungible tokens, buy now pay later scams, courier scams and good old credit card fraud. Here are excerpts.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

As economic crime continues to rise, the UK fintech industry is taking significant steps to address this growing challenge. Crime impact Economic crime has now reached such huge proportions that it acts as a significant drag on UK growth. That blue-chip line-up underlines just how seriously industry is taking this problem.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

When it comes to financial crime, it seems, the bad guys are getting away with financial murder. The implication, then, is that financial institutions are not doing what they could or should do to detect and prevent financial crimes. Even staggering. And what these firms are doing doesn’t seem to be working.

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Finovate

AUGUST 9, 2024

. “GCash is an indispensable infrastructure for everyday life of Filipinos and we are delighted to join Mynt as a strategic investor to support the growth of the company,” MUFG Senior Managing Corporate Executive, Head of Global Commercial Banking Business Group Yasushi Itagaki said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

As a major player in cross-border banking and global finance, the country doesn’t just need to combat domestic financial crimes: It is also at risk of becoming a hub for transmitting and investing criminal funds obtained overseas. . banks and their subsidiaries every year. It is actually impossible in the U.K.,

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 17, 2024

The US subsidiary of a Canadian bank was issued a fine of $65million for unsafe practices related to operational, compliance, and strategic risk management controls. The bank was ordered to pay the fine to resolve investigations by The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau of the US Department of the Treasury.

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FICO

MAY 20, 2021

I’m very pleased to announce the release of the FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager Retail Banking Consumer v3.0 model, which adds a Scam Detection Score to Falcon’s existing third-party fraud detection score for retail banking transfers. But this may not be enough, as pressure is mounting for reimbursement to be mandatory for all banks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

European Union finance ministers worked out a plan for combating money laundering and also made a deal on major bank reform on Tuesday (Dec. The money laundering plan is a response to highly visible cases of alleged criminal activity at EU banks in countries such as Malta, the Netherlands, Britain, Estonia and others.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is as much as 5% of global GDP, or $2 trillion. To tackle this menace, regulators have slapped fines on banks who fail to stop money laundering. It’s not that banks haven’t put in controls to tackle this menace.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jamal El-Hindi, the deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), spoke at the 2019 Money Transmitter Regulators Association Annual Conference on Wednesday (Sept. 11) about the importance of innovation and the regulation of non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), according to a release.

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Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

As a proliferation of payment options promises to streamline banking and commerce, regulators, fintechs, and financial services companies are looking for ways to make sure that the challenges to these new payment optionsfrom technical complexity to new forms of fraud and financial crimeare met. And then trust.

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The Payments Association

JANUARY 31, 2025

While this requirement has been a cornerstone of AML and CTF efforts, its implementation has traditionally focused on the banking sector, which operates within well-defined regulatory frameworks. On the one hand, the FATFs extension of the Travel Rule to cryptoassets demonstrates its commitment to modern financial crime prevention.

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FICO

JANUARY 7, 2019

Because organized crime schemes are so sophisticated and quick to adapt, defense strategies based on any single, one-size-fits-all analytic technique will produce sub-par results. Each transaction is tagged as either fraud or non-fraud. In the first post, TJ discussed the use of supervised and unsupervised models. Read the full post.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. And that guiding principle is what leads fraudsters and bad actors to probe systemic vulnerabilities in banks’ compliance processes. Crime, At Scale. may stand as Exhibit A here.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In July, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed four UK high-street banks had failed to comply with banking rules designed to keep customers safe. It’s important that the penalties are proportionate and consider the intent and impact of the non-compliance.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Indian FinTech Cashaa and the country's United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society teamed up to launch what they say is the world's first cryptocurrency bank branch through a joint-venture bank called Unicas, according to a release. The operation also will provide traditional banking services, according to the backers.

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