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Research/Card fraud

Avoiding Improvisation: A 3-Step Guide to Harmonising Electronic Identity Verification

08 January 2020 315 downloads

Research/Card fraud

How to Protect and Grow in the Fintech Industry

09 December 2019 425 downloads

News/regulation

Westpac faces hefty fines for breaching anti-money laundering rules

Westpac could face unprecedented civil penalties, having been accused of contravening AML/CTF laws on over 23 million occasions by Australia’s anti money-laundering and terrorism financing regulator, Austrac.

20 November 2019

News/Card fraud

NatWest ranked best bank for online security by Which?

Which? has compared the online security of 12 of the UK's biggest banks, with NatWest coming out on top.

18 November 2019

News/Card fraud

Russian accused of running carding forum extradited to US

A Russian man accused of running a website selling stolen payment card details has been extradited from Israel to the US.

15 November 2019

News/Card fraud

Global PCI DSS compliance plummets

Nearly two thirds of organisations around the world that accept card payments are putting customers at risk by failing to ensure full PCI DSS compliance, according to a Verizon report.

12 November 2019

News/Card fraud

Will trust woes undermine Open Banking under PSD2?

In a roundtable discussion held Wednesday in London hosted by digital payments firm PPRO, industry leaders met to explore the impact PSD2 has imposed on key players in Open Banking and the changes needed to achieve the regulation’s objective in 2020 and beyond.

06 November 2019

News/Card fraud

Riskified announces $165 million funding

Payments and fraud-prevention company Riskified has announced today its Series E funding round of $165 million, pushing its value beyond $1 billion.

05 November 2019

News/Card fraud

Massive cache of Indian card data goes up for sale on dark web

The details of more than 1.3 million credit and debit cards - most of them from India - have been put up for sale on an underground forum.

30 October 2019

News/security

Money 20/20: Fusion centres are the future of fraud prevention

Security executives have a bigger seat at the table when making product decisions in the world of faster payments and online account origination. At Money 20/20 USA, industry experts discuss how technical knowledge and business issues need to be married to truly meet the realities of digital transformation and prevent fraud.

29 October 2019

News/regulation

Regtech zooms in on the severe penalties of 6AMLD

The European Union’s Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD) is due to take effect on 3rd December 2020 and brings with it a suite of substantial penalties for non-compliance. Here’s what you need to be aware of in the run up to the fast-approaching deadline.

25 October 2019

News/Card fraud

SCA – no more kicking the can down the road

With the EBA announcing a revised deadline for migration to Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) of December 31st 2020, how have industry players reacted and what now needs to happen make the transition a success?

18 October 2019

Company update/Card fraud

Worldline celebrates sustainability ranking boost

Worldline, [Euronext: WLN] European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announces that it has gained one place in the Sustainalytics ranking and became the 4th out of the 229 companies assessed in the Software and Services industry.

07 October 2019

Company update/security

Banking industry stops £4.5mn of fraudulent payments per day, UK Finance finds

The finance industry prevented £820 million of unauthorised fraud in the first half of 2019, up 14 per cent on the previous year, according to the latest figures from UK Finance.

26 September 2019

Company update/security

TSB to deliver Confirmation of Payee with VocaLink support

TSB today announced it will become one of the first banks to deliver Confirmation of Payee for its customers, partnering with Vocalink, a Mastercard company.

26 September 2019

Company update/ai

Feedzai upgrades Case Manager with AI technology

Feedzai has announced the availability of AI-powered Case Manager - a major upgrade that revolutionizes the way analysts and investigators review cases and alerts. By bringing the power of AI into Case Manager, Feedzai boosts the efficiency of financial crime prevention, while simultaneously improving the accuracy of detection.

24 September 2019

Company update/ai

Temenos releases AI financial crime detection tool

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced the release of the Temenos Peer Group Identifier, an AI-powered financial profiling tool to assist banks in improving their customer experiences by focusing their financial crime detection efforts on the highest risk transactions.

24 September 2019

News/regulation

Sibos 2019: How compliance is keeping pace with real-time cross-border payments

At Sibos 2019, industry leaders in the compliance space will be exploring how best to prepare for the challenges that are emerging with real-time cross-border payments, which are inherently more challenging than domestic payments because they require bridging the closed loops of multiple currency systems.

23 September 2019

Company update/security

Tradeshift implements Qedit privacy platform

QEDIT, a Privacy-Enhancing Technology provider based on zero-knowledge proof cryptography, has announced a partnership with Tradeshift, the leader in supply chain payments and marketplaces.

23 September 2019

Company update/regulation

Refintiv releases digital identify verification tool, Qual-ID

Refinitiv has taken a significant step forward in its efforts to help financial services providers fight identity fraud and financial crime with the launch of Qual-ID, a new solution combining digital identity verification with risk screening to help improve digital onboarding of consumers and compliance with Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations around the world.

23 September 2019