Paul Kitchener Technical Marketing Manager at Speakerbus
Both the blockchain and low-cost trading apps have had their share of ups and downs during the global pandemic. In addition, over the last few months, we have seen financial regulators tighten their grip on these firms, both mobile Stock trading applications and Crypto exchanges. In June, the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority delivered ...
01 September 2021 /crypto /crime
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
In the Scamdemic, investigations by journalists are a source of inspiration by helping many clients receive compensation from banks who initially refused fraud reimbursement. At the point of banks saying no to a rebate, the bank scam team trot out with the excuse of their standard lines , ‘We contacted the payee bank and were unable to recover fun...
31 August 2021 /payments /crime Exposing Financial Crime
UK e-commerce spending hit a record £10 billion in July 2021. The year-to-date online spending was £65 billion, up 18% y-o-y and 56% on 2019. Following this trend online fraud rate for faster payments and account take over fraud for 2021 could be £1 billion. If this trend continues the monthly running rate could top a £100 million by early 2022. ...
27 August 2021 /payments /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Eyal Worthalter Vice President – Global Solution Sales at Utimaco
This year has been hit hard by cyber-attacks, with many major companies experiencing compromission by hackers, such as Microsoft’s Exchange Server, and Australia’s Nine Network, which was taken off air. Most recently, a hacker stole $600m in cryptocurrencies from a blockchain finance platform in what could be the biggest hack ever, and T-Mobile ...
26 August 2021 /security /crime Information Security
‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood and online fraud When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form Come in, she said I'll give ya shelter from the scamming storm Bob Dylan, with thanks, Deposit fraud occurs when money in the form of electronic or paper payment is put into a ...
25 August 2021 /payments /crime Trends in Financial Services
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Online scammers used fraudulent SMS about Covid-19 vaccinations, lockout penalties, and missing delivery deliveries to defraud UK customers out of a record £479 million last year. According to data provided by UK Finance, the banking industry organization, there was a 5% yearly increase in money lost to “authorized fraud,” which occurs when clients...
19 August 2021 /regulation /crime
Police have been authorised to employ 20,000 to assist in combating of crime. One of their first targets is domestic burglary, which we can agree is a horrible crime causing financial and emotional deep distress. Last year there were 268,000 victims of domestic burglary in England and Wales, and part of the 19% decline in total crime excluding fra...
09 August 2021 /payments /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Andreas Hobbelin Head of AML & FCP at ZTL PAYMENT SOLUTION
A couple of years ago I was walking over Stureplan in Stockholm when I heard somebody yelling my name, I turned around and there was the little brother to one of my former childhood school friends who came to Sweden as a refugee in the 90s. He was tall, big and actually looked like a real crime figure. I couldn’t pretend that I didn’t recognize him...
06 August 2021 /regulation /crime RegTech
Retired Member
Ransomware on the rise: What are the risks? As financial technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous, so too do the risks of cybercrime. Financial institutions are prime targets for a litany of attacks including ransomware due to the vast quantities of critical value data (CVD) relating to its customers and employees. Ransomware ...
06 August 2021 /security /crime Information Security
Ali El Kaafarani CEO & Founder at PQShield
Quantum computing is proving to be enormously exciting for financial institutions. Already, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Börse are exploring quantum algorithms to calculate risk model simulations 1,000 times faster than currently possible, while BBVA is looking to quantum to optimise investment portfolio management. But a more sinister aspect to...
05 August 2021 /security /crime
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