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What Canadian Merchants Need to Know About International Payment Processing

Clearly Payments

Selling products and services internationally means facing new challenges, especially regarding payment processing, regulatory requirements, currency exchanges, and fraud prevention. Fraud Prevention and Security Cross-border transactions have higher fraud risks than domestic payments.

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Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act examined: A guide to avoiding failure-to-prevent fraud measures

The Payments Association

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, specifically the “failure-to-prevent fraud” offence, and outlines how businesses can mitigate fraud risks. Firms must be required to have fraud prevention policies in place and demonstrate their effectiveness. Why is it important?

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Want Better Fraud Prevention? Build A Better Team

PYMNTS

But getting from theory to daily fraud prevention practice presents massive challenges, and not everyone knows what to do or how to do it. He went even further than that, saying that traditional fraud management might focus on the 1 percent who are exploiting the system. That’s where Kevin Lee comes in.

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7 Best Practices for Preventing Government Fraud in Payments

Core

The digitization of public financial systems introduces new challenges for online payment fraud prevention. Because public financial systems involve essential funds and taxpayer dollars, dedicated government fraud detection systems are paramount to combat fraud—and ensure government accountability.

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Build vs buy? Strategic decisions in financial crime management

The Payments Association

The choice affects compliance, efficiency, and fraud prevention capabilities. Meanwhile, outdated and fragmented systems hinder many organisations’ fraud prevention efforts, increasing operational costs and impeding decision-making. What is this article about? Why is it important? What’s next? have 10-14 years.

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Best Practices in Fraud Management: Q&A with Bob Shiflet

FICO

In these roles, Bob was a true fraud practitioner, responsible for leading high-performance teams across strategic and operational roles and policies and working closely with his peers in Risk, Compliance, Security, and LOB functions across the business to protect the bank, its clients, and its employees.

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Tackling money mule activity: Takeaways from the FCA’s review

Neopay

Best practices for strengthening controls To enhance the fight against money mule activity, firms should: Increase NFD reporting Firms must take a more consistent approach to reporting money mules, ensuring that all cases meeting the standard of proof are submitted.