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Banking-As-A-Service (BaaS) Making Payments Faster And ‘Smarter’

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This means immigrants will get access to deposit accounts, bill payment, cross-border transfers and more all via the same app.”. Other strong points for BaaS adoption point to cost savings and new revenue streams. The World Bank found that consumers globally are charged an average of 6.75

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Why Citi Is Using Biometrics To Build Its ‘Security Perimeter’

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The financial institution (FI) recently created a facial recognition tool that enables bank customers to open new deposit accounts either in person or via digital channels. A single data breach that manages to compromise users’ identities can cost firms an average of $3.86

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European Card Fraud — How the UK Drove Down Losses 8%

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Whilst data compromises drove up card fraud in the UK in 2018, they were not at the same scale and ferocity as 2019. UK banks continued to strengthen and improve their systems, taking the learnings from the 2018 spikes to better control future compromises, and take the next steps forward to further improve Card Not Present (CNP) protection.

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Ethos Selects Thought Machine to Ensure Everyone Can Access Finances While Upholding Ethical Values

The Fintech Times

Ethos will debut with a Shariah-compliant deposit account (Mudaraba structure) and a Home Purchase Plan mortgage (Musharakah and Ijarah structure) using Thought Machine’s core banking platform, Vault Core. This partnership is a pivotal moment for the banking industry, and we are proud to be part of it.” Why Thought Machine?

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Study Sees BEC Scams Gaining Ground

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Businesses are unwittingly sending the compensation, intended for those executives, to fraudulent accounts. The mechanics of the fraud work this way: The criminal establishes an email account ostensibly in the name of the chief executive officer of the firm under attack.

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Data Dive, Criminality Edition: Fingerprints And Wire Fraud And Money Laundering (Oh My!)

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HR departments need be on the alert for a new type of phishing scam that asks for reroutes on direct deposit accounts, CNBC reported. To move employee paychecks directly into a criminal’s account. They also activated files that forced infected computers to register email accounts with AOL,” the announcement explained.

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FICO World 2023: Four Enterprise Fraud Management Takeaways

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There is also growing impact to traditional card portfolios, not just demand deposit accounts (DDA) and real-time payments channels. New regulatory considerations are emerging, like the Payment Systems Regulator issuing new liability frameworks in the UK.