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Singapore Tightens China Remittance Rules in Light of S$13 Million Frozen Funds

Fintech News

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has engaged with the PRC Embassy in Singapore to register concerns and understand how affected remitters can unfreeze their funds and accounts. Approximately 430 reports were against Samlit Moneychanger. These cases represent a small minority of total remittance transactions through remittance companies.

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How to Create a GDPR-Compliant Password Policy?

VISTA InfoSec

This rule, which started on May 25, 2018, gives customers more control over their data and makes data collection and use more transparent. A good rule of thumb is to require users to change their passwords every 60 to 90 days. A big part of the GDPR is protecting people’s privacy and data from unauthorized access.

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The PSR’s new fraud refund rules: A step forward, but is it enough?

The Payments Association

As of October 7, all UK payment firms making use of the faster payment system (FPS) are required to refund fraud victims up to £85,000 within five days under new rules set by the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). Further, it is unclear whether the rules address the complexities and evolving fraud tactics.

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Deep Dive: Reducing The Security Risks Of Open Banking

PYMNTS

Open banking is typically achieved via application programming interfaces (APIs), sets of rules and procedures that permit developers to create algorithms and applications that access features or data or interact with other systems. Requiring any two of these three data points is enough to protect against 99.9

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PCI DSS Requirement 8 – Changes from v3.2.1 to v4.0 Explained

VISTA InfoSec

Specific Requirement - New: Rules for limited shared account use (duration, documentation, approval, auditability). Verifying admin understanding of strict shared login rules. Scope Broad requirement, password rules apply generally. Added clarification of where this complexity rule is mandatory. a (v3.2.1) -> 8.2.2.a

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Navigating the rise of AI-enabled fraud

The Payments Association

Fraudsters are continuously finding new sophisticated ways of leveraging AI to carry out cyber threats, with traditional fraud prevention methods, which rely on fixed rules and human intervention, being no longer sufficient to detect and mitigate the complex and evolving tactics used by fraudsters. keystroke dynamics or mouse movements).

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Wallet wars: How digital payments are reshaping finance

The Payments Association

The question is not if but how severe and far-reaching these new rules will be. Adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and biometric verification to reduce fraud risks. Digital wallets have done more than digitise the way we pay and rewritten the rules of the financial ecosystem.