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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

While vIBANs offer innovation in payment systems, they introduce risks like money laundering due to insufficient oversight. Virtual IBANs (vIBANs) have become a key component of modern payment systems, enhancing payment reconciliation and facilitating cross-border transactions. Why is it important? What’s next?

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APAC’s Digital Banking Growth Sparks a Surge in Fraud Cases

Fintech News

Respondents also said they had adjusted their transaction limits to reduce the impact of fraud losses (53%), enhanced security on their banking apps (40%), undertaken security audits of their mobile banking infrastructure (32%), and partnered with network operators or device makers to enhance security (26%).

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Will Real-Time Payments Increase Financial Crime in the USA?

FICO

Unfortunately, even if they realize their mistake within seconds, the irrevocable nature of the payment makes retrieving lost money difficult if not impossible. Money Laundering and the Rise of the Money Mule. Authorized push payment frauds rely on creating a sense of urgency that pushes victims to act before thinking.

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Real-Time Payments & Fraud – What Can be Done?

FICO

Banks have suffered from bad publicity when money-laundering happens, or their customers fall victim to fraud. For over 25 years, credit and debit card transactions have been assessed for fraud risk using AI and machine learning. The answers are neither fast nor easy, but there are things that all participants can do.

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Australia Central Bank Acknowledges Faster Payments’ Risk Challenge

PYMNTS

But participants in Australia’s NPP are working to address this risk, she added, with banks deploying in-house fraud detection solutions to analyze interbank transactions. These include such things as transaction limits, two-factor authentication and algorithms designed to identify suspicious transactions,” she said.

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AR And VR Sizzle At Macy’s And Walmart, Amazon And Danske Bank Fizzle

PYMNTS

There are new rules in place as transaction windows are expanded by two hours a day and transaction limits are increased to $100,000. Funds availability speed is expanded for some transactions and ACH credits. Same-day ACH transactions logged a 243 percent increase in the second quarter of 2018, measured year-over-year.

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How Radius Bank Is Tapping Mobile, Digital Card Issuance To Keep Debit Transactions Secure

PYMNTS

Radius thus manages its anti-money laundering (AML), transaction risk and other fraud prevention methods via partnerships with multiple third-party FinTechs and technology providers. The bank has also examined how moving certain debit-related features online may improve security. “I