Fintech News

APRIL 16, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), also known as gen AI, is expected to significantly impact risk management over the next five years, allowing financial institutions to automate tasks, accelerate processes and improve efficiencies. The tech can also draft model documentation and validation reports.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the rapidly advancing world of payments and eCommerce, merchants find themselves navigating a landscape of risk in payment processing. While these technologies bring unparalleled convenience and global reach, they also introduce a plethora of risks that can impact the financial stability and reputation of businesses.

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Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this article, we’ll discuss what SaaS companies looking to become payment facilitators need to know about risk management strategies. PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks.

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The Payments Association

JUNE 11, 2025

The platform risk paradox: Managing digital commerce fraud at scale 12 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? How digital commerce platforms manage escalating fraud risks while scaling operations. Why is it important? Consumer fraud losses reached $12.5

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, specifically the “failure-to-prevent fraud” offence, and outlines how businesses can mitigate fraud risks. Compliance requires proactive fraud risk assessment, the implementation of preventive procedures, and a culture of accountability. Why is it important?

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

However, several complex types of risks come along with this. As such, PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed. could also be classified as operational risks. Let’s get started.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As financial institutions increasingly rely on digital infrastructure to enhance operations, customer experience, and security, they also face growing challenges in mitigating the risks that come with it, such as cyber threats, system failures, and other operational vulnerabilities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Fusion Risk Management is expanding its corporate risk management software offering by integrating new functionality into the tool, the company said in a press release on Monday (Sept. The enhancement means third parties can more easily participate in a holistic risk mitigation strategy, Fusion noted.

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Finovate

MARCH 24, 2025

Regtech Financial services compliance company Thistle Initiatives launches its integrated Risk Management as a Service (RMaaS) solution. Lending Independent asset finance provider Liberty Leasing selects Lendscape as its new contract management platform.

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Fintech Review

MARCH 25, 2025

This PoC provided an opportunity to explore insights into technological risks associated with digital assets across multiple blockchains. Transparency and risk management are critical to supporting institutional engagement in tokenized finance.” Contact Renjie Butalid VP Business Development Metrika renjie@metrika.co

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CB Insights

AUGUST 12, 2021

Moody’s , an integrated risk assessment firm, has acquired RMS , a risk management solutions provider, for $2B. RMS: California-based RMS is a provider of climate and natural disaster risk modeling and analytics. The company has over 400 risk models that cover 120 countries. Want the full post?

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ncontracts has acquired Venminder, a third-party risk management SaaS platform, to enhance its governance, risk, and compliance services. The acquisition will broaden Ncontracts’ expertise in third-party risk management and strengthen its position in both SaaS and knowledge-as-a-service markets.

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FloQast

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One of the first steps in carrying out an effective internal audit is to perform an internal audit risk assessment. This planning process is the foundation for a successful audit, helping auditors identify and prioritize significant risks and areas of concern within an organization. What Is an Internal Audit Risk Assessment?

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This issue hampers forecasting accuracy, risk management, and resource allocation. Without accurate insights, businesses struggle with forecasting, risk management, and resource allocation. Rolling forecasts also help businesses spot potential risks early, such as declining sales in specific regions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Inaccurate and slow credit risk assessment for [small- to medium-sized business (SMB)] commercial loan requests is one of the major reasons that over 50 [percent] of loans are currently declined by financial institutions (FIs),” said Roger Vincent, chief innovation officer at Trade Ledger.

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Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification. Learn More What is Merchant Account Underwriting?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Supplier risk management is often a resource-intensive practice and rarely a target of technological investments. As a result, corporates will often let their vendor relationship management processes fall by the wayside. This lack of attention given to supplier risk meant wasted spend and fraud. Unprecedented Risk.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

provides decision-makers including those in private credit with data-rich intelligence that highlights key trends, risks and opportunities. The new offering combines daily credit risk modelling with agentic research to provide a dynamic, 360-degree risk assessment. Rajiv Bhat, CEO of martini.ai Notably, all martini.ai

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FICO

MARCH 8, 2021

eDriving SM , a leading global provider of digital driver risk management programs, has partnered with FICO to create scoring algorithms to capture driving behavior and develop a transformational predictor of a drivers’ risk level designed to help them reduce their risk of future collisions.

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Finextra

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Modern credit risk management now leans significantly on predictive modelling, moving far beyond tra.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Bloomberg customers will now be able to use the news site's terminal to look at Credit Benchmark 's credit risk data, which comes from risk views of the world's largest financial institutions, according to a press release. They can also assess ongoing credit quality. The pandemic has created rifts of uncertainty in the markets.

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Seon

JUNE 24, 2024

The rise of online transactions and evolving cybercrime tactics highlight the urgent need for strong identity risk management and monitoring. Identity theft presents significant challenges to businesses, making proactive risk mitigation essential for regulatory compliance, trust, asset protection, and operational integrity.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As financial institutions increasingly rely on digital infrastructure to enhance operations, customer experience, and security, they also face growing challenges in mitigating the risks that come with it, such as cyber threats, system failures, and other operational vulnerabilities.

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Neopay

DECEMBER 20, 2023

1371) will introduce notable changes in the assessment of risks associated with Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). In the case of customers identified as domestic PEPs or having close associations with domestic PEPs, the initial risk assessment will consider them to present a lower level of risk compared to non-domestic PEPs.

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VISTA InfoSec

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Conduct a DORA gap analysis Conducting a DORA gap analysis is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of your current ICT risk management and operational measures in relation to the requirements outlined in Article 6 of DORA. This roadmap should outline necessary remediation actions, timelines, and responsible parties.

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VISTA InfoSec

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Conduct a DORA gap analysis Conducting a DORA gap analysis is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of your current ICT risk management and operational measures in relation to the requirements outlined in Article 6 of DORA. This roadmap should outline necessary remediation actions, timelines, and responsible parties.

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VISTA InfoSec

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Conduct a DORA gap analysis Conducting a DORA gap analysis is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of your current ICT risk management and operational measures in relation to the requirements outlined in Article 6 of DORA. This roadmap should outline necessary remediation actions, timelines, and responsible parties.

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VISTA InfoSec

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Conduct a DORA gap analysis Conducting a DORA gap analysis is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of your current ICT risk management and operational measures in relation to the requirements outlined in Article 6 of DORA. This roadmap should outline necessary remediation actions, timelines, and responsible parties.

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FICO

APRIL 3, 2020

The importance of Third-Party Risk Management is growing, and by association cybersecurity risk assessment. Doug Clare, Vice President of Fraud, Compliance and Security Solutions, at FICO discusses the challenge in a recent conversation with Chris Wallace, Director of Cyber Risk, at T-Mobile. . by FICO.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

LexisNexis Risk Solution, a data and analytics company that helps loaners assess the risk of small business lending to borrowers, is teaming up with Cortera to add its trade credit analytics capabilities into the mix.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Coupa , which works in business spend management, is rolling out new capabilities to help with businesses’ spend visibility while lowering risk, through a cloud-based platform, according to a press release.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In fintech, Agentic AI could enhance fraud prevention, risk management, trading, and customer engagement by autonomously analysing financial data, detecting anomalies, and executing decisions in real time. These systems continuously learn from interactions, optimise their performance, and proactively solve problems in various domains.

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FICO

OCTOBER 27, 2016

ESS can be used by an enterprise to understand its cyber risk and shore up defense gaps. It is also an important assessment tool for third parties such as potential business partners and, notably, cyber insurance providers. The need for objective risk measurement. Breach insurance is still a relatively new coverage category.

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Fintech Review

MARCH 11, 2025

This approach not only empowers users with rapid, accurate risk assessments but also feeds critical intelligence into banks fraud prevention systems, ensuring proactive defense measures are always one step ahead. By delivering rapid, accurate assessments, ScamAlert empowers consumers while enhancing banks risk management.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 3, 2025

With combined decades of experience in quantitative analysis, algorithmic trading, and portfolio risk management, Becker and Rieke apply data-led methodologies through Virturos AI-powered trading platform. Our systems are structured to interpret large-scale data inputs, allowing us to manage volatility and risk exposure effectively.

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FICO

APRIL 3, 2020

The importance of Third-Party Risk Management is growing, and by association cybersecurity risk assessment. Doug Clare, Vice President of Fraud, Compliance and Security Solutions, at FICO discusses the challenge in a recent conversation with Chris Wallace, Director of Cyber Risk, at T-Mobile. . by FICO.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 25, 2025

In this data-driven economy, risk assessment demands more than simply evaluating whether a customer will pay their bills. To truly understand and manage credit risk today, modern companies must look beyond the basics and leverage new technologies, alternative data, and broader information sources.

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