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It’s no secret to any regular reader of our blog that we are enthusiastic advocates for the power of AI. Also, you can’t open a newspaper (do people still open newspapers?) or read online news without at some point encountering a story about how AI is reshaping almost every discipline and industry imaginable. In a…
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50% increase in anti-money launder fines and penalties levied on FIs in 2022 95% of AML execs are prioritizing AI and ML for AML Fraudsters “jamming the system” with massive amounts of attempts A post at Jack Henry Fintalk discusses Anti-Money Laundering strategies — and how a rising number of financial institutions are being penalized…
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The FedNow Program launched on July 20th In 2008, the UK Faster Payments System launched – with some negative consequences These negative consequences were quickly addressed, offering an example for the U.S. system We’ve addressed in an earlier post the fundamental challenge of offering real-time payments in an era where fraud is rampant. The public has…
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FedNow was officially launched on July 20th, which means there are now two real-time payments networks in the U.S., as the new instant-payments infrastructure debuts alongside The Clearing House’s RTP real-time platform. So, everyone’s going to jump into real-time payments, right? Well, maybe not right away. PYMNTS.com spoke to Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards about…
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New partner/clients include four of the Top 30 banks, two data centers, and two fraud review platforms Burlington, MA, August 10, 2023 – OrboGraph, a premier supplier of check processing automation and fraud detection software and services, announced the addition of three new Top 30 Bank customers, two data center partners, and two new fraud…
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Check fraud is growing quickly While check usage is down, it is certainly not out Investments in check security can make certain financial institutions more valuable to depositors The latest episode of The PaymentsJournal Podcast features Steve Bartels, Senior Director of Solutions Consulting at Q2, and Brian Riley, Co-Head of Payments at Javelin Strategy & Research, explaining…
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Check fraud and cyber fraud create a dangerous combination Financial institutions have seen check fraud double in the past year Knowing who to contact with a fraud claim is an important factor for banks being addressed The latest installment of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast features ABA’s Cybersecurity and Operational Risk VP Paul Benda and Certified…
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Twitter – or X, which is its new name (and the subject of some “sign controversy” recently at X’s San Francisco headquarters) – has made it known they are entering the payments realm, having begun the process of applying for regulatory licenses and development of the software needed. This is no real surprise, as Elon Musk…
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We recently posted a story from news station NBC10 of Philadelphia focusing on rising incidents of mail theft and physical assaults against mail carriers. As Frank Albergo — the National President of the Postal Police Officers Association and a speaker at the Check Fraud Roundtable in May in Charlotte — points out in the segment, it…
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Mail theft and check fraud is a hot topic within the banking industry, and mainstream media has picked up on the trend. Publications and news stations across the US report daily on specific occasions when this occurs, and news station NBC10 of Philadelphia recently did a deep-dive via their 10 Responds feature on the problem…
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