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Short-term & Long-term Implications of Real-time Payments

October 22, 2019

The US real-time payments network currently reaches about 50% of the population, and was on track, via private sector channels, to provide complete coverage by the end of next year, as noted in an article at Forbes.com by Ike Brannon, a senior fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation.

Deep Dive: Financial Crime & Fraud in the Age of Cybersecurity

October 17, 2019

Want to go deep on financial fraud and crime, and learn the difference between the two while also learning about the role of modern cybersecurity tools in curtailing both? Get comfortable and spend some time with this comprehensive article from McKinsey & Company covering Financial crime and fraud in the age of cybersecurity. Their analysis…

OrboGraph Joins NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry’s First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem

October 16, 2019

Partnering with the X-Sight Marketplace, OrboGraph to deliver image analysis and recognition technologies for fraud prevention Hoboken, N.J., September 30, 2019 – Helping financial services organizations keep up with a changing market landscape, NICE Actimize, a NICE business (Nasdaq: NICE) and leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, today announced that OrboGraph has joined the X-Sight Marketplace, the industry’s first…

Traditional Fraud Prevention Falls Short in Age of AI

October 9, 2019

Paymnts.com reported recent data (from West Monroe Partners) that found 77 percent of banks are already putting AI solutions to use in some way. Count Chase as one of the forefront adopters of Artificial Intelligence solutions and technology. Chase is embracing AI and ML to help customers conduct business while preventing fraudsters from making off with data or financial…

AI and the Resurrection of Moore’s Law

September 26, 2019

Moore’s Law famously states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, though the cost of computers is halved. A new essay on Medium.com explores how Moore’s Law had actually been “phasing out” for a period of time: Moore’s Law, one of the fundamental laws indicating the exponential progress in the…

Cashing Checks: Like Gold in Your Pocket – Ask This NFL Star

September 17, 2019

Checks are still ubiquitous across generations. They remain popular, and they are — in spite of repeated premature eulogies — still alive and well in the world of treasury and B2B. Let’s say you have a check payment from a friend, or you’re running a small business on check payments, or you’re still getting a…

TV News Reports “New” Mobile RDC Check Fraud Scam

September 11, 2019

The ability of fraudsters to create an image of a check is not necessarily a new technique. What is newsworthy is accessibility.

Cloud Computing: Now a Standard FinTech Tool

August 27, 2019

It seems like not so long ago cloud computing was a nifty pie-in-the-sky idea (see what we did there?) that we’d eventually embrace along with personal jet packs and resorts on the moon. While the jet packs and moon lodgings are still off in the future, let’s make one thing clear: cloud computing is not…

The Benefits of Automation at Scale

August 22, 2019

As reported at McKinsey.com, an analysis by the McKinsey Global Institute (covering more than 800 jobs and over 2,000 work activities) showed that: Globally, almost half the activities employees perform—which account for nearly USD 16 trillion in wages—could potentially be automated using existing proven technologies. Automation will transform far more jobs than it will eliminate.…

Check Fraud: What It Can Teach Banks About the Future of Instant Payments

August 20, 2019

Pymnts.com features a podcast with Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards and Karen Webster discussing the new risk of fraud related to remote mobile check deposits. “Mobile check capture fraud is now escalating so badly that some banks are thinking about shutting it off, because the losses just aren’t worth it,” Edwards states. It’s an interesting…