Video: Top fintech stories this week – 06 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Financial Crime & Fraud
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 29 November 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
FIS integrates IBM to help clients counter fraud
IBM Safer Payments has been installed in FIS’s P2P solutions
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 22 November 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 15 November 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
AML start-up Silent Eight raises $6.2m in Series A funding
The round included Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures.
Standard Chartered taps Quantexa to boost AML controls
Dynamic entity resolution and network analytics to be implemented at the bank.
Cryptocurrencies and the critical vulnerability of a 51% attack
The processes, the vulnerabilities, and the dangers broken down.
UniCredit reports data breach affecting three million accounts
The data leak stems from a four-year old file.
Finovate Podcast: Epsiodes 1-10
Catch up on the latest Finovate Podacast espisodes.
Libra: Already a victim of fraud
According to the Facebook model, you steal a little and they bank the ad revenue.
Millennials more likely to report fraud than older generations, finds FTC
People aged 20-30 happier to report scams than those over 40.
Sibos 2019: Final wrap-up of talks, interviews and daily news
See our final wrap-up of the London-hosted four day event!
FICO fights financial crime with Falcon X
A unified environment for the detection and investigation of both fraud and financial crimes.
Banking Technology September 2019 issue out now
Thriving in a hyper-connected world.
eBook: How to detect the 7 types of document and identity fraud
Master the art of fraud detection with this free eBook from Onfido.
Wild West to crypto best: How compliance separates cowboys from champions
Major players will be forced into closer collaboration with regulators.
Top fintech stories this week – 16 August 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Desjardins spends CAD 70m related to data breach
It’s offered the affected accounts a credit monitoring plan and identity theft insurance.
Nasdaq uses AI to root out stock-market abuse
It detects irregular trading patterns and alerts officials according to machine-learning.
CFTC charges trader with spoofing in financial futures markets
The filing and settling charges are against the trader, Benjamin Cox.
Dos and don’ts of sanction screening
Regulators seek to send a strong message to financials if they drop the ball on sanctions screening.
Equifax to pay up to $700m to settle data breach
The records of at least 147 million people were exposed in the incident.
Banking Technology July/August 2019 issue out now
Drawing the curtains on a bright tomorrow.
Anti-fraud firm Bleckwen kicks it off with $10m funding
A great way to come out of stealth.
Desjardins announces internal security breach
The personal information of 2.9 million members was disclosed.
KnowBe4 reaches $1bn valuation with latest investment round
The cybersecurity firm has raised a further $300 million.
Synapse receives $33m for back-end fintech
The San Francisco-based start-up expects integrations with Visa and MasterCard.
Verint Engage 2019: AI, security and genius hacker stories
How changing a phone number can change everything (and cost you millions).
BlueVoyant gets $82.5m funding for cybersecurity analytics
Bringing the total funding to $207.5m.
Dashlane closes $110m funding for password protection
And appoints new CMO.
Top fintech stories this week – 24 May 2019
TransferWise just became even bigger, Nuvei Bidco acquires SafeCharge, and more!
Deutsche Bank’s suspicious transaction reporting hit by software glitch
The problem has prevented flagging for almost a decade.
Data privacy firm QEDIT expands reach with three new partners
Follows QEDIT’s $10 million Series A investment round.
Crypto exchange Binance falls victim of $41m hack
It has since stopped trading to keep the market under control.
Avant settles FTC unfair loan servicing charges for $3.85m
The online lender faced multiple charges of “deceptive” practices.
Dashlane raises $30m to up password protection
Dashlane is expanding its horizons with new features like password breach alerts and monitoring.
White paper: FICO for fintech – Fraud and Compliance
Improve CX by building an agile defence ecosystem against financial crime.
Varo Money gets NICE AML tech
AML and KYC for all mobile needs.
Tech giant SAS commits to £1bn AI investment in three years
It aims to develop new AI skills as well as teach customers how to use them.
