Coinbase taken to court, twice
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has landed in more hot water with two federal class action lawsuits.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has landed in more hot water with two federal class action lawsuits.
A never-ending cycle in the good guy vs bad, but good folk are now gaining ground.
Guaranteed fraud prevention technology for Corra’s high-end enterprise retail customers.
New industry code on the way to deal with consumer complaints about APP scams.
With a deadline of 30 April 2018.
UK firm will help Atos combat identity theft and cybercrime.
Three “fraudulent remittances” – sent via correspondent banks to accounts in Dubai, Turkey and China.
Russian central bank disclosed the information… very discreetly.
New round takes digital identity authentication company’s total funding to $93.6 million.
Canada’s FirstOntario Credit Union looks for help in fight against fraud and cybercrime.
Transnational criminal gang responsible for more than $530 million in losses from cybercrimes.
Did you know that 75% of mobile apps would fail a basic security test?
Massachusetts-based bank plans to become a digital-first entity.
Examining the latest weapon cybercriminals have acquired – data masking.
Including data hacks of Equifax and JP Morgan Chase as well as online security tips.
But it will compensate more than $423 million to 260,000 users who lost out.
Running undetected for over four months.
Office for Professional Body AML Supervision is unleashed.
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Initiative aims to protect mobile users from fraud.
Will power GlobalOnePay’s Sentinel Defend, a fraud detection and scoring engine.
When the gold rush is on, perhaps it’s better to sell picks and shovels to the miners.
Starting off the new year with a new chief financial officer – Jonathan Crossfield.
US independent robo advisor Blooom unveils new Suspicious Activity Alerts feature.
The two companies will offer integrated, real-time fraud prevention solutions for e-commerce payments for merchants in MENA.
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
More bite-size Bitcoin and blockchain news.
An overview of the most important threats in the payments landscape.
Plans to apply tighter rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing on cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
Are you suspicious? This is a key question at the heart of efforts to tackle money laundering: if you work for a bank or other financial institution and have suspicions money laundering is happening, you have a legal duty to speak up.
Risk management firm Simility locks in $17.5 million in new funding, with help from PayPal.
Will bring the Swiss fintech’s anti-fraud solutions to FIs in the Middle East.
Recent cyberattacks, such as the October 2017 Swift attack, show how vulnerable financial firms across the globe are to the machinations of hackers.
BS/2, a Lithuanian banking technology company, and VisionLabs, a face recognition software provider, have teamed up to fight financial crime by offering contactless identification for self-service terminals. The duo will offer an integration solution – using BS/2’s ATMeye.iQ, a self-service video surveillance and fraud prevention system, and VisionLabs’ LUNA face recognition platform. The solution uses […]
Quickly following on from yesterday’s (30 November) blockchain and Bitcoin round-up, here’s more action. Features money laundering in Japan; Coinsource ATMs in Georgia; Cardano Foundation, IOHK and Emurgo teaming up; and PwC in Hong Kong. Over in Japan, Kyodo and Jiji news sites have reported 170 cases of suspected money laundering linked to cryptocurrencies were […]
To date, there hasn’t been a way to understand if online users are being compromised or to be sure precisely what they are seeing whilst visiting and interacting with a web page. We know that endpoint security and anti-viruses fail and online users can be infected even with all the precautions that they may take. Server-side security is now very mature and excellent progress has been made in that particular field.
That Friday feeling isn’t complete without another round of the latest blockchain and Bitcoin news! Following on from yesterday (23 November) our latest covers Globitex, Billion and Bitcoin Gold.
From major crimes to KYC times. Our latest blockchain and Bitcoin round-up features Tether, Metal, Deutsche Bank and IBM. Digital currency firm Tether is feeling under the weather as it has reported that “funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet through malicious action by an external attacker”. The amount is a rather large […]
New research from Experian claims fraud is now the UK’s most common criminal offence, much to the dismay of thugs and hoodlums everywhere, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology‘s sister publication). The company’s Annual Fraud Indicator 2017 estimates the annual cost of fraud in the UK is £190 billion, exceeding the total gross domestic product of 148 […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing some extracts from a new crime thriller, Trading Down, by Stephen Norman, long serving CIO/CTO of RBS Global Markets. Here, in the third and final extract, we return to the action at the Hamilton Datacentre crisis.