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Matthew Salisbury

Matthew Salisbury CEO at Honey Badger

Wangiri 2.0 scam. Is your business protected?

I know what you’re wondering. Wangiri. What the heck does that mean? It’s a Japanese word meaning ‘one (ring) and cut’. So called because fraudsters make one ring calls to consumers from high-rate overseas numbers. Curious consumers see a missed call from an overseas number and call it back, thus a call is made to the high-rate number and revenue ...

/security /crime Exposing Financial Crime

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What is Fintech as a service & the Impact of APIs on Fintechs?

Introduction to Fintech as a Service (FaaS) Fintech as a Service (FaaS) is a business model that enables companies to outsource financial technology (fintech) services to a third-party provider. This model provides companies with a more flexible and cost-effective way to access fintech services and improve their financial operations. Let's explore...

/security /wealth Financial Transformation

Delia Pedersoli

Delia Pedersoli COO at MultiPay Global

Fighting back against fraud: How the right Payment Service Provider can help

The UK has the highest level of credit card fraud in Europe, with over 134 card frauds per 1000 people and the average victim losing out to the tune of £8,833 according to think tank Social Market Foundation. As the vital link between acquiring and issuing banks, ensuring payments are made correctly, payment service providers (PSPs) have an importa...

/security /payments The Payments Business

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KYC API: How KYC as a service works

APIs provide rapid and scalable applications for banking, payments, and other businesses that require identity verification for AML and KYC compliance. In most countries, some firms are obliged by law to comply with AML and KYC. When such firms authenticate their consumers, APIs may provide a faster, simpler, and less expensive way to comply while ...

/security /identity Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Why Aadhaar eKYC transactions are prospering

Aadhaar OKYC transactions jumped 22% in Nov; Aadhaar Verification transactions grew 11% 28.75 Cr eKYC transactions conducted using Aadhaar in Nov Indian Residents’ use of Aadhaar is continuing to advance across the nation. Aadhaar was used to complete 28.75 crore eKYC transactions in November alone, a 22% increase from the prior month. By the end o...

/security /identity Banking and Lending Solutions

Simon Horswell

Simon Horswell Fraud Specialist Manager at Onfido

Five Fraudster’s New Year Resolutions

Increased online footfall and transactions mean more opportunities for fraudsters, especially when traffic peaks with holidays, sporting seasons and January sales, for instance. Fraudsters are adept at using peaks as camouflage, hiding in the traffic and using many techniques to perpetrate scams. Here’s a look at the tactics fraudsters are gravita...

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Thomas Mueller

Thomas Mueller Co-Founder & CEO at Rivero AG

Fraud increases among neo-banks - what’s going wrong - and how can banks mitigate risk?

Rates of fraud have continued to soar in the latest 3-year period studied by the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), and neo-banks account for the bulk of increases. This has confused industry observers as one of the benefits of neo-banks is reportedly greater transparency and control over transactions. However, it now appears likely that thes...

/security /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Omkar Nisal

Omkar Nisal Managing Director UK & Ireland at Wipro Ltd

Five key considerations on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

On September 24, 2020, the European Commission published the first drafted proposal for a Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) as part of the Digital Finance Package (DFP). The aim is to guide financial institutions through the complexities of crypto assets, blockchain technology, and digital operational resilience, as well as advising on a

/security /regulation Banking Regulations

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Using multi-channel solutions to prevent open finance fraud

We have been applying analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to fraud prevention solutions for over 20 years. Over this time, the financial services sector has completely transformed, with firms seeking to move away from siloed and disjointed datasets, rapidly digitising and turning to the cloud. But how has this impac...

/security /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Security audit of smart contracts: verifying DeFi

Once deployed, a lot of smart contracts cannot be easily changed. So, it would be wise to take a close look at potential weaknesses, exploits, and built-in mitigations when it’s not too late for changes. But look beyond the code. Smart contracts are immutable pieces of code that perform certain operations in blockchain networks or link different bl...

/security /crypto DeFi

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