Tagged: financial crime

October 31, 2023 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Featurespace, the enterprise grade technology that prevents fraud and financial crime, has launched TallierLTM– the Large Transaction Model (LTM). TallierLTM, a foundation AI technology for the payment and financial services industry, “is a large-scale, self-supervised, pre-trained model designed to power the next generation of AI… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The most common scams this year have been revealed – “with more than seven in 10 adults targeted by scams in the last 12 months, being hit on average three times each week – over 150 times a year.” Scams through digital platforms, social media… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial superapp with more than 35 million customers worldwide, has revealed a significant expansion to its Financial Crime (FinCrime) headcount, doubling its size since 2021. Recognizing the critical role of human intelligence in fraud detection and prevention, alongside technology and AI, Revolut… Read More

October 13, 2023 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To give even more visibility to security and empower people to identify possible financial scams, Nubank (NYSE:NU) announces the campaign #PareceMasNãoÉoNubank (it looks like Nubank, but it isn’t). Through educational videos on major digital platforms, the company seeks to alert its customers to everyday situations… Read More

October 12, 2023 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider empowering the world’s leading enterprises to Build for Change, announced the Pega Financial Crime and Alerts Investigation Management Accelerator, a new solution that helps financial institutions manage the rising number of risk alerts and more efficiently orchestrate… Read More

September 9, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Exiger, a SaaS company that has transformed the manner in which corporations, government agencies, and banks handle supply chains, declared its intention to sell its renowned Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) division to Capgemini, a predominant business and tech transformation service firm. The conclusion of this… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Metro Bank’s ‘Scam of the Month’ of August 2023 is a warning “about the rise in malware attacks against UK bank customers.” Malware, or malicious software, is “designed by criminals to compromise devices including computers, laptops, and mobile phones.” Globally, 5.5 billion malware attacks “were… Read More

August 25, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fenergo, the provider of digital solutions for client lifecycle management (CLM), released its half-year annual findings on global financial institution enforcement actions, revealing a sharp 88% decline in monetary penalties collected in H1 2023 compared to H1 2022. U.S. financial institutions continued to lead in… Read More

July 25, 2023 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of the biggest challenges faced by regulated and non-regulated companies is assessing whether or not another business is “safe to work with,” according to an update from ComplyAdvantage. Existing approaches rely “on manual research across multiple siloed sources.” This is time-consuming and “fails to… Read More

July 20, 2023 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, a provider of financial crime and risk management solutions, is introducing Railgun, its next-generation AI engine designed to target and intercept financial fraud before it can occur. In order to scale, today’s risk engines force financial institutions to limit the data they use to… Read More

July 13, 2023 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

2023 so far has been a year of “recovery” for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30, the team at Chainalysis noted. And that’s not the only “good news” for… Read More

July 8, 2023 @ 3:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Apple has reportedly removed several malicous lending apps targeting unsuspecting users in India. The apps had allegedly used unethical methods in order to collect repayments, like threatening to send deepfake nudes to the borrowers’ personal contacts. In the last week, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has removed various… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FullCircl, the Customer Lifecycle Intelligence (CLI) platform that helps financially regulated businesses do better business, faster, and ComplyAdvantage, the firm focused on financial crime intelligence, announced a new partnership that will create a best-in-class onboarding and customer lifecycle management solution. When companies integrate with FullCircl… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Anti-Scam Centre will be coordinating an investment scam fusion cell in order to address the growing problem of investment-related scams, which are now costing Australian consumers well over $1 billion a year. The fusion cell will reportedly be led by the ACCC and… Read More

July 3, 2023 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Unit21, the risk and compliance infrastructure company, is pleased to share its $45 million Series C funding led by Tiger Global and South Park Commons in 2022. The funding has “supported the growth of the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium, which is experiencing a surge in… Read More

July 1, 2023 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, which claims to be the leader in blockchain intelligence solutions, released the Illicit Crypto Ecosystem Report, a detailed guide to the complex dynamics of crypto crime. The new report “identifies over 40 types of criminal activity, and reveals that a seismic shift in… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Resistant AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning security company that protects financial services from financial crime, announced it has “expanded its Series A funding to $27.6 million, having raised an additional $11 million investment from Notion Capital.” This adds to the existing funding… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The dramatic rise of cryptocurrency theft during the last couple years has become a serious concern for US authorities, who are increasing their efforts to crackdown on bad actors and illicit crypto-related activities. This past year, crypto-focused hackers have reportedly been able to steal around… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Elliptic – the global firm focused on crypto-asset risk management – has released a landmark report to equip compliance and law enforcement teams with the necessary tools to combat the next frontier of crypto crime. Elliptic’s flagship Typologies Report – which remains “the only comprehensive… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AMLYZE, a RegTech company specializing in anti-financial crime solutions for FinTechs, neo-banks and crypto businesses, is pleased “to announce its strategic collaboration with Salt Edge, a leading open banking platform.” This commercial partnership “aims to enhance AMLYZE and Salt Edge’s client offering by leveraging both… Read More