Tagged: fraud

August 4, 2021 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges alleging an unregistered securities offering in regards to digital assets by Uulala. The SEC simultaneously announced a settlement with the company along with its founders Oscar Garcia and Matthew Loughran. According to the SEC, more than… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a keynote speech that focused on fraud and financial crime at a conference in Asia, Carmen Chu, Executive Director (Enforcement and AML), Hong Kong Monetary Authority, discussed anti-money laundering and financial crime risk issues and the ability of authorities to address these problems. While… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 3:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged California resident Charlie Abujudeh with running microcap fraud schemes targeting retail investors. According to today’s complaint filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Abujudeh was part of a group who between… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 4:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed fraud charges against Rahulkumar M. Patel regarding an offer of securities that was conducted on an investment crowdfunding site. According to the SEC, Patel created a company DNA Lodging East Hartford LLC, to renovate and reopen a… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Los Angeles based Verifi, a company that claims it has been leading the dispute management and payment protection sector for sellers and issuers since 2005, notes that by now, sellers may have realized that the consumer trend “away from in-store shopping and toward e-commerce is… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced fraud charges against Aron Govil of Jacksonville, Florida, for defrauding investors in two companies he controlled, Cemtrex Inc. and Telidyne Inc. Allegedly, Govil, the controlling shareholder and executive director of Cemtrex, misappropriated over $7 million of investor… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nethone, which has raised $6.7 million in capital, notes that its passive behavioral biometrics enables online or digital businesses to prevent more than 95% of account takeovers (ATO) – which are cyber threats or attacks that have been spreading across the globe at an alarming… Read More

July 13, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Brexit has done little to shift UK consumer spending back home, the latest two chapters of emerchantpay’s New World, One Market Report shows. The study, which surveyed more than 2,000 British consumers, analyzes consumer behavior as some societies begin their emergence from the pandemic. When… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 2:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an international provider of real-time payments and digital payment software applications, reveals that it has teamed up with Swedbank, a leading issuing and acquiring bank in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The company has contributed to a 55% decrease in payment… Read More

June 30, 2021 @ 6:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Californian Matthew J. Skinner and five of his companies for conducting four unregistered and fraudulent real estate offerings between 2015 and 2020. The companies involved are Empire West Equity Inc., Bayside Equity LP, Longacre Estates LP, Freedom Equity… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 5:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Israel-based nSure.ai has raised a $6.8 million Seed round led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, Kamet (an AXA backed VC), Moneta Seeds and other individual investors. nSure.ai is a “predictive AI fraud protection company” that services digital goods such as gift cards, prepaid debit cards, software… Read More

June 14, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA), a regulatory body of the European Union that’s headquartered in Paris, released a report, earlier this week, on the data offered by payment service providers (PSPs) on their readiness to apply strong customer authentication (SCA) for the set of payment… Read More

June 10, 2021 @ 6:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline (Euronext: WLN), the European leader in payments and transactional services firm, has teamed up with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in order to integrate Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection into Worldline’s digital commerce payments solution. Online fraud has increased considerably during the COVID-19 crisis and resulting economic… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 11:48 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

Lithuania’s central bank has revoked the license of UAB Finolita Unio, a local Fintech, on charges of violating anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist financing rules. Finolita had received a license in 2019 from the Lithuanian central bank to execute “payment transactions” and issue, distribute and redeem electronic… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With fraudulent activities on the rise and malicious actors becoming a lot smarter and more sophisticated in navigating online systems, it has become quite critical for payments and financial services providers to make sure they’ve got the right cybersecurity measures in place to combat online… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

While the tactics may change, the goal of fraudsters in financial services remains the same: Separating hard-working individuals and corporations from their money. The emergence of the internet, and digital financial services, has created a new vector in the fight with criminals and those that… Read More

June 5, 2021 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC), a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, recently revealed that its UK division had introduced a fraud awareness app to offer businesses or companies up-to-the-minute or the latest updates on potential scams. HSBC, which is the second… Read More

May 29, 2021 @ 2:52 pm By Martin Cheek  |  

In an effort to mitigate the effects of Covid-related shutdowns, the US government poured trillions of dollars into relief programs, offering loans to businesses in need and sending checks to people whose income qualified them for aid. However, without adequate controls in place, there was… Read More

May 24, 2021 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA) has joined with multiple traditional financial services associations to advocate on behalf of implementing an API structure to mitigate fraud on lending. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commissioner of the IRS and the… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based consumer group Which? has asked local banking institutions and building societies to release figures on the number or percentage of clients they refund for authorized push payment (APP) fraud. APP scams have been increasing during the Coronavirus crisis, with losses reaching almost half a… Read More