Old-fashioned check fraud is growing, and fraudsters find people to cash their checks — and tell them what to wear while doing it — through a popular messaging service.

The Minneapolis company previously disclosed an investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in connection with its management of prepaid cards for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Now the bank says the agency is considering a potential enforcement action.

More than 50 million people are caught up in modern slavery, according to the U.N. Hidden crimes like human trafficking and elder abuse are more common than most people think. Ian Mitchell at The Knoble, who led crime detection at several financial institutions, works with banks to find signs of abuse and help law enforcement to help victims and catch perpetrators, including among Super Bowl crowds.

The Community Bankers Association of Illinois is calling on regulators to issue guidance that would make large financial institutions toughen customer verification and be more cooperative in resolving disputes over falsified checks.

U.S. prosecutors in the Justice Department's fraud unit are looking into Silvergate Capital Corp.'s dealings with the fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research, according to people familiar with the matter.

JPMorgan Chase alleges in a lawsuit that the college-planning website Frank provided misleading information before the bank bought it. Experts say there were plenty of red flags from the beginning.

The company settled with the Federal Reserve after self-reporting that it had disbursed $1.1 million in wrongfully obtained Paycheck Protection Program loans.

In a recent survey, financial institutions named artificial intelligence their top priority for investments against increasingly sophisticated fraud.

The plaintiffs allege that the banks did not catch obvious red flags or implement proper safeguards such as requiring two employees to approve each transaction.

Sam Bankman-Fried has tried to suggest he didn't know what was happening at sister firm Alameda Research, which Caroline Ellison ran from Hong Kong while he was in the Bahamas. That casts his role in FTX's collapse as mismanagement rather than fraud. But Gary Wang, who was FTX's co-founder and based in the Bahamas with Bankman-Fried, doesn't fit into that picture.

The Paycheck Protection Program proved successful in providing small-business owners with funds to keep workers employed — but it was also a magnet for criminals. Here is a rundown of fraud probes, prosecutions and potential long-term consequences for commercial lending.

Mazars Group, the accounting firm used by the crypto giant Binance Holdings and other big players in the industry to vouch for their assets held in reserve, has halted all work for crypto clients, dealing a blow to an industry seeking to shore up confidence in the wake of FTX's collapse.

Customer outflows from Binance's cryptocurrency trading platform are slowing, according to blockchain data from two digital-asset analytics firms.

Danske Bank A/S admitted to fraud and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to end a long-running U.S. probe into money laundering at its Estonia branch, an embarrassing episode that led to the ouster of top management and pushed thousands of customers to leave.

Hanno Berger, a German lawyer dubbed the mastermind of Cum-Ex, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in part of a sprawling tax scandal that's robbed billions of euros from government coffers and embroiled some of Wall Street's biggest names

Former JPMorgan Chase gold and silver trader Christopher Jordan was convicted of wire fraud affecting a financial institution by a federal jury in Chicago, the latest win for U.S. prosecutors in their crackdown on illegal "spoofing" trades and market manipulation.

Citing a congressional report, SBA says it will investigate PPP operations at several fintechs, community banks and other participants. The review raises questions about plans to open up the agency's flagship loan-guarantee program to more nonbanks.

Markus Braun makes his first public appearance in court on Thursday, more than two years after his highflying digital-payment company Wirecard collapsed under the weight of fraud allegations.

U.S. authorities are asking crypto investors and trading firms that worked closely with FTX to hand over information on the company and its key figures, including founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the former head of his Alameda Research investment arm, Caroline Ellison.

Financial technology companies that distributed Paycheck Protection Program loans often employed lax oversight that allowed fraudsters or ineligible individuals to receive relief funded by taxpayers, a congressional report found.