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Fraud targeting accounts payable departments had been on the rise to begin with, but a new sense of urgency has taken hold in the wake of a recent incident that cost Facebook and Google $100 million.

Brazil has one of the world's worst payment fraud problems, which has come in handy for ClearSale as it tries to cut transaction decline rates for online payments globally. The Olympics also came in handy.

Gregory St. Angelo was part of a loan and tax credits scheme with other senior executives that funneled him more than $50 million, federal prosecutors said.

A large portion of business expensing, particularly travel and entertainment, takes place well outside of the office, making it tough for decision-makers to monitor, according to Yash Madhusudan, Co-Founder and CEO of Fyle.

As lawmakers meet this week to discuss artificial intelligence, they should work with regulators to create universal and workable definitions.

Readers respond to how Congress should address AI, concerns on Facebook's Libra and its logo, a report challenging card fraud prevention and more.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty in a New York mortgage fraud case — state charges that are beyond the reach of a presidential pardon.

The pressure on banks, financial institutions and payment service providers to act as effective gatekeepers in the fight against financial crime is intense. Real-time payments considerably complicates that challenge, writes Sophie Lagouanelle, head of solutions at Accuity.

Researchers found that stolen payment data has been used to finance terrorism, human trafficking and other organized crime. Their conclusion that card fraud needs to be taken more seriously by banks and card networks drew pushback from the financial industry.

As lawmakers meet this week to discuss artificial intelligence, they should work with regulators to create universal and workable definitions.

The wife of a jailed Azeri banker, the target of the U.K.’s first unexplained wealth order, spent almost 16 million pounds ($20.4 million) across Europe, including at Harrods and luxury boutiques, on 10 credit cards issued illegally by her husband’s bank.

Fraudsters are getting clever about beating authentication for returning users, says NuData Security's Robert Capps

Compliance can be complex and expensive, but failure puts merchants at risk, says FIME's Christian Damour.

In the U.K., next-level fraud types — involving technologies such as push payments and P2P — are gaining traction now that EMV has been in place for more than a decade.

Hackers are flocking to loyalty and rewards programs, pushing marketers to embed extra fraud technology to stem financial losses.

Amazon’s move pressures other merchants to add speed to e-commerce delivery while adding a few more steps to vet payments, writes Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies

An acquisition as large as Fiserv's deal to buy First Data has lots of moving parts, but one big piece may be a new First Data product that's designed to improve the vexing problem of payment approvals.

The fraud challenge faced by issuers and merchants alike has become increasingly complex over the last few years with the prevalence of e-commerce and cross-border payments. Visa's response to these trends has benefited heavily from the global scale it got by reabsorbing Visa Europe in 2016.

As bots dominate new internet traffic, their ability to help crooks launch account attacks and exploit personal information has never been higher, says NuData Security's Robert Capps.