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Black Friday and Cyber Monday up the ante for payment crime, but there are steps retailers and payment companies can take, according to OneSpan’s Will LaSala.

In a plea agreement, Kam Wong consented to forfeit and repay more than $9.8 million embezzled from the New York credit union. He is scheduled to be sentenced in April 2019.

The Massachusetts senator said the government’s findings bolster allegations that the servicer steered borrowers into expensive student loan forbearance plans.

Using machine learning to analyze payment data, the latest technology automates workflow and decisions, making fraud detection quicker and more efficient, writes Steven Goddard, product manager for risk at The ai Corporation (ai).

Société Générale pays more than $1 billion for working with Cuba and others; Fed vice chair in line for global regulator chief role.

The French bank was hit with the fine after it was found to have unsafe practices that violated sanctions against Cuba and other sanctioned countries.

The German lender was a correspondent bank for the Tallinn, Estonia, branch of Danske Bank that is the focus of multiple international investigations.

The agency's mortgage insurance fund has big potential shortfall; Howard Wilkinson can tell U.S. regulators and law enforcement agencies what he knows.

Credit unions are well positioned to serve small businesses, but they'll lose that opportunity if they're not adequately protecting those members' cash flow.

California-based America's Christian Credit Union's efforts earned it a 2018 Best Practices Award.

Payday lenders argue that banks cut ties with their industry due to pressure from biased and hostile regulators. But the reality, in some cases, may be more nuanced.

The Justice Department is seeking information about potential transactions the banks may have handled for a small Danske branch in Estonia that’s at the center of one of the biggest money-laundering investigations in history, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors are unlikely to buy Goldman's rogue banker defense, observers say; survey predicts recession within two years.

Will prosecutors believe a rogue banker was behind Malaysia fraud?; banks that changed standards in Q3 were more likely to ease underwriting.

The bank recently notified an upstate New York man that he was wrongly denied a mortgage modification, and enclosed a $25,000 check. But details of what went wrong have been hard to come by.

With fraud rising alongside mobile deposit usage, credit union executives needed a way to solve the problem without making the process burdensome to employees and members.

A judge dismissed two of the six counts against the Mass.-based credit union, meaning DFCU will join several other CUs nationwide facing similar suits.

Top executives at Advance America acknowledged that anti-money-laundering concerns at banks were likely the cause of account terminations, even as they publicly blamed a stealth regulatory campaign.

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PNC is piloting IDEMIA’s motion code card which offers a dynamic CVV2 security code for its commercial clients in an effort to combat card not present fraud.