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The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

Arvin Abraham
26 Apr 2023

On 27 March 2023, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance ...

FinCrime outlook 2023: ChatGPT, deepfakes and the same old scams

FinCrime outlook 2023: ChatGPT, deepfakes and the same old scams

Níamh Curran
23 Jan 2023

2022 saw a number of scams hit the top of Finextra’s headlines. Research found that 8% of consumer...

Netflix’s Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard and the fintech that deceived us all

Netflix’s Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard and the fintech that deceived us all

Sehrish Alikhan
05 Dec 2022

One of the largest event’s to shake the fintech world over the past few years was the collapse of th...

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

Finextra Research
31 Oct 2022

This is an extract from the Finextra Research and Mastercard report ‘Seeking Approval - Acquirers V...

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

Thomas Cattee
06 Jul 2022

This article follows a 7 April 2021 article titled: Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financi...

Financial services businesses must stop putting Customer Due Diligence on the backburner

Financial services businesses must stop putting Customer Due Diligence on the backburner

Simon Mansell
15 Mar 2022

Financial crime challenges even the most diligent of organisations. During the Covid-19 pandemic, fr...

Five behaviours that indicate a social engineering scam

Five behaviours that indicate a social engineering scam

Níamh Curran
17 Sep 2021

Social engineering and authorised push payment (APP) scams have been on the rise. For banks this cre...

The future of payments: New assets - new security challenges

The future of payments: New assets - new security challenges

Hamish Monk
28 Jun 2021

By some, blockchain technology is considered a strong means of combatting rising cases of chargeback...

Leveraging fraud and risk data to enhance customer experience

Leveraging fraud and risk data to enhance customer experience

Hamish Monk
16 Jun 2021

In the wake of the widespread shift to digital banking and commerce caused by national lockdowns due...

Tech and Crime Series: Has the FCA bitten off more than it can chew with its NatWest Prosecution?

Tech and Crime Series: Has the FCA bitten off more than it can chew with its NatWest Prosecution?

Thomas Cattee
13 Apr 2021

News broke on Tuesday 16 March 2021 that the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) has started cri...

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime

Thomas Cattee
07 Apr 2021

News broke on 6 March 2021 that John McAfee (“McAfee”) has been charged in the US with conspiracy to...

Capital One: What its 390 million USD fine tells us about AML regulation

Capital One: What its 390 million USD fine tells us about AML regulation

Paige McNamee
23 Feb 2021

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, announced in January 2021 that Capital One woul...