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A Complete Overview Of Decentralized KYC Solutions

Pooja Choudhary
by Pooja Choudhary0
Social media and trade journals may seem to be awash in trends, but it takes time to sift through everything to find the ones that matter. This blog shall enlighten the KYC market, its data, and new tech of eKYC and digital solutions thereby in the decentralized market scenario. KYC......
CFPB Takes Action Against ACI Worldwide for Illegally Processing $2.3 Billion in Mortgage Payments that Homeowners Did Not Authorize
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CFPB Takes Action Against ACI for Illegally Processing $2.3 Billion in Mortgage Payments that Homeowners Did Not Authorize

Fintech News Desk
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ACI will pay a $25 million penalty for data handling practices that negatively impacted nearly 500,000 homeowners whose mortgages were serviced by Mr. Cooper The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an order against ACI Worldwide and one of its subsidiaries, ACI Payments, for improperly initiating approximately $2.3 billion in......
CFPB Issue Spotlight Analyzes "Artificial Intelligence" Chatbots in Banking
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CFPB Issue Spotlight Analyzes “Artificial Intelligence” Chatbots in Banking

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Poorly deployed chatbots can impede customers from resolving problems The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a new issue spotlight on the expansive adoption and use of chatbots by financial institutions. Chatbots are intended to simulate human-like responses using computer programming and help institutions reduce the costs of customer service agents.......
CFPB Action to Require Citizens Bank to Pay $9 Million Penalty for Unlawful Credit Card Servicing
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CFPB Action to Require Citizens Bank to Pay $9 Million Penalty for Unlawful Credit Card Servicing

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Citizens failed to properly manage and respond to customers’ credit card disputes and fraud claims Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reached a settlement to resolve allegations that Citizens Bank violated consumer financial protection laws and rules that protect individuals when they dispute credit card transactions. The CFPB alleges......
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Award-Winning Smart Card Cybersecurity Firm CardLab Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Italian Hi-Tech Company WiBioCard

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Danish high-security smart card provider CardLab ApS (“CardLab”) has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with WiBioCard, which has recently licensed CardLab’s biometric card technologies. The new partnership will see WiBioCard’s personnel located in Italy working closely alongside CardLab’s Denmark-based personnel to combine their respective solutions into a fully integrated card and......
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Truesec and Europol Join Forces To Fight Cybercrime

Fintech News Desk
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The cybersecurity company Truesec and Europol are joining forces to disrupt criminal businesses with the initiative “No More Ransom” – a global collaboration between law enforcement and other key players to help ransomware victims. To contribute, Truesec has developed a unique decryption tool that will help thousands of ransomware victims......
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City of Dallas Launches Free “Dallas Secure” Mobile Phone App To Protect Residents From Cybersecurity Threats

Fintech News Desk
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Dallas residents now have a new tool to protect their mobile devices from threats, just in time for the holiday shopping season. In partnership with Dallas-based Zimperium, the City of Dallas has announced the launch and public availability of “Dallas Secure,” a free mobile security application for Apple iOS and Android......
Carrington Mortgage Services Enters into Settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Carrington Mortgage Services Enters into Settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Carrington Mortgage Services is proud to have helped more than 134,000 consumers obtain relief during the COVID pandemic and, despite its business decision to settle, maintains that the CFPB’s position ignored key facts and the law Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC (Carrington) agreed to settle with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau......
Australia Tightens the Competition and Consumer Act with Stricter Penalties
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Australia Tightens the Competition and Consumer Act with Stricter Penalties

Sudipto Ghosh
by Sudipto Ghosh0
Last week, the Australian lawmakers passed the Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2022 to strengthen the existing  Competition & Consumer Act 2010. The new amendments to CCA 2010 would now attract harsher penalties for companies that indulge in unfair practices with the consumers and small businesses. Corporations found to contravene the......
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Checkout.com Launches Fraud Detection Pro To Combat Rise In Online Fraud

Fintech News Desk
by Fintech News Desk0
Checkout.com, the cloud-based payments service provider, today announces the next evolution in the fight against fraud with Fraud Detection Pro, a fully flexible solution used by businesses such as Curve and Delivery Hero to solve the rising problem of online payments fraud and optimise revenues. As the trend of consumers......
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