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Fraud and Identity news

Fraud and identity covers how financial firms decide who someone is and whether a transaction should go through. Fintechbits follows identity verification and KYC, account takeover and synthetic identity, authorised push payment fraud and the liability rules around it, chargebacks, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and anti-money-laundering. Coverage includes Trulioo, Socure, Sardine, Alloy, Feedzai and the banks and processors deploying them, plus the enforcement actions that follow when controls fail. Deepfakes and AI-generated documents are covered here, because verification is where they land first. Compliance reporting and supervisory technology sit under regtech.

Latest developments

In October, Basware closed its purchase of payment fraud specialist Trustpair, after Stakk closed its US$63 million ParaScript deal in September. In September, Binance.US chose Socure for identity verification and fraud screening, Socure added checks at Circle's Arc Onramp, and Aeropay cut onboarding to a phone number and two clicks. Socure's mDL verification followed in October, after five US regulators said a digital driver's license can satisfy bank ID rules. Visa's upgraded A2A Protect, its first in-market product built on Featurespace technology, gives banks a real-time fraud score on account-to-account transfers. Elliptic data powered a US Secret Service freeze of $52.8 million linked to Xinbi Guarantee.

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