Many compliance regulations such the Red Flags Rule, USA Patriot Act, and ESIGN require specific identity elements to be verified and specific high risk...
Cell phone use on the rise A Wikipedia list of cell phone usage by country showed that as of December 2009, the U.S. had...
By: Staci Baker According to Wikipedia, mobile banking is defined as, “a term used for performing balance checks, account transactions, payments, credit applications, etc....
By: Kari Michel Lending institutions are more challenged today than ever before when assessing credit risk to find creditworthy consumers. Since 2006, the start of...
By: Kristan Frend According to the 2011 Identity Theft Assistance Center Outlook (ITAC), new forms of small business identity theft are emerging. This shouldn’t be...
By: Kristan Frend As my colleague Margarita Lim discussed in her December 3rd article, the SSA announced that it will change how social security numbers...
By: Ken Pruett The majority of the customers I meet with use some sort of Velocity Checks to assist with their Fraud and Compliance process. However,...
By: Andrew Gulledge Bridgekeeper: “What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” King Arthur: “What do you mean? An African or European swallow?” Here...
By: Andrew Gulledge I hate this question. There are several reasons why the concept of an “average fraud rate” is elusive at best, and...
A recent article in the USA Today titled, “Jobs rebound will be slow”*, outlines state-by-state forecasts for the United States, as released by Moody’s...
By: Margarita Lim It’s the holiday season and a festive time of year. Colorful Christmas lights and decorations, holiday songs, all of these things...
The U.S. Senate passed legislation recently that would exempt certain businesses from complying with the Red Flags Rule. Sponsored by Senator John Thune (R-SD),...
By: Margarita Lim Recently, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it will change how Social Security numbers (SSN) will be issued, with a...
As the December 31st deadline approaches for FTC enforcement of the Red Flags Rule, we still seem quite a ways off from getting out...
By: Kari Michel As consumers and businesses continue to experience financial hardship, the likelihood of continued bankruptcy filings is fairly strong. Data from the...
