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The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Morgan House	Why So Few Ended Up in Jail After the Financial Crisis Banks took down the economy. Why they walked away unscathed.
Bank Systems & Technology November 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Obama Orders Creation of Financial Fraud Task Force The Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, an interagency initiative, will rely on the coordinated efforts of each member to prevent another financial crisis. The new task force replaces the Corporate Fraud Task Force.
Bank Systems & Technology June 17, 2010 Penny Crosman	Feds Have Arrested 485 for Mortgage Fraud 1,215 mortgage fraud cases are being investigated nationwide, responsible for $2.3 billion in losses.
CFO June 1, 2010 Marie Leone	Someone Is Up to No Good Test your knowledge of the latest trends in corporate fraud.
Bank Technology News March 2007 John Adams	Offline Fraud Continues to Flourish in an Online World Web fraud gets the headlines, but offline fraud accounts for a high percentage -- almost 70% -- of operating losses. It's a problem that IT pros ignore at their peril.
U.S. Banker September 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Security: The Inside Job Your employees wouldn't rip you off, right? Think again. Their theft will cost banks $2.4 billion this year.
U.S. Banker November 2007 Frank McKenna	For Mortgage Lenders, Taking the Profitability Road Now is the time for the mortgage industry to focus on rebuilding profitability.
Bank Systems & Technology August 2, 2005 Phil Britt	Keeping Up With Fraudsters As fraud schemes become more sophisticated, banks need to examine a wider array of data to identify fraud trends. That means investing in more sophisticated technology systems, adding personnel and employing additional fraud-fighting processes.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2003 Jim Middlemiss	Fifth Third Stays Seven 'Steps' Ahead of Fraud Bank implements seven new fraud-detection systems to fight check and ID fraud.
Bank Systems & Technology May 5, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Fraud Techniques Evolve in Parallel with Bank Products and Defenses As fraudsters' techniques evolve alongside the products and services offered by financial institutions, new steps must be introduced to stop them.
Bank Systems & Technology August 24, 2006 Nancy Feig	BITS Releases Insider Fraud Database BITS, a nonprofit consortium of 100 of the largest U.S. financial institutions, released its own insider fraud prevention service, which consists of a list of former financial institution employees who have compromised consumer information and/or knowingly caused financial losses.
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Grow	Did Big Lenders Cross The Line? Lawsuits assert some firms doctored loan documents.
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2006 Maria Woehr	Uncovering Crooked Claims Finding fraudulent claims can be challenging. But with the use of rules-based analysis, data mining and predictive modeling, insurers are waging a war on scam artists.
Insurance & Technology November 28, 2005 Maria Woehr	Experian Fights Fraud To combat fraud in the insurance industry, Experian has released Commercial Fraud Insight, which authenticates customer and claims information.
Bank Systems & Technology February 29, 2008 Nancy Feig	Internal Fraud Still a Danger as Banks Adjust Strategy Internal fraud occurs every day at banks across the world. New internal fraud-detection technologies allow banks to identify suspicious employee behavior.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Katie Kuehner-Hebert	Old Crimes, New Tactics Behold the counterfeit check -- the new face of bank fraud and other financial crimes.
Entrepreneur July 2006 Jacquelyn Lynn	Honesty Pays Insurance fraud is not only a crime - it's costly, too.
Insurance & Technology December 21, 2009 Nathan Conz	Insurers Leverage Data Mining and Predictive Analytics to Mitigate Increasingly Complex Fraud Schemes In the area of fraud mitigation technology, insurers are employing data mining and predictive analytics technologies in increasingly innovative ways to identify obscured data patterns and establish effective benchmarks for claims investigations.
U.S. Banker November 2001 Mark Fogarty	Unexpected Lovefest Some expected a turf war to erupt between mortgage bankers and Realtors as a result of the real estate industry's new ability to provide home finance. But the two groups are now lovey-dovey...
Bank Technology News September 2006	Homeland Insecurity One of the toughest battles for bankers may be in combating online security breaches and sophisticated money laundering schemes.
Bank Technology News October 2004 Holly Sraeel	Fraud is Rising, But Victims, Banks are Fighting It Talk about fraud in banking circles and one will inevitably hit a nerve.
Bank Systems & Technology August 2, 2005 Phil Britt	Fighting the New Face of Fraud Technology plays a critical role in banking fraud, both in creating new opportunities for fraud and offering new methods to defend against it. Financial services institutions must take a holistic approach to combating fraud.
InternetNews November 11, 2009	DoJ Busts Up Eastern European Hacking Ring Feds indict seven hackers and conspirators responsible for ripping off more than $9 million from an Atlanta-based credit card processing company.
PC Magazine May 16, 2007	Who Gets Hit Most by Online Fraud? Protect yourself now! Find out where and how most online fraud originates.
U.S. Banker July 2005 Holly Sraeel	Want to Make a CEO Wince? Talk About Fraud. When bankers refer to fraud in public, it often comes off as if the theft does not involve a human being. Behind the financial losses and data breaches are people-on both sides of the problem.
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Internet Crime Complaints Soared 33% in 2008 Driven by problems with e-commerce transactions and fraud, complaints skyrocketed last year.
Managed Care March 2006 John Carroll	New Tools to Detect Fraud Rely on Discovering Patterns The ability of the computer to find unexpected - and often unwelcome - patterns of utilization for health insurance is at the heart of today's fraud detection methods.
Bank Technology News July 2005	Securing Customer Data Gets Tougher Each Day When bankers refer to fraud publicly, it often comes off as if the theft does not involve human beings. But behind the recent spate of data breaches are people-on both sides of the problem. Want to make a CEO wince? Talk about fraud in real terms.
Bank Systems & Technology August 27, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Evolving Fraud Schemes Keep Pressure on Evolving Payments Instruments While some of the latest schemes borrow from scams past, today's fraud schemes are as sophisticated as banks' most advanced payments systems. And stopping them is still a challenge.
Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2010 Penny Crosman	Rise in Online Banking Fraud Costing Banks Customers, Study Says Ponemon Institute/Guardian Analytics study finds 40 percent of small and medium businesses change banks after a fraud incident.
BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 Nichols & Goldman	Tracking Stimulus Scamsters in Real Time Crowd sourcing and data scrubbers are part of the mix. A recovery.gov Web site features splashy interactive graphics to detail spending -- and urges online visitors to e-mail tips about suspected fraud.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Identity Fraud: ID Theft Victims, Losses Take Welcome Nosedive New account vulnerabilities are toughened, but 'vishing,' limited alerts practices, and consumers' misguided personal trust in acquaintances still leave the doors wide open.
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Jim Wagner	Fraud Meets Its Match on Internet The FBI and online job seeker giant Monster Worldwide lead an anti-Internet fraud initiative.
U.S. Banker December 2009 Glen Fest	It's a Jungle in There Financially distressed workers are becoming a prime fraud worry for banks. But is it enough to prompt more investment in prevention?
The Motley Fool March 27, 2007 Tim Beyers	Lock Your Digital Door Computer users logged more than 270,000 cases of potential Internet-based fraud during 2006, resulting in $198.4 million in losses. Digital thieves, like the real kind, have just one interest: separating you from your money. Don't let them.
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Jill Jusko	Not a Financial Exec? It's not only financial executives who could benefit from an awareness of fraud risks in their organizations.
U.S. Banker March 2011 Tim Grace	Mortgage Buybacks Point To Need for Better Analytics With mortgage fraud rising, the need for consistent, industry-wide fraud controls are a fundamental building block for improved loan quality.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006	New Products Experian Detects Mortgage Fraud... Fair Isaac Improves Predictions... Automated BSA Compliance...
Insurance & Technology August 16, 2010 Amelia Harnish	Analytics Improving Insurers' Claims Fraud Detection Efforts Fighting claims fraud still requires legwork, but anti-fraud technologies such as analytics are streamlining and improving the investigation process.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Employee Fraud Not Being Properly Addressed By Financial Industry, Government, Survey Says Financial institutions widely believe employee fraud to be driven by increased access to technology, poor hiring and screening practices, and organized crime, according to a new survey.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Mortgage Securities: Slow MBS Market Hikes Fraud Risk Investment banks that buy mortgage-backed securities have a deeper worry than the billion-dollar estimate of fraud in lending each year. The fear is that it could be much worse. Technology vendors are selling products that ferret out fraud in secondary market pools.
InternetNews June 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Launches Effort to Fight Cyber Fraud Software giant teams with National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance to power a new reporting system taking aim at Internet fraud and theft.
Entrepreneur June 2005 Melissa Campanelli	Cyber Alert! These simple tools can keep your e-tail business safe from payment fraud.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Holly Sraeel	ID Theft Needs Little Fuel to Fan The Flames. Or Does It? With financial crime -- particularly cybercrime -- becoming more sophisticated among for-profit criminals, some industry observers argue that ID fraud is rising, and that many victims are still unaware of it.
Bank Technology News June 2001 Karen Epper Hoffman	Vendors Take Aim at Online Crooks Neural nets help combat payment fraud...
Wall Street & Technology May 29, 2008 Melanie Rodier	The Need for Holistic Fraud Management Recent incidents prove that firms must take a holistic approach to risk management in order to effectively detect and prevent fraud.
Bank Systems & Technology April 13, 2010 Matt Gunn	ID Theft, Card Fraud Top Consumer Concerns, Unisys Survey Finds Banks need to go beyond "traditional" fraud prevention efforts, report authors find.
CFO January 1, 2005	Ten Questions for Barry Minkow An interview with the current head of the Fraud Discovery Institute who also served more than seven years in prison for the infamous ZZZZ Best scam. This month his new book, Cleaning Up, debuts.