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Vox ) • Investors Are Hungry for Risk—and Holding Record Cash Sums : Some analysts see the investor balances in money-market funds as a bullish sign for stocks and bonds. It’s a good time to be a worker and a bad time to be a consumer — the problem is most people are both. ( I found their families. (

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Why Hello Kitty Has A Credit File

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The money is being earmarked across a number of initiatives, designed to combat synthetic fraud. The price tag is enormous, as estimated by SentiLink and some of its partners, reaching as much as $2 billion annually — and that’s just for banks. Flavors Of Fraud.

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Brighterion CEO: How AI Can Stop Criminals Who Win By Gaming Banking Rules

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However, as Karen Webster noted, perhaps the most surprising outcome of the investigation is just how long this money laundering debacle managed to carry on. The question is why, after years of hearing about legislation and bank efforts to curb money laundering, we keep hearing about these scandals in the global news?

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Jumio CTO Paints A Portrait Of ‘IDV Nirvana’

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Their goal is to trick businesses into thinking they are legitimate customers so they can leverage credentials and money that aren’t truly theirs. The names of most people’s childhood pets and favorite teachers are now for sale on the black market. Data tagging is how ground truth is established.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. I had a little bit of money and I met Rob Kalin, the founder of Etsy. He had tried to raise money on the West Coast, was unsuccessful with that. None of the money we’ve made will matter. acquisition? WENGER: Yeah, exactly.

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The Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Prime Day And Its Aftermath 

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According to internal numbers from Amazon, this year’s Prime Day was its biggest shopping day ever – in fact, it was bigger than any previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. But sharp-eyed members noticed a glitch: The site had marked down almost all of the Prime Day-tagged camera equipment to around $94. It sold out quickly.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

Then, when I was 7-years-old, the guy who saved my life, because long story short, my mother moved away from my father, arguments over money, domestic abuse involving money. We were staying with her relative to save some money for her first home. When I was 5-years-old, they fought, she moved. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.