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January 18, 2021 / Last updated : January 18, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

News 4 San Antonio: New bank scams are using information from your social media to hook you

News 4 San Antonio: New bank scams are using information from your social media to hook you. “Local experts say scammers are using information from your social media to hook you and make you think an email is really from your bank. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, scammers know you’re plugged into your bank account […]

November 23, 2020 / Last updated : November 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

CNBC: Google moves into Venmo and bank territory with checking accounts and updated payment app

CNBC: Google moves into Venmo and bank territory with checking accounts and updated payment app. “The Mountain View, California-based company partnered with Citi and Stanford Federal Credit Union to launch the mobile bank accounts and said it plans to add 11 new partner institutions next year. Google Pay will also let users send peer-to-peer payments […]

October 24, 2020 / Last updated : October 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNN: Wells Fargo fires 100 employees for misrepresenting themselves to access Covid-19 relief funds

CNN: Wells Fargo fires 100 employees for misrepresenting themselves to access Covid-19 relief funds. “Wells Fargo has fired more than 100 employees for misrepresenting themselves to obtain money from a relief fund for small businesses, and whose actions may have amounted to defrauding the US Small Business Administration.”

September 29, 2020 / Last updated : September 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Exclusive: Deutsche Bank to close 20% of German branches in coronavirus shift (Reuters)

Reuters: Exclusive: Deutsche Bank to close 20% of German branches in coronavirus shift. “Deutsche Bank plans to shutter one in five branches in Germany as it seeks to save costs and capitalise on the changing habits of customers during the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said.”

July 20, 2020 / Last updated : July 20, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Computer Business Review: Coronavirus is challenger banks’ biggest challenge yet

Computer Business Review: Coronavirus is challenger banks’ biggest challenge yet. “Some digital-only banks were struggling even before the lockdown started. Nicu Calcea’s data report asks that as customers of the traditional high street banks turn to online and mobile banking, is Covid-19 killing off the pureplay challenger banks?”

July 17, 2020 / Last updated : July 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: Black Business Owners Had a Harder Time Getting Federal Aid, a Study Finds

New York Times: Black Business Owners Had a Harder Time Getting Federal Aid, a Study Finds. “A nonprofit sent Black and white ‘mystery shoppers’ to branches of 17 banks, where they asked for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. White customers got better treatment.”

June 30, 2020 / Last updated : June 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

MSN Money: Banks Have No Idea Who’s Creditworthy Anymore

MSN Money: Banks Have No Idea Who’s Creditworthy Anymore. “Lenders that are having a tough time spotting risky loan applicants are approving fewer borrowers for credit cards, auto loans and other consumer debt. They are also hunting for new data sets that could indicate who is in financial trouble and how much they need to […]

June 10, 2020 / Last updated : June 10, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Exclusive: ECB prepares ‘bad bank’ plan for wave of coronavirus toxic debt (Reuters)

Reuters: Exclusive: ECB prepares ‘bad bank’ plan for wave of coronavirus toxic debt. “European Central Bank officials are drawing up a scheme to cope with potentially hundreds of billions of euros of unpaid loans in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.”

May 31, 2020 / Last updated : May 31, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Exclusive: India may need to pump $20 billion into coronavirus-hit state banks – sources (Reuters)

Reuters: Exclusive: India may need to pump $20 billion into coronavirus-hit state banks – sources. “India may need to inject up to 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.81 billion) into its state-owned lenders as their pile of soured assets is expected to double during the coronavirus pandemic, three government and banking sources told Reuters.”

April 25, 2020 / Last updated : April 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Washington Post: How a family-owned Nebraska bank became a leader on coronavirus loans

Washington Post: How a family-owned Nebraska bank became a leader on coronavirus loans. “Union Bank & Trust is nowhere near the top of the banking leagues. Last year the family-owned institution, with 900 employees, was the nation’s 202nd largest bank by assets, according to the Federal Reserve. Yet 72 hours into the emergency lending program, […]

April 16, 2020 / Last updated : April 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Phys .org: A COVID-19 crisis looms in the mortgage industry, experts warn

Phys .org: A COVID-19 crisis looms in the mortgage industry, experts warn. “More than two years ago, [Nancy] Wallace and [Richard] Stanton again began raising the alarm that the mortgage landscape that emerged from the last crisis is dominated by ‘nonbank’ lenders who operate with little of their own capital or access to emergency cash. […]

December 14, 2019 / Last updated : December 14, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

CNET: Database exposes names of risky potential bank customers

CNET: Database exposes names of risky potential bank customers. “If your name’s on this list, banks will treat you with extreme caution. The database is supposed to be private, but it was found online, accessible to anyone with a web browser, a security researcher said Friday.”

February 9, 2019 / Last updated : February 9, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Krebs on Security: Phishers Target Anti-Money Laundering Officers at U.S. Credit Unions

Krebs on Security: Phishers Target Anti-Money Laundering Officers at U.S. Credit Unions. “A highly targeted, malware-laced phishing campaign landed in the inboxes of multiple credit unions last week. The missives are raising eyebrows because they were sent only to specific anti-money laundering contacts at credit unions, and many credit union sources say they suspect the […]

February 3, 2019 / Last updated : February 3, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Black Hats & White Collars: SEC EDGAR Database Hackers Revealed (Splunk)

Splunk: Black Hats & White Collars: SEC EDGAR Database Hackers Revealed. “Over the past year, I’ve been presenting research at security conferences regarding the increasingly cozy relationship between black hat hackers and white collar criminals. One of the cases I researched was a group of hackers targeting PR firms for non-public insider information that could […]

November 24, 2018 / Last updated : November 24, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

The Hindu: A new bank scam using Google Maps loophole

The Hindu: A new bank scam using Google Maps loophole. “Scamsters seem to have stumbled upon a gold mine in the form of a loophole in the Google Maps interface. Taking advantage of the fact that on Google Maps, an establishment’s contact details can be edited by anyone, a group of Thane-based con artists have […]

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