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Your Merchant Has an MCC, But Do You Understand the Business?

There is a specific memory I think about whenever a merchant category code (MCC) starts doing more work than four

Noa Singerman / November 5, 2026

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Why Healthcare Fraud Prosecutions Don’t Keep Up with the Crime

From September 2016 to May 2018, a nurse in Carthage, Tennessee named Heather Marks prescribed nearly a million opioid pills

Randall Casciello / November 5, 2026

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Graph-Based Fraud Detection: Why Closing Accounts Doesn’t Stop Fraud Networks

On October 19, 2022, Bank of America restricted an account associated with Hailong Zhu over suspected fraud. The next day,

Maya Fudim / November 2, 2026

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Mosi Oa Tunya Zimbabwean gold piece: one among many money laundering methods

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Top 5 Unusual Dark Web Money Laundering Methods

In the modern world, transferring value means moving money and the process has become less physical over time. People started

Urriolagoitia Miner / October 27, 2026

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The Revolut Breach: One More Thought on Risk

I am writing this in September, while everyone is still talking about the Revolut breach. By the time you read

Noa Singerman / October 8, 2026

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Trust Is a Currency; the Credit Card Networks Set the Exchange Rate

Risk prevention in digital payments is mostly about confidence. Visa and Mastercard aren’t in the business of picking who to

Amber McGirr / October 6, 2026

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The Prior Authorization Paradox in Healthcare Fraud

Prior authorization was supposed to be a main abuse control for healthcare. Yet at the same time Medicare rolled out

Randall Casciello / September 30, 2026

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Context & Why Capturing Contextual Memory Is Crucial in the AI Era

I stumbled across something unexpected while researching the app logic behind an account takeover spike for a consulting client: a

Maya Fudim / September 29, 2026

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How to Speak Dark Web: Illicit terms, products and services

Language is Fluid Language is dynamic and words change meaning over time. In the past, geographic distance and lack of

Urriolagoitia Miner / September 14, 2026

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Multi-Merchant CE 3.0: The End of the Data-Poor Merchant’s Excuse

For two years, Visa’s Compelling Evidence 3.0 (CE 3.0) rewarded merchants who already had a paper trail. If you could

Ben Herut / September 11, 2026

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Your Merchant Has an MCC, But Do You Understand the Business?

Why Healthcare Fraud Prosecutions Don’t Keep Up with the Crime

Graph-Based Fraud Detection: Why Closing Accounts Doesn’t Stop Fraud Networks

Top 5 Unusual Dark Web Money Laundering Methods

The Revolut Breach: One More Thought on Risk

Trust Is a Currency; the Credit Card Networks Set the Exchange Rate

The Prior Authorization Paradox in Healthcare Fraud

Context & Why Capturing Contextual Memory Is Crucial in the AI Era

How to Speak Dark Web: Illicit terms, products and services

Multi-Merchant CE 3.0: The End of the Data-Poor Merchant’s Excuse

FATF Report: Pig Butchering Scams Cost.

2nd Revolut Breach in a Month,.

FTC Fines Payments Processors $17M for.

Scanovate, a Digital Identity Company, Acquired.

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