An Italian judge Wednesday ordered JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, UBS and a banking unit of the German company Hypo Real Estate Holding to stand trial for fraud in their handling of interest rate swaps acquired by the city of Milan in 2005. The prosecutor, Alfredo Robledo, said that the ...Read more >>>

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In the market for mortgage finance, more and more lenders are pushing fraud detection to front of the mortgage food chain. Several lenders and software companies are joining forces to try to get a better jump on potential borrower deceit by implementing pre-origination mortgage fraud ...Read more >>>

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What can – and should – a banking institution do to help protect its business customers? Mike Urban, senior director of Fraud Solutions at FICO, has studied this question and offers his observations on how institutions and customers can fight back against the risks of online ...Read more >>>

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Americans haven’t seen an economy as miserable as the one that’s going on now. Jobs are unavailable, housing loans are sky high even if the price of houses itself is cheap; poor credit isn’t helping either, in getting loans. There are a few ways to improve credit. One of ...Read more >>>

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Some Distinctive Ways in which To Stop Foreclosure Fast that will allow you to help your Home“Foreclosure” the word itself sounds too scary! Preventing foreclosure is maybe the foremost tedious job that a home-owner finds. Are you into the same situation? Has the thought or the real ...Read more >>>

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College students had reason to celebrate last week after President Obama signed into law long-awaited reforms affecting federally guaranteed student loans, despite intense lobbying by banks and lenders to scuttle it. No longer will the government pay fees to financial institutions acting as ...Read more >>>

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Banks and merchants have lost an estimated $10 billion per year on fraudulent credit and debit card transactions made by thieves. Card skimming is one of the processes that have contributed to this gargantuan statistic. Among the many ways that a criminal can obtain your card information, the ...Read more >>>

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