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FCA Penalizes Payment Platform Used by Fraudsters

By Koos Couvée

The Financial Conduct Authority has imposed severe restrictions on Dzing Finance, an electronic money institution, or EMI, based in London, days before another U.K. regulator identified the company as a major facilitator of authorized push-payment fraud schemes. On Friday, the FCA barred Dzing Finance, which describes itself on its website as a "fast-growing neobank and banking-as-a-service platform," from accepting new deposits from current retail customers and onboarding new customers without the agency's prior written consent. "We are currently undertaking a review of firms' anti-fraud measures and we will publish the findings shortly," a spokesperson for the FCA told ACAMS moneylaundering.com...

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