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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes

The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.

One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes

How consumer protection in payments works, why it was designed that way, and why it’s being contested today.

The gift card accountability sink

The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.

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