Panelists from the Secret Service at a Mortgage Bankers Association conference Monday urged mortgage lenders to tweak their approach to reporting of wire fraud, home equity theft, investment scams and elderly-related financial crimes, which are on the rise.

Tata Consultancy Services' clients will have direct access to the fintech company's risk-mitigating ecosystem to keep their data, bank account verifications and transactions safe.

Fraudsters are leveraging advanced artificial intelligence to impersonate customers and deceive financial institutions, but the industry is fighting back with detection systems.

A home insurer that the industry services provider owns has exposure to the Vesttoo platform, an AI-driven cap markets fintech facing claims of falsified collateral.

Incidents have increased by five times on a quarter-to-quarter basis, starting with the shift in deposit relationships after Silicon Valley Bank failed, CertifID said.

Companies that don't use the technology on average pay $1.76 million more and take 108 days longer to respond to incidents than firms that utilize it.

The alleged scam targeted elderly Vietnamese-American homeowners in California and fooled banks into distributing illicit funds to the perpetrators.

The owner of Tri-Emerald Financial Group claimed unregistered securities it was offering would increase in value by more than tenfold before an eventual Nasdaq listing.

More than 50 percent of transactions analyzed were risk-prone, a report published by FundingShield found.

The case brought by the Westchester, New York District Attorney alleged the perpetrators stole three properties from distressed owners and unlawfully obtained $1.5 million of fix-and-flip financing.

A second bill formally making it a felony only passed one house of the state legislature.

Carrington Mortgage Services and its vendor also face three new federal lawsuits, which claim the number of customers impacted in their incidents exceeds 3 million clients.

But the full year rate for 2022 increased as a record high for adverse findings was set in the third quarter, Aces Quality Management said.

The second-highest number of instances were recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last year, but it is likely not every crime gets reported.

Cases increased at an average of 14.5% from 2021 to 2022, a LexisNexis survey found.

The hackers, on their dark web blog, recently threatened to release supposed company and borrower information if the lender did not pay.

Grand View Financial promised vulnerable homeowners debt payoff assistance, but its clients all ended up losing their properties.

The incident affecting the information of 1,361 customers is a rare disclosure of a data breach from a top mortgage lender and servicer.

The servicer didn't disclose how many customers were affected by the incident.

A pair of bills make it clear that stealing a homeowner's title is a crime, subject to a maximum prison term of 25 years.