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FundingShield’s CEO, Ike Suri Provides Insights on Protecting Clients and Organizations from Wire Fraud

Protect Your Clients and Yourself From Wire Fraud Foil scammers before they steal someone’s closing funds By Ike Suri, FundingShield CEO Published in Scotsman Guide September 2021 Edition Homepage ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Wire Fraud is a growing problem for mortgage lenders of all sizes and their clients. This kind of fraud targets down payments and loan funds being sent into escrow. The scammer, who could be internal or external, uses a version of a phishing ploy ÔÇö often using email purporting to be from a legitimate company ÔÇö to infiltrate networks and watch transactions progress. At the right time, they send fraudulent
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“Fraud Trends in The COVID Environment” with Adam J. Chaudhary

  “Fraud Trends in The COVID Environment” with Adam J. Chaudhary MQAC Webinar is going to be insightful discussing the rising issues of elder abuse and wire fraud. Join Us https://cmba.com/event/june-mqac-webinar/  
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Ike Suri, FundingShield Chairman & CEO, Named Tech Trendsetter 2019 by HousingWire Magazine.

Write Up From HousingWire: 2019 HW Tech Trendsetter: Ike Suri An investor and enterprise builder, Ike Suri can form a vision, design a plan and implement, execute and deliver successful solutions for clients and consumers in technology and tech related industries. CONTACT INFO@FUNDINGSHIELD.COM FOR ANY MEDIA INQUIRIES
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FundingShield Receives MISMO® Software Certification for Wire Fraud Prevention Technology

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (October 9, 2019) – FundingShield, an industry leading innovator within the mortgage fintech industry, is pleased to announce that its wire fraud prevention software products, Guardian Service and Wire Account Verification Service, have received Premiere Level Certification from MISMO┬«, the mortgage industry’s standards organization. Premiere Level Certification is the highest certification given by MISMO.   “We are delighted to have FundingShield successfully certified MISMO compliant,” said Ike Suri, Chairman and CEO, FundingShield, LLC. “This is an important step towards a better customer experience through safeguarding data, preventing wire fraud, managing risk, and ensuring loan level transaction compliance.”
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Categories: Press and Press Releases.

FundingShield announces a strategic partnership with Tavant to integrate into Tavant VELOX’s FinConnect enterprise bus

Solution to seamlessly provide lender and consumer wire fraud prevention tools NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (August 19, 2019) – FundingShield, an industry leading innovator within the mortgage fintech industry, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Tavant. FundingShield will be integrating its solutions into Tavant VELOX’s FinConnect hub. Tavant is a Silicon Valley-based provider of AI-powered digital lending technologies. Tavant VELOX’s FinConnect is an enterprise service bus for the financial services industry, and an intelligent lending data and services network that integrates with more than 120 ecosystem partners. FundingShield is an award-winning FinTech firm providing cloud-based, plug n’ play tools
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Categories: Press and Press Releases.

FundingShield partners with FormFree┬« to Deliver Enhanced Wire Fraud Protection to FormFree’s Network of More than 1,000 Mortgage Lenders

Strategic alliance will put wire fraud protection directly in the hands of mortgage lenders and loan applicants Newport Beach, CA – July 11, 2019 – FormFree┬« today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with FundingShield, a fintech firm that safeguards homebuyers, mortgage lenders and title insurance underwriters from wire fraud.FundingShield’s loan-level verification services assure closing funds transferred at the end of a mortgage loan transaction go to verified bank accounts belonging to authorized recipients. FormFree will integrate FundingShield’s Wire Account Verification Service (WAVS) into its Passport┬« all-in-one verification solution as a value-added service available to more than
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FundingShield partners with FormFree┬« to Deliver Enhanced Wire Fraud Protection to FormFree’s Network of More than 1,000 Mortgage Lenders Strategic alliance will put wire fraud protection directly in the hands of mortgage lenders and loan applicants


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Housing Finance Leader Faith Schwartz Joins Board of Wire Fraud Fintech FundingShield

FundingShield, LLC – Newport Beach, Calif. – Jan. 8, 2019 FundingShield is pleased to announce that Faith Schwartz has joined its senior advisory board. She brings a wealth of experience and relationships stemming from her leadership in the lending, fintech, non-profit and advisory space, and she is currently president of automated verification provider FormFree. Schwartz received the HousingWire HW Vanguard AwardÔäó for her career contributions to the housing finance industry in 2018 and was recognized as one of mortgage banking’s most powerful women by National Mortgage Professional magazine the same year. Other awards include HousingWire’s HW Women of InfluenceÔäó award
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Categories: Press and Press Releases.

Fundingshield reports ~$75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure

Fundingshield reports an estimated $75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure. This would equate to exposure of ~$20 Billion in 2018.   This report leverages Fundingshield’s industry-leading proprietary software, analytics and transaction database of wire account information and transaction closing history. Furthermore, this projection is specific to lender wire and closing fraud attempts, and does not capture the much higher volume of wire fraud attempts against consumers in housing transactions. Wire and closing fraud victims overwhelmingly underreport losses because of reputational risk concerns.   As Fundingshield has shared previously, Cyber criminals use crawlers, also known as software
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Categories: News Letters and Press.

Fundingshield CEO quoted in National Mortgage News “The best defense is offense”

Original Article from National Mortgage News: https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/housing-market-players-beef-up-defenses-to-thwart-new-wire-fraud-threat ————————————— ————————————— ————————————— Editor’s Note: This is part three in a three-part series from the August edition of National Mortgage News magazine about the growing prevalence of business email compromise fraud. Read part one and part two here. It takes a multipronged approach, through systems and education, by mortgage lenders to stop business email compromise attacks. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at wire fraud against Gateway Mortgage Group, the Tulsa, Okla.-based lender spent much of its 2017 information technology budget putting up defenses to thwart these types of scams. It built a
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