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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826038403321

Autore

Zerzan Andrew <1981->

Titolo

New technologies, new risks? : : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism / / Andrew Zerzan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2010

ISBN

1-282-42222-7

9786612422225

0-8213-8177-6

Descrizione fisica

x, 36 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm

Collana

World Bank working paper, , 1726-5878 ; ; no. 174

Disciplina

363.325/16

Soggetti

Terrorism - Prevention

Terrorism - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Author's Biography; 1. Introduction; 2. Value Card Systems; Figure 2.1. Centrally Recorded and Unit-Recorded Value Card Setup; 3. Mobile Phone Financial Services; Figure 3.1. Surge in Mobile Connections across All Regions; Box 3.1. Risk-based Determination of Transaction Limits; Figure 3.2. Billions of m-FS users in 2007 (actual) and 2015 (estimated); 4. Online Banking and Payment Services; Figure 4.1. Internet Boom across Regions 1990-2005 (users per thousand people)

Figure 4.2. Percent of Chinese and American Internet Users Accessing Online Payment and Banking ServicesBox 4.1. Indicators of Internet Payment System Crime; Figure 4.3. Transaction Limits for Moneybookers.com for UK residents; Figure 4.4. Online Revenue Lost to Fraud, Proportion of Total Revenue 2000-07; 5. Digital Currency; Figure 5.1. Typical Digital Currency Exchange Setup; 6. Conclusions; Table 5.1. Payment Methods and Risks of Abuse; References

Sommario/riassunto

The rise of information and communication technologies in the past decades has facilitated major economic development. It has expanded access to financial resources to empower the poor. It has even given tools to government to detect and monitor criminal activity. Computers



systems have been developed that can automatically flag and react to suspicious transactions, allowing law enforcement to better protect the market from abuses from petty fraud to terrorist activity. In sum, these new technologies offer great opportunities to improve and protect the lives of people everywhere. Paradoxically