A typical fraud case lasts 14 months before detection and causes a loss of over $8,000/month, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) 2020 Report to the Nations. When considering today’s financial landscape, where transactions happen under one second, and the current age of economic turmoil that COVID-19 has caused on a global scale, these challenges and risks become all the more threatening, underlined Deloitte Romania and SAS experts in a series of webinars on fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML) and use of analytics for these fields. However, there are reasons to be optimistic, as 55% of organizations expect to invest more in anti-fraud technology over the next two years, according to ACFE’s 2020 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report, and new approaches to fraud prevention emerge, combining rules-based systems with machine learning and AI-based fraud detection systems that enable the identification of thousands of fraud patterns.
Romanian producers from Timiș and Tulcea claimed three gold medals at the 2025 edition of the Concours International de Lyon, one of Europe’s leading cheese and dairy competitions. Held in Lyon, the event brought together products from 15 countries and awarded a total of 680 medals, including 459 gold and 221 silver. From Romania, Asociația […]
Romania’s national team learned its potential group-stage opponents for the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday, December 5, during the official draw held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The winner of the UEFA play-off path that includes Romania will join Group D, alongside the United States, Paraguay, […]
Romanian president Nicuşor Dan is paying an official visit to France on Monday and Tuesday, with a schedule that includes meetings with French leader Emmanuel Macron, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, and members of the Romanian community,
The December 7 elections in Bucharest marked the lowest turnout in the last decade, but were also a major win for the National Liberal Party (PNL) since its candidate, Ciprian Ciucu, won a majority of votes in 5 of the 6 districts of the capital. In District 1, Ciprian Ciucu obtained 40.29% of the votes. […]
Romania’s profit share, defined as the proportion of value added distributed by non-financial corporations to capital rather than labour, fell for the second consecutive year to 48.1% in 2024, Eurostat reported on December 7. The ratio was 40.0% on average in the European Union, with below-average ratios in more developed countries such as France (32.2%) […]
The pension law "brutally violates the independence of the judiciary" and "de facto eliminates the service pension for magistrates," according to the reasoning published by the High Court (ICCJ) along with its decision to refer the magistrates' pensions law to the Constitutional Court, Ziarul Financiar reported. ...
