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• BioCatch also warns of more attacks employing artificial intelligence (AI) to target victims in their native languages.
• "While we're at the dawn of the age of AI-powered fraud," BioCatch Director of Global Fraud Intelligence Tom Peacock said, "this is not a scourge of tomorrow or some distant future.
• Account-takeover (ATO), meanwhile, started to rise in the UK again in 2023, with its slice of the total fraud pie increasing by 13%.
• Click here to access BioCatch's full 2024 Digital Banking Fraud Trends in EMEA report and learn how to safeguard your financial institution against an ever-expanding array of fraud threats.

• In the journey of its 35-year legacy, WFF stands alongside our partners as a beacon of empowerment and progress for women.
• Expanded leadership development events across the country to meet the needs of all women where they are in their career journey.
• WFF is committed to expanding its reach to more women with offerings that help them learn, be inspired, connect and grow.
• Expanding digital offerings and content to support women with learning, inspiration and connection 24/7 throughout the year and across all career stages.

• DALLAS, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Women's Foodservice Forum (WFF), the premier non-profit organization for professional development for women building careers in the foodservice industry and a partner to companies accelerating women's advancement, will hold its 2024 Leadership Conference March 25-27 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel Dallas.
• This year marks the 35th anniversary of WFF's founding and celebrates the organization's impact in Changing the Face of Leadership® in the foodservice industry.
• "The WFF Leadership Conference is a wonderful opportunity for women, as well as men, in the foodservice industry to learn and grow professionally and personally," said Sarah King, WFF Board Chair and Chief People & Diversity Officer, Darden Restaurants.
• The WFF Leadership Conference is the place where emerging female leaders to executives come together to connect, grow, and get inspired.

• For those without children, its proposed payment of the full Independent Earner Tax Credit for incomes between NZ$24,000 and $66,000 would kick in from April 1 next year.
• This would help some 380,000 people in low and modestly paid work with an extra $10 a week.
• At the same time, the work effort of low-income parents can be better rewarded.

How the poverty trap works

• When a family’s joint gross income exceeds the (very low) fixed $42,700 threshold, every extra dollar earned denies them 27 cents of WFF assistance.
• To help explain this, it’s useful to imagine a typical family in those circumstances.
• Let’s say this family has two children at school, with one parent in full-time employment and the other half-time, both on the minimum wage.
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Letting people work and earn more

• Delaying the change only decreases the incentive to work, with flow-on effects for productivity.
• This would also address child poverty, as about half of the country’s poor children are in families in low-paid work.
• Many slip further into debt every week, waste precious time arguing for means-tested top-ups from Work and Income, or need food parcels from stretched and underfunded foodbanks.

A simple solution

• This would best be achieved by an immediate increase to the Family Tax Credit, over and above the required inflation adjustment.
• Here is a counter-intuitive but serious suggestion: reduce the In Work Tax Credit by $25 a week and increase the Family Tax Credit by the same amount.
• But this basic suggestion could still be a win-win for National’s key objectives at roughly the same eventual annual cost.

Susan St John is affiliated with the Child Poverty Action Group.