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How Card-On-File Is Changing Online Consumer Shopping

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When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information for each purchase. percent of consumers today have account information stored online with at least one or more companies or service providers.

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Machine Learning Supercharges Banks’ Efforts To Fight Debit Fraud

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Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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New Data: Twice As Many Online Shoppers Believe Credit Cards Are More Secure Than Debit Cards

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It is well known that shoppers tend to behave differently online than they do in brick-and-mortar stores — and this extends to how they choose to pay at checkout. One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards.

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eCommerce Fraud Presents A $12 Billion Problem

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With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. Conservative estimates put online sales at $630 billion this year. According to online security company Signal Sciences , eCommerce retailers deal with an average of 206,000 web attacks per month.

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Swap.com Uses Data Analytics To Fight Post-Holiday Fraud Surge

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Experts predicted that up to $190 billion would be spent online this year, a 35.8 The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Phishing scams were on the rise all year, while a survey of online shoppers found that 40.3

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Report: How Furniture Retailers Use Automation To Take Fraud Off The Table

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Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. These wallets are connected to familiar debit or credit cards, the details of which must also be kept safe from enterprising fraudsters.

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Shutting The Front Door On Online Fraudsters

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But it also has to be easy, fast and friction-free — now more than ever as a mass of consumers are moving their shopping, dining, working and leisure time online in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The battlegrounds for preventing fraud, he noted, are shifting — which means firms need to be able to shift with and ahead of the fraudsters.

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