PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

As local- and state-level government entities continue to run, it’s not business as usual for the public sector — particularly in the way these entities make and receive payments. It’s been a boon for ACH payments, said Jeff Thorness, president of Forte Payment Systems , a CSG company.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

While fraud affects less than 1 percent of all card purchases, consumers who do lose funds from their bank accounts must go through lengthy and often stressful processes to get their money back. Getting security right also means balancing customers’ security and privacy concerns. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 2, 2018

Security and fraud risk remain the top priority for retail banks seeking to update their payments infrastructure, a study released this week by ACI WorldWide and Ovum found.

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Abrigo

MARCH 3, 2023

Ten red flags to help you identify check fraud A financial institution's guide to identifying mail-related check fraud. You might also like this webinar, "Proactive measures to protect against check fraud and fraud loss." Losses from check fraud total $18 billion annually, representing more than a million checks daily.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Widely publicized data breaches and hacks have made today’s consumers especially concerned about fraud. Cautious shoppers may find comfort in debit, with fraud losses associated with the payment method declining over the past several years. Card fraud is an ever-present threat. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

That doesn’t mean these companies have the ability to easily adopt the same payments solutions that businesses in other industries can access. Speaking with PYMNTS, Muller highlighted the opportunity that the cannabis space has to adopt payments and other financial technologies that have leapfrogged over legacy solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming, non-payment/non-delivery, extortion and personal data breaches were among the favored attack patterns last year. As for the areas where scammers managed the biggest hits, business email compromise (BEC), confidence/romance fraud and spoofing were the top three types of crime in terms of monetary losses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Fraud targeting digital banking users has been around as long as digital banking itself, but it has recently become more prevalent. The pandemic is exacerbating the problem, with a study finding that 22 percent of Americans were the targets of pandemic-related fraud attempts as of March. APP fraud is not a new occurrence.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

This increased digital engagement can create challenges, however, as it opens up new avenues for fraud in addition to making transactions more convenient for customers. A Lloyds Bank study found that this type of fraud has increased fivefold over the past year, accounting for up to 1 percent of all loan applications.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Challengers to traditional banking, payment, and loan products have all launched this year, and FIs are fighting fraud, hacks, and scams with an increasing number of biometric security measures. 2017 has been a […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. With innovation comes new challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. This leaves payment data vulnerable while inside the web page before it is transmitted. Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. . Getting the European Union on the path to 3D Secure 2.0

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. It’s great to see the prioritization on innovation with this bill,” Wingert said, calling the AML regulatory changes important. Can you really know your customer if you don’t know their location?”

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype. Banks are increasingly focusing on the fundamentals when determining their innovation agendas. Payment technology is in many ways the flagship among the fleet of innovations that banks are pursuing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Keeping payments infrastructures safeguarded against the growing threat of cybercriminals is a never-ending battle. That’s why payments innovation isn’t just about delivering a solution, but delivering one that can create efficiency and reduce risk in a secure manner. PYMNTS: What does innovation mean to you?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. Yet, each of these strategies to modernization is a double-edged sword, exposing a bank — and, thus, its partners and customers — to a new breed of fraud risks. ” Innovation’s Security Downsides.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. New account fraud.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It’s a concern that’s captured broad attention as popular peer-to-peer payments apps like Zelle and Venmo show security vulnerabilities. For many fraud victims, these transactions are irreversible, adding pressure on institutions to develop more robust solutions. Credit bureaus, […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Mobile banking is under constant attack from fraudsters, however, who are targeting both customers’ funds and personal data, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, payment card data and login credentials. ATMs are common avenues for fraud, however, especially those that are running outdated software. billion by 2024.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

In fact, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. percent of those focused on data analytics said they also focused on fraud management solutions in the previous three years, compared to only 60.6 For example, 91.7 Meanwhile, 80.6 About the Playbook.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But with innovation comes risk — and anything that consumers use will always attract fraudsters looking to steal a cut of the action. . I think fraud will go up as awareness goes up,” he said. But clawbacks don’t exist in the world of instant payments. After all, who doesn’t want to get their money faster? .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Still, researchers have found, many businesses do just that: RedSeal released a report this month that described the state of corporates’ approach to enterprise security as one of “cyber naïveté,” with many executives believing that their existing strategies are sufficient to ward off a cyberattack.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The growing cost of online fraud – and finding ways to detect it – has long been a costly concern of financial institutions (FIs). He said banks and payment processors already have this technology on hand – they’re just not using it correctly. . If you beat the geolocation fraud, you beat all the fraud,” Briggs said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new year has begun, but the pandemic continues to throw financial and operational curveballs at banks, businesses and their consumers regarding how they conduct daily tasks or routine payments. This includes shifts in which consumers are shopping and paying, and in the payment tools or methods they are using to finalize their transactions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Debbie Guerra, executive vice president of merchant payments and payments intelligence solutions at ACI Worldwide , dives into how digital transformation will be key to enabling businesses, individuals and entire economies to recover from the huge challenges presented by the pandemic. Consumers have choice.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For all the buzz about the advent of real-time payments, and the various opportunities it can reportedly unlock, the lingering uneasiness is that speed also brings the potential for more fraud. That fear, according to David Barnhardt, EVP of product at fraud prevention firm GIACT , is not unwarranted or unreasonable.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

RHB in Malaysia is introducing fraud protection cards with mini screens on the back that auto-generate new card verification value (CVV) numbers, according to reports. A study done by Bank Negara Malaysia showed that upwards of 92 percent of total fraud losses were connected to card payment fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Nacha has announced that Phixius, which facilitates the trusted exchange of payment information, has officially gone live, according to a press release. Phixius' technology is said to help boost fraud protection, automate manual processes and deliver better customer experiences.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Fraud prevention is about who you can trust. But for customers, both actual fraud attacks as well as incorrectly blocked legitimate transactions represent a breach of that trust. In the former instance, the customer trusted the institution to protect them from such attacks, and the fraud took place anyway.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Fraud prevention is about who you can trust. But for customers, both actual fraud attacks as well as incorrectly blocked legitimate transactions represent a breach of that trust. In the former instance, the customer trusted the institution to protect them from such attacks, and the fraud took place anyway.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Nacha , the nonprofit that manages the movement of trillions of dollars in electronic payments, announced the debut of voice payments and cybersecurity resources on Thursday (Sept. She noted that verifications can also utilize information tied to payment history.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

European tech firm SIA is forming a technological partnership with German software innovator INFORM to launch a digital service to speed up the authentication process for online payments across Europe. The fraud-fighting infrastructure uses an innovative scoring engine to analyze risks in real time for all payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Although CU members want innovation in member loyalty and rewards, most credit unions are not delivering these programs up to the desired standards. Credit union members’ high expectations when it comes to loyalty innovation do not necessarily make or break their banking relationships. Loyalty Innovation Strategies .

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Noncash payments fraud in the U.S. outpaced growth in noncash payments overall between 2012 and 2015, according to a Federal Reserve Payments Study released this week. The study’s survey of depository institutions found noncash payments fraud increased 37%, from $6.1 billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion, in 2015.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Those new avenues of fraud have leveraged hallmarks of the current pandemic — fears over public health and concerns about stimulus checks issued by the government — to snare unwitting victims. . . According to some estimates, as many as 22 percent of Americans have been impacted by COVID-related fraud. . .

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