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Fed Study: Noncash Payments Fraud Outpacing Growth Overall

Bank Innovation

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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 Ransomware Gains Traction, UK BEC Fraud Spikes

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Gary Robinson, who serves as head of DCPCU, said that online conduits are gaining favor from fraudsters to further their schemes. “We We are seeing gangs involved in drug trafficking and firearms offenses turning to fraud, targeting victims across the U.K. Fraud that was in turn prevented by the unit amounted to as much as $8.2

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Why US Credit Card Fraud Complaints Are On The Rise

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Credit card fraud complaints in the U.S. ValuePenguin analyzed data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and found that there were approximately 70,000 credit card fraud complaints submitted in 2015. At the state level, the number of credit card fraud complaints were much more pronounced.

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Survey: When Do Fraud Controls Ruin the Customer Experience?

FICO

The last few years have thrown up many challenges for banks and card providers as everything has shifted online, one of the primary challenges being fraud scams. But the online shift has also created opportunities for financial institutions to demonstrate their strong fraud controls in the digital space.

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Europol busts cybercrime group behind credit card fraud

The Paypers

(The Paypers) German and Lithuanian authorities have arrested fifteen members of a cybercrime group that carried out more than 35,000 incidents of online fraud since 2012.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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Tapping Into Expanding Opportunity

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Half of all online shoppers have bailed on a shopping experience just because they couldn’t pay how they wanted to. 250 percent : The amount card-not-present fraud has grown since 2012. 50 percent : The share of online shoppers who have abandoned a purchase because they couldn’t use their preferred payment method.

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