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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

In one major example in 2018, Frank Krasovec, the chairman of Dash Brands, owner of Domino’s Pizza franchises in China, lost $450,000 when a fraudster intercepted his email. Krasovec is now suing the Dallas, Texas bank, maintaining that PlainsCapital didn’t have anti-fraud protocols in place. billion in 2018. Close to $1.8

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What’s clear is that fraud decisioning solutions have never been more necessary, as cybercrime enters a new phase of sophistication, diabolical creativity and global scale. Bottom line: Fraud losses are expected to hit $48 billion annually by 2023 – more than double the 2018 losses. Sealing It.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Aided by technology – and emboldened by the rise of cryptocurrencies – fraudsters are stepping up ransomware campaigns. 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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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Buguroo, a Spanish cybersecurity company, uses biometrics tied to behavior and deep learning processes to root out fraud. Conexo Ventures and Inveready Technology Investment Group also participated. Their technology is designed to recognize illicit activity that comes from either human cybercriminals or bots.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption. The solution to this complexity is cutting-edge technology that can keep pace with modern transformation: machine learning.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Venmo users alone lost more than $40 million in 2018. Meeting this fraud threat will require in-depth knowledge of fraudsters’ techniques and advanced technology and customer vigilance, according to Jamie Armistead , vice president and business line leader for banking app Zelle. “We The Scams And Frauds Facing P2p Payment Apps.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

A new study has revealed that retailers will lose around $130 billion in digital CNP (Card-not-Present) fraud between 2018 and 2023. A layered FDP (Fraud Detection & Prevention) solution naturally helps directly preventing fraud, but it also offers major gains in terms of recovering potentially lost revenue through false positives.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Retailers focused on combating fraud have credit cards in the cross-hairs of their efforts. But ramping up the war on card fraud can introduce a new risk to companies: false positives. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. The False Positive Threat.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Countering digital fraud is a lot like playing whack-a-mole: As soon as one fraudster is taken out, two more pop up where they’re least expected. The popularity of digital banking services has created ample opportunities for bad actors, leaving banks scrambling to protect themselves against the rising tide of fraud.

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JUNE 13, 2019

If it seems like cases of fraud and hacking are always in the news, that’s because new incidents pop up practically every day. According to the new Digital Fraud Tracker , total losses due to fraud equaled $4.2 trillion in 2018, and fraudulent mobile app transactions increased 680 percent between 2015 and 2018.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Call centers are facing the potential of fraud from inside and outside their facilities, and they are taking multi-pronged approaches to tackle these security challenges. And companies are creating fraud prevention defenses for the mobile order-ahead space, as quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are moving forward with digital innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Perhaps more troubling, however, is digital fraud’s projected future. Recently published research noted global fraud losses could top $6 billion by 2021, more than doubling the $3 billion lost worldwide in 2015. As such, businesses are now investing in their security and fraud prevention technology and solutions.

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JULY 21, 2020

Compromised credit card fraud increased 212 percent year over year in 2019, while customer credential leaks increased 129 percent during the same period. Credit card fraud is just one of many techniques that fraudsters leverage to scam FIs and their customers, but it is on the rise amid the pandemic. billion pounds ($5.2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Compliance failures are prevalent worldwide: Approximately $26 billion worth of fines were levied against banks for AML, KYC and sanctions noncompliance between 2008 and 2018. A team of analysts can only handle so many potential fraud cases at a time, after all. . A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52 million. .

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

TSB is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink to roll out a solution to help prevent fraud and payment mix-ups, Vocalink announced in a press release on Thursday (Sept. There were 84,624 incidents of Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud in the U.K. in 2018 totaling £354.3 Such fraud reportedly impacted one in four U.K.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

The 2018 holiday season has barely ended and it’s a good bet that retailers and payments players have yet to identify all the fraud that took place. The rest of the year will bring other such attacks, and no doubt new attacks barely imagined even by veteran fraud-prevention experts. Criminal Rings. Criminal Patience.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

The verification and authentication processes of many sharing economy platforms are poorly equipped to combat the growing risk of fraud. In technology news, smartwatches and wearables are among the hottest areas of digital commerce and payments. 45 million: Number of global smartwatch shipments in the year 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Fraudsters have unfortunately also carefully followed this payment trend, with skimming, prepaid card and ATM fraud all seeing upticks recently — especially in regard to debit transactions. Another study indicated that debit-related fraud is on the rise across the U.S. Around The Next-Gen Debit World. The report noted that U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

First Data’s 2018 Consumer Cybersecurity Study is based on data from 1,767 U.S. Advances in technology are opening new opportunities for fraudsters to obtain PII, and businesses must proactively respond by implementing technology solutions that keep consumer data safe and secure.”.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

18) that it achieved 342 percent sales growth in 2018 compared with 2017 and that it has a four-year growth rate of 3,857 percent. In a press release, Onfido said 2018 was a landmark year for the company which not only enjoyed strong growth but named key members to its senior team and won accolades from within the industry.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The fact that fraud is on the rise is not new, nor is it surprising that banks are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to fight back. In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS looks at how banks are currently approaching their use of AI and machine learning in fraud protection and technology innovation.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Not only do industry giants have innate name recognition, but they also have colossal advertising budgets and access to cutting-edge mobile ordering technology and features that small operations cannot match. Bad actors are taking advantage of the chaos and bringing about an upswing in digital fraud. Fighting Fraud.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They are buying fraud tutorials and data from other criminals online. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. Fraud Headstart. Fraud Focus.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The findings came from a survey of 2,000 individuals between 2013 to 2018. AppZen said there is no finding that certain verticals are more or less prone to expense fraud. billion has been stolen via BEC from October 2013 to May 2018. The FBI noted that as much as $12.5

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MARCH 13, 2018

Regulatory pressure, in terms of policy changes and increased scrutiny, is forcing banks to seek technological changes and advancements to meet evolving regulatory and compliance requirements. IBM is committed to bring the newest and best advances in technology to tackle these challenges. New Approaches to Anti-Money Laundering.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

This new reality isn’t without its challenges for financial services providers, however, with security and fraud mitigation among the largest concerns. By definition, real-time payments give financial institutions (FIs) almost no time to analyze and authenticate a transaction to prevent fraud and other financial crimes.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

This is just one example of how the explosion of data can increase a company’s fraud vulnerabilities, but can also provide a solution if captured and utilized. Current and Future State of Fraud. consumer records containing PII increased by 126 percent between 2017 and 2018. Too Much Data .

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. Memory Technology. mainstreaming of chip implants.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to fighting fraud, it’s not really what you know – not exactly, at least. It’s what you don’t know, and how you go about finding those gaps and putting up defenses via better data and new technology. Fraud is big business, with online losses topping some $14.7 New vs. Old Fraud. Big Business.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Socure, the provider of identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced Thursday (Feb. market sectors that are in need of accurate, automated identity verification technology, including healthcare and the public sector,” Socure CEO Tom Thimot said in the press release. “We 28) it raised $30 million in Series C funding.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Credit union (CU) associations and service providers are pushing for the adoption of technology to help with security and compliance. as of December 2018. 20 percent: Share of CUs that prioritized growing mortgage loans in 2019, down from 52 percent in 2018. percent: Increase in loans from Wisconsin credit unions during 2018. $5

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JULY 21, 2017

If a data breach is a sprint — where a fraudster grabs as much data as he or she can, as quickly as possible, in an effort to maximize ill-gotten gains — the fight against fraud is a marathon. Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Europe may offer a tell on the fraud to come. A marathon that never ends.

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

Themes emerged, some frightening – as when it comes to getting a sense of the impact of payments fraud – and some hopeful, as evidenced in, say, businesses finally moving toward killing the check. And, as of now and looking ahead, among the more prevalent criminal methods focused on business, according to Divitt: new relationship fraud.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Fraud, on the other hand, paid extremely well, a fact he learned at the age of 13 when he embarked on his first subscription scam. The part where he comes back to work as director of strategic development at We Fight Fraud , a security firm dedicated to helping businesses fend off fraudsters? Less expected. Hacking the Humans.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Retailers raked in more than $850 billion during the 2018 holiday season, marking the fastest holiday retail sales growth seen in the past six years. PYMNTS recently spoke with Siddiqui as well as Kyle Ciborowski — director of security architecture — on the ways in which the retailer is fighting fraud.

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MAY 25, 2016

Radial , an omnichannel and fraud solutions provider, is promising to take away merchant woes with a suite of solutions, which it says improves order conversion rates and helps eliminate fraud. With the introduction of EMV chip technology in Oct. 2015, online fraud is forecast to explode from an estimated $3.1

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