PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This overwhelming reliance on smartphones has generated record profits for major telecommunications companies, including AT&T , Sprint and Verizon , with the industry generating $610 billion in revenue in 2019. Telecommunications companies face a number of challenges in their day-to-day operations, however.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

One recent study estimated that roughly 44 million Americans would tap food delivery apps by the end of this year, up from 38 million in 2019, and another survey predicted that the number of smartphone delivery app users will climb 25.2 It also analyzes how focusing on the customer experience can help prevent such fraud in the first place.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

People in general are more aware of — and concerned about — fraud as we pass through a second season of COVID, and eCommerce continues to rack up impressive stats, good and bad. New threats are evolving all the time,” KP Brendel, director of marketplace operations at online thrift and consignment storefront Swap.com, told PYMNTS. “New

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

An internal investigation into alleged fraud at Luckin Coffee Inc. In addition, the company has placed six other employees on suspension or leave due to involvement in or knowledge of the fraud. Cao has served as senior vice president in charge of store operations and customer service since 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Thwarting fraud in one area is not enough to prevent it from cropping up elsewhere, and businesses are essentially playing whack-a-mole as fraudsters’ attacks move across channels. Digital fraud rose 30 percent in Q3 2019, with one out of every five new accounts revealed to be illegitimate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. Rogers added that the data “strongly suggests” that WhatsApp hadn’t been taking security of the app very seriously.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Ransomware cyber-attacks are up 41 percent over last year, with 205,280 enterprises having lost access to hacked files, according to data from the ransomware security firm Emsisoft. Companies paid an average of $84,116 in the last quarter of 2019 to get their files back from online thieves, according to data from security firm Coveware.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

That famous literary opener could apply to the mobile order-ahead (MOA) space in 2019. Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick has even secured $400 million to develop his new CloudKitchens concept, which rents fully equipped cooking spaces to delivery-only restaurants in major metros. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

foreign policy and national security goals to secure the global financial system and protect the United States from the threats of terrorism, human and drug trafficking, and economic damages. Join other BSA/AML and fraud professionals at the leading industry conference April 19-22! register today.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Businesses are doing their part by having employees work from home, but some companies are struggling to keep operations secure as opportunistic fraudsters aim to take advantage of the pandemic’s disruption. Bad actors are increasingly trying to exploit confusions as companies transition to remote operations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Gareth David Long, a 41-year-old Las Vegas resident, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for fraud for stealing money from victims’ accounts, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Long pled guilty in November of 2019 to a scheme where he committed wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. Financial Companies’ Security And Regulatory Obligations . resources.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Days after admitting to a hack that caused the loss of $32 million in cryptocurrency, Bitpoint Japan, a cryptocurrency exchange operator run by Remixpoint , said on Sunday (July 14) it has discovered an additional $2.3 This marks the eighth major cyberattack on a cryptocurrency in 2019 and is one of the largest. million was stolen.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Advances in fraud decisioning have cybercrooks scrambling into the new arcana of synthetic identities and fiendish mass bot attacks, looking for any possible opening to exploit. Some industries are more prone than others, as we discovered in the latest Fraud Decisioning Playbook , a PYMNTS and Simility collaboration.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. Rogers added that the data “strongly suggests” that WhatsApp hadn’t been taking security of the app very seriously.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One 2019 report noted that there were 220 updates to such requirements worldwide each day, equating to roughly 80,000 in one year. These considerations are especially important during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as the wave of legitimate customers now doing their banking online has prompted a corresponding spike in fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Fines related to noncompliance increased 160 percent between September 2018 and December 2019, in fact. FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. Taking A Local Approach To Fighting Money Laundering, Fraud Worldwide. Download the Tracker to read the Feature Story.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Fraud attacks’ frequency and complexity will likely continue to rise despite merchants’ best efforts to prevent them. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments. Malware targeting computers running the Windows 7 operating system were especially hard-hit, rising 125 percent, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Customers have varying banking needs, but the global fraud phenomenon tends to have equal impacts. Challengers see fraud protection as especially important, particularly as they attempt to ween customers away from legacy FIs and their own nimbler FinTech competitors. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Stepping into this world is vital for anyone serious about preparing a proper defense against online fraudsters in 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. More specifically, it can identify patterns that signal fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) plan to spend 15 percent more protecting their computer networks in 2020 than they spent in 2019, according to a report based on the results of a survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Take the issue of retail security as one example. As the new PYMNTS Merchant Fraud Decisioning Playbook shows, fraudsters are starting off the new decade armed with the stolen data and credentials of millions of global consumers, and they are already putting that data to use. Retail Trust and AI.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Microsoft issued an emergency security update for Internet Explorer after hackers were able to exploit a new flaw in several versions of the browser. Unfortunately, the security issue come right before what is expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year: the Saturday before Christmas.

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Perficient

AUGUST 16, 2023

Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. In 2019, it expanded by buying its fourth branch from a competitor. Mr. Herndon named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) as receiver, allowing the FDIC to take control of the Heartland Tri-State’s operations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Morgan Chase found that 81 percent of business owners reported experiencing payments fraud in 2019. Only when the transformation is complete will the spending on it stop increasing, as it will become a more steady operational expense.”. And in another recent study, J.P.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

MGM Resorts International, a hotel and casino operator, admitted it had experienced a data breach following a report saying information on 10.6 The resort said it had upgraded its security to make sure a data breach like this one never happens again. million guests was compromised, according to a report by Reuters. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

FIs were fined more than $17 billion in penalties between 2009 and 2019 for improper AML procedures, for example, including major players like Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

This increasingly sophisticated group poses a growing and costly headache to those who value the model, forcing businesses to spend billions on fraud-fighting technologies. Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. million fraud reports in 2018, resulting in $1.48 trillion a year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PULSE , the debit/ATM network that operates as a Discover Financial Services company, said in a press release that it has adopted the FICO Falcon Platform to bring new fraud detection services to its network of more than 4,100 debit issuers. Among the features is real-time scoring. percent in 2017 to 6.7 billion transactions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

million in 2019 — a 1.5 Growing attack-related expenses force businesses to remain vigilant against emerging threats, including phishing and other types of fraud that their own employees may willingly or unwillingly perpetuate. Ensuring Secure Workplace Practices. Other fraud attempts targeting workplaces are no less dangerous.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

According to recent information from Juniper Research , online payment fraud losses from e-commerce, airline ticketing, and money transfer and banking services are expected to reach $48 billion by 2023, more than double the $22 billion in losses estimated for 2018. Synthetic identities and new account fraud.

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FICO

MAY 18, 2023

The innovative pay-as-you-go solution allows Dock’s clients, including banks, fintechs, and retailers, to intercept fraudulent transactions and protect their operations, while also improving the user experience. The fraud prevention solution is based on FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager and FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Adhering to Payments Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) is an unavoidable requirement for any and all eTailers that accept card payments, but a surprising number of firms are not up to speed on these standards. The need for digital security has never been more paramount than during the COVID-19 crisis.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Comparing it favorably to the first half of 2019, Feedzai says it closed deals in the U.S., And the company has continued implementing new machine-learning tech and filing new patents in areas such as deep learning, model fairness operations, active learning, transaction graph representations and more, the release says.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Enterprise Fraud Solution Buyers Want More Agility, More Data. Our recent global survey reveals the investment priorities and functionality requirements for enterprise-level fraud solution buyers. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. Investing in Fraud Prevention and Detection. FICO Admin. by Andrew Manuel. expand_less Back To Top.

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