PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

That’s a quote from department store maven John Wanamaker, illustrating a conundrum for retailers (and merchants in general): Namely, you’ve got to reach out to consumers if you are going to convince them to buy your wares. It is equally important to measure and iterate as the retailer continues to engage with its target audience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Fraud has no choice but to roll with the punches, and the flurries are enough to daze a boxer as skilled as Ali. Get a toehold in a consumer’s account with a card and whammo, here comes EMV. We’re being tongue in cheek, of course. “Not only that, I can use a large number of cards in a very short period of time.”. “The

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Successful criminals, including those who ply their trade via digital and mobile channels, have certain advantages: flexible morality, of course, is one; another is determination. Welcome to the world of advertising fraud. Even so, Xie said, better cooperation could help prevent more of the particular type of fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When most people hear about online fraud, they tend to think about what Noa Kalechstain, Riskified ’s head of chargeback recovery, calls “classic fraud,” she explained in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. It has attained the status of “classic” because fraud using stolen financials is the most prevalent type.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards. It’s a fact that merchants, of course, do not love.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Commercial cards account for only a portion of corporates’ overall spend, as checks stick around and ACH gains ground. However, their market share is on the rise as card issuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Out of the ever-growing list of things retailers have as priorities, stopping fraud — not selling more goods and services — has now claimed the online retailer’s top spot. That’s the finding of Forrester’s 2016 “State of Retail Payments 2016” report. The Shifting Fraud Focus. Why Outsourcing Matters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A few weeks ago US economists were surprised when the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose by 0.6% What does that mean for fraud professionals? Once I started looking around, I saw that Venmo is accepted at quite a few national retailers. QR Codes and Fraud. Venmo is a PayPal company. What about QR codes?

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Fraud isn’t perpetrated by a random assortment of individuals; it’s organized crime. It’s “fraud as a Service.” It’s a very unfair match, if you ask Skye Spear, VP of eCommerce fraud-fighting firm Signifyd. “I Good news, of course, but that doesn’t mean the pressure is any less. Classic fraud deflection is rules-based.

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NCR

AUGUST 7, 2017

As contactless card transactions become increasingly common in markets such as the UK and on public transit globally, it seems inevitable that there will be growing concerns around the potential for fraudsters to exploit this form of payment. million lost to contactless fraud in 2015. percent of total card fraud in the UK.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Digital Shadows , the industry leader in digital risk management, revealed its findings on the changing habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs, discovering a new trend in the form of remote learning “schools.”. The course includes webinars, detailed notes and course material.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

Merchants are preparing a new battle in the seemingly never-ending debit-card interchange fee wars. The amendment was passed following lobbying by the merchants and, of course, counter lobbying by the card networks and banks. Pre-2011, debit card interchange fees averaged in the 44 cent range.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

While the transition is still in process, and has in many cases been a bumpy, road to adoption, it will go a long way towards tackling some of the most common types of fraud. Where it is prevalent, EMV has proven to be a highly effective method of preventing card-present/counterfeit card fraud. million in 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Online merchants know very well that fraud costs them in many ways – in chargebacks, in false positives, in the friction that’s introduced at checkout that can cost a sale. But there’s nothing like putting the cost of fraud into the parlance that merchants know really well: units sold. Third Cost: Decline Orders .

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FICO

MAY 19, 2020

History tells us that things like natural disasters, times of economic instability, and fears of recession or unemployment provide the perfect environment for increased fraud and financial crime. So, I thought I would outline my top 5 fraud manager considerations during COVID-19. Examples include fake emails from CDC, WHO, and FEMA.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

It’s also a good theme for taking a look at the news of last week, namely MasterCard fueling a robot-inspired automated restaurant future, Wells Fargo mobilizing payments and a communal approach to preventing payments fraud. Sharing data is the first step toward true fraud prevention , he emphasized. MasterCard Automates With Pepper.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A while back, my old chum Ed Conway from Sky TV (better known for his excellent foreword to that noted tome Identity is the New Money , of course) ran a nice story about the British cash paradox. Is card fraud really a barrier to cashlessness? Contactless transactions have now reached £2 billion per month in the UK.)

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Where there’s spending, of course, there are transaction fees and other revenue streams for payments companies. The way we pay is shifting, of course. Earnings results from card companies show that debit remains a payment method of choice, and contactless payments are making inroads at both Visa and Mastercard. percent and 5.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This week, three new cases of accused internal fraud emerged, showcasing the variety of ways employees can steal company cash. Invoice and purchase order manipulation, company credit card abuse and fraudulent use of company checks all surface as cautionary tales for corporates’ internal financial processes.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

All the data breaches at retailers, from Target to K-Mart Sears, have spooked the market and stirred it into action. On September 30, Bank of America became the first major US bank to announce that all new debit cards with be EMV, while existing cards would be replaced at expiry. But I did not enjoy the experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

The merchant, of course, benefits from not having to juggle multiple providers. Upon the purchase, merchants must offer a range of payment options (using the software from ISVs) spanning digital wallets and cards and streamlined forms in which to offer payment details. Fighting Fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Yes, prisons.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s sort of like asking Taylor Swift to give up singing to take a job handling financial fraud instead. The how, of course, is tricky. According to an American Banker article (subscription required), it takes 400 years for a debit card to degrade. Ditto for retail customers. It doesn’t end here, of course.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. In fact, missteps in digital fraud prevention can, as Stuppy said, “put the entire digital investment at risk.” Heck, yeah!”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s not hard to find experts who predict that, even with the new date, gas stations will fail to comply with the deadline, which is set by card networks. Before getting into that, though, it pays to understand what’s going on with the EMV deadline in this specific area of retail to get a good sense of context. LISNR Offering.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Prime members with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature credit card will be rewarded with 5 percent cash back at Whole Foods, and the Prime program will also soon be the rewards program for all of Whole Foods. Consumer choice at the pharma counter: We all grumble at how much things cost at the pharmacy – like prescription drugs, of course.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Others are made on the basis of the desired outcome, the odds of personal downside risk and the friction associated with an alternative course of action. What’s Relevant in Retail. Hackers got off with some 41 million customer accounts, including payment card details. Fewer still cancelled their credit and debit cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The transactions between businesses are done on an account-to-account basis, as opposed to using the existing correspondent banking network — which, of course, relies on intermediaries. The tokenization helps sidestep the vulnerabilities to fraud that exist when sending checks, ACH and wire transfers. Separately, and beyond the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Issuers sent cards to consumers and providers sent point-of-sale (POS) devices and terminals to merchants. Data, of course, plays a role in building customer engagement models that pay dividends, and machine learning and natural language processing will prove to be essential components of a strategy that creates context for consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. In fact, missteps in digital fraud prevention can, as Stuppy said, “put the entire digital investment at risk.” Heck, yeah!”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

In what is being considered the country’s biggest class-action lawsuit to date, the watchdog claims DNB charged customers roughly six times more to manage their funds over the course of 2010–2014, the Financial Supervisory Authority and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration stated. District Court in Atlanta.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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. Fraud prevention tools. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Broadly enabling online commerce. rate per transaction.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had roughly 340 execs register to listen live to the two of us banter about the people, processes and tech necessary to do more than simply rebrand what’s typically described as the fraud and risk departments of digital platforms. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

The problem can be especially acute when it comes to financial institutions (FIs), said John Owens, general manager of Elan Credit Card , in a new podcast interview with PYMNTS. But that’s not the whole story, of course. But that doesn’t mean all the players in payments and financial services have a solid or clear digital strategy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

This means, of course, that using cryptos in commerce is, thus far, a limited proposition. They can benefit from the fraud proof nature of cryptocurrencies while reducing transaction costs and sidestepping credit card and debit card infrastructure,” Filter said. And we think that the sky’s the limit.”.

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