PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They are buying fraud tutorials and data from other criminals online. They are eyeing juicy targets such as gift cards and loyalty programs, both of which are of increasing importance to merchants’ holiday revenues. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. Fraud Headstart.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The rate of contact center fraud has skyrocketed recently, growing by 350 percent during the past four years. That means thwarting fraudsters who call in, masquerading as legitimate customers, or who hack into a cell center, as well as blocking any dishonest agents within the center from stealing customer information.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In retailing, as a Nobel laureate once wrote (and sort of sang!), “the times they are a-changin” — a sentiment that extends handily to gift cards. No longer confined to being silly (or maybe saccharine) cards tucked into envelopes, gifting can be a quick and painless digital pursuit. Unless retailers make it hard.

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FICO

JULY 6, 2023

Beyond the pleasure of leading a FICO Falcon Fraud Manager User Forum and moderating a couple of panel breakout sessions, I I was also able to catch up with many of the fraud-focused attendees from around the world. Scams: A Top Fraud Concern Scams are becoming a leading fraud concern, all around the world.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This mitigates the risk of customer service representatives providing incorrect information and ensures compliance with regulatory disclosures, ultimately enhancing the overall customer experience while reducing costs.

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PYMNTS

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 According to the new Digital Fraud Tracker , total losses due to fraud equaled $4.2

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And in the restaurant business, there is little to no time to do any manual review; consumers expect their food sooner rather than later,” Kount Chief Customer Experience Office Rich Stuppy writes for the latest edition of the PYMNTS Mobile Order Ahead Tracker. . Fraudster In Many Forms . Staying Ahead Of The Fraudsters .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But what isn’t debatable is the essential truth of his purported statement — and how relevant it is to the 2020 holiday shopping season, as Kount Chief Customer Experience Officer Rich Stuppy recently told PYMNTS. Starting With A ‘Fraud Mindset’. Whether Sutton ever actually uttered that line is a matter of historical debate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the holiday shopping season in the rear view, retailers across the globe are tallying up their wins and losses. While the holiday retail rush meant big gains for some retailers, it also came with an influx of fraud, both in-store and online, as fraudsters took advantage of a high-pace, high-volume period of transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to the Restaurant Readiness Index , 80 percent of QSR managers and customers reported positive experiences with loyalty programs. Rewards and loyalty programs also make attractive targets for fraud. As a retailer, you can say there’s no practical purpose for a customer to be trying to log onto your network using a bot.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

Put simply, embedded finance is the placing of a financial product in a nonfinancial customer experience, journey, or platform. . I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card.

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Banking Exchange

JUNE 7, 2019

Advances in digital identity authentication are providing a better customer experience while shrinking the window for losses Technology Retail Banking Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Security Checks/Remote Deposit Capture Core Systems Cyberfraud/ID Theft Risk Management Customers Financial Research Feature Financial Trends Feature3.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

The company’s successful start caught the attention of fraudsters who made off with $400,000 worth of luxury cars with stolen identities and credit cards. While the fraud-fighting technology available six years ago didn’t stand a chance of protecting HiGear, the current car-sharing market , which is projected to be worth $16.5

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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. In August 2022, we commissioned a survey of 156 global executives and managers from retail banks and retail financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One year into the shift to chip-enabled cards — for the U.S., The card giant said that, as of July of this year, 88 percent of its U.S.-based based consumer credit cards are chip cards, a tally that represents a 105 percent boost in chip card adoption since the liability shift took root on Oct. 1 of last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. The downsides are that the subscription model is subject to customer churn and high acquisition costs. What Security Means For Subscriptions.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Merchants seeking to serve the rising wave of online shopping have their work cut out for them as they strive to fight fraud and verify consumers while also ensuring that these protective measures do not significantly disrupt the customer experience. Zulily On Fighting Fraud And Cart Abandonment With Digital ID Verification.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

Can data make all the difference in the fight against payments fraud? The discussion played off the findings of a new whitepaper from the firm titled, “Driving Up Conversion with Effective Fraud Management.”. What works in preventing payments fraud at a large airline or telco system may not be germane for an electronics retailer.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Connected commerce is among the hottest trends in retail, and not just for streaming or ridesharing or online gaming services, but for subscription purchases, too. For those online transactions that rely on cards on file to complete recurring payments, however, that figure tends to drop to the 60 percent range on average, he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

“Consumers have a lot of different choices on where and how they purchase their items and services, [so] it’s really important that the merchant provides a quality, seamless customer experience in the hopes that they’ll come back for a repeat of it. Tokenization Can Help Build Sales. Smart Merchants Will Be Proactive.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Not only that, but fresh PYMNTS research sheds light on fraud and facial recognition. Goldman Extends $10B In Apple Card Credit In First Month. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? In other words, it is no longer enough to respond to a fraud attack after it occurs.

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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. And what they want and expect are what’s going to drive so much of retail and payments in the coming years and decades. Shift Intensity. Shift Intensity.

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FICO

MARCH 30, 2023

I will sheepishly admit that since post-COVID travel has picked up again, I’ve found myself traveling with physical card or two crammed into my minimalistic ID-holder, just for rare cases where digital won’t work. Both from a cash and a fraud perspective, my curiosity was piqued, and I fell down the rabbit hole to learn more.

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FICO

AUGUST 21, 2020

There’s one fraud pattern that’s highly predictable: when the economy goes down, fraud goes up. When it comes to fraud and COVID-19, the Great Recession of 2008 provides some important lessons that can help banks and consumers protect themselves against the increased risk. A Resurgence of Specific Fraud Types.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Mastercard, through its collaborative fraud and dispute resolution technology Ethoca , will now offer a new version of online statements with added logos and clear business names for each transaction. The release said doing so is a way to both clear up confusion for customers and also to allow brands a way to establish more presence.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

Put a bit more simply: Retailers face both a data problem and a time problem. In an interview with PYMNTS, Nathan Trueblood, VP of Product Management at DataTorrent , said customer expectations of retailers are changing — adding both challenge and opportunity to that data/time conundrum.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Unattended retail will be a $275 billion-a-year industry in three years. The first data point — 61 percent — reflects the number of these respondents, ages 25 to 30, who would rather use payment cards instead of cash when buying items at unattended terminals. Which all comes down to … Data Point Number Three: 66 percent.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One year on from the launch of EMV chip technology for payment cards in the US, the signs are positive as far as tackling fraud is concerned. Mastercard – the ‘M’ in ‘EMV’ – released figures showing a significant fall in the cost of counterfeit card fraud for US retailers who have adopted EMV.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The nutritional supplement retailer is somewhat unique in the field as a chain that has branched out into the subscriptions market rather than starting wholly online. What happens when a customer changes the address on [her] credit card, or it expires, or it had fraud and [she received] a new credit card?”

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Nordstrom is broadening the scope of its B2B gift card operations by teaming up with prepaid card company CashStar. Using CashStar Business, Nordstrom is now offering Gift Cards for Business, a program that helps its business partners order Nordstrom gift cards and manage accounts. In an announcement Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While dealing with fraud has always been a cost of doing business for merchants, the digital age has changed the game in terms of fighting off fraudsters. While some have speculated that fear of fraud is keeping some merchants out of the game, Stuppy noted that this wasn’t as big of a concern as some might think.

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FICO

AUGUST 24, 2021

As a fraud professional, you may feel as though your organization walks a tightrope, balancing minimal customer friction with maximum risk mitigation. Doug: That sounds a lot different than, “Is this credit card transaction fraudulent?”. Better experiences translate into greater customer loyalty and ultimately, more profits.

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ZootBlog

JUNE 21, 2016

In the first part of our series, we uncovered a multitude of statistics regarding the very real fraud threats that financial institutions, consumers, and merchants face on a daily basis. Malo believes the idea of a “frictionless” customer experience is now an outdated and overreaching goal in effective fraud protection.

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