PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s been replete with stumbles and delays getting the new technology paradigm off the ground — most notably in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a global event that put the brakes on projects large and small worldwide. When the card networks first started mandating EMV, McCutcheon said, there was heavy resistance. Why 3DS 2.0

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Abrigo

AUGUST 19, 2020

Key Takeaways BSA officers need to stay aware of emerging fraud trends that are a result of the pandemic. Consider a risk-based lookback for your PPP portfolio to fight fraud. Embrace technology to help your department and institution successfully shift to remote work. Below are five ways typical AML software catches fraud: .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Studies showed that many consumers in the United States have begun tapping their debit cards more often for payments, for example, with one report finding that debit use rose about 6 percent year over year. Another study indicated that debit-related fraud is on the rise across the U.S. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

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.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 19, 2020

Key Takeaways COVID-19-related fraud are not new typologies; they just have a new spin. Adjusting your velocity scenarios can help detect money mule scams and check fraud. . COVID-19-related fraud schemes are escalating at an alarming rate. How can your transaction monitoring system detect trending COVID-19 related fraud?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

To that end, late last week Equifax said it had reached a deal to acquire fraud prevention and digital ID firm Kount for $640 million. As reported, the deal will enable Equifax to boost its global presence in digital ID and fraud prevention, including through the Kount Identity Trust Global Network. In a Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker , PYMNTS examines how fraudsters are utilizing mobile and app-based channels for fraud attacks, as well as why fraudsters are still relying on phishing as a major fraud strategy even as they increase their use of new technologies and techniques. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled the Razer Card prepaid card, while SafetyPay has joined forces with LATAM’s Rappi. Razer Fintech, Visa Pitch New Prepaid Card to Young Adults in Singapore. Digital Payment Firm SafetyPay Teams With LATAM's Rappi. through March 2024.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leslie Ragan manages transaction fraud prevention for Elan Financial Services , a unit of U.S. Bank , one of the largest commercial banks in the United States. Leveraging Advanced Technologies. Effective cyber-fraud strategies must be comprehensive, nimble and intelligence-driven,” she said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Or will cards with cutting-edge technology win more loyalty from shoppers? The payment card has “a long life ahead of it,” he told Karen Webster. Even if you consider technologies like mobile, you can see that the consumer is still paying with payment cards.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

FIS, the financial services technology, and Cardtronics, the ATM owner/operator, announced Thursday (June 29) plans to integrate FIS Cardless Cash access across Cardtronics’ ATM fleet in the United States. With the technology, consumers can access their funds and authorize how much to withdraw without needing a physical card.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

We have deep dives into in-house restaurant ordering apps and cloud technology, as well as a report on banks running short on large bills amid the coronavirus crisis. It takes effort to balance seamless-but-fraud-free user experiences. Main Street USA Was Healthy In February, But Coronavirus Is The Wild Card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Visa announced that the growing number of chip cards and chip-enabled merchants has helped bring counterfeit fraud in the U.S. payments industry to begin the shift to EMV chip cards in 2011,” the company wrote in a press release. payment volume in March was on EMV cards. down by 76 percent. Visa set the path for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Credit and debit card payments are continuing to increase in terms of usage, with the Federal Reserve finding credit and debit card payments accounted for more than two-thirds of all noncash payments in the U.S. Among the key findings of the report was an increase of card payments to 19.9 from 2012 to 2015. What’s more, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Sometimes the cards are ancillary to a different criminal purpose.

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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 10, 2020

In the March Digital Identity Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital IDs, including the rise of biometrics in the border control sector, challenges to digital ID posed by the new coronavirus outbreak and a new credit card-mounted fingerprint reader from NatWest. This market is expected to be valued at $3.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fraud Trends. Drilling down a bit, the FBI found increased incidences of gift card-related scams , and said, “The victims received a spoofed email, a spoofed phone call or a spoofed text from a person in authority, requesting the victim purchase multiple gift cards for either personal or business reasons.”. Fraud Crackdown.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

Regardless of the company, its industry, its customers or location, online fraud remains top of mind. The urgency of robust and multilayered fraud detection systems becomes especially clear against a backdrop where card-not-present fraud is likely to grow by leaps and bounds in the wake of the EMV liability shift from last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and other businesses that are looking to enable these rapid payments must therefore ensure that their security and fraud-fighting approaches are up to the challenge. Advanced analytics technologies could help FIs tackle such issues, however, by making it easier for FIs to detect potential red flags.

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FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

With any change, fraud comes hand-in-hand. All these evolutions mean a changing landscape for retail fraud and scam trends. Let’s take a look at the current state of affairs, and how consumers and banks can fight back. Will Zelle Join Apple Pay, GooglePay and Credit Cards at Point of Sale?

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FICO

JUNE 14, 2021

In this post, I’ll provide a quick overview of how BNPL works, and share my thoughts on how BNPL fraud can occur and where the financial liability lays. . For many options, borrowers first create an account with each BNPL firm they want to use, providing their debit card or bank information as the payment mechanism. A BNPL Primer.

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ZootBlog

MAY 18, 2016

This is the first in a two-part series as we look more deeply at fraud concerns and best practices for managing this ever-changing threat. Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been discussing fraud mitigation strategies on ZootBlog—everything from EMV chip cards to encryption, tokenization, and biometrics.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

CashShield , an online fraud management solution for mid- to large-sized enterprises, announced Tuesday (June 26) it raised $20 million via a round of fundraising. Investors, too, see the value, and are supporting us in our fight against the online fraud boom.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

After nearly three years, the transition to EMV in the United States still has its challenges. Go back to the first big change in cashier technology, he told PYMNTS, and “the fact that cash registers could even accept integrated payments was a huge change,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Perhaps the last and best hope in the battle against ID fraud – the kind that brings ruin to credit reports and billions of dollars in losses to card companies and merchants. This is the percentage of new account fraud victims who discover they are, well, victims when they are contacted by a debt collector. Digital DNA.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2018

Over the last seven years, as chip technology has entered the market, Visa has deployed more than 460 million chip cards and readers at more than 2.5 As has been noted by the firm and in this space , in the two years since EMV chip cards launched in the United States, fraud has declined by 66 percent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Developers can literally come in, sign up and start building a card product,” said Gardner. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our fraud capabilities have advanced so that signatures are no longer necessary to fight fraud. According to American Express, the need for signatures has been declining around the globe thanks to payments advancements such as contactless offerings, the global adoption of EMV chip technology and the continued expansion of eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The pandemic has cost more than 300,000 lives in the United States alone, and it has also challenged many institutions — such as credit unions (CUs) — that were never designed to operate on a primarily remote basis. It also offers participating CUs customized consulting services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These bad actors often take advantage of the chaos to steal credit cards, scam merchants and wreak other types of retail havoc. This type of fraud covers for cybercriminals by tricking unsuspecting consumers into believing that they have landed lucrative work opportunities when they are actually participating in criminal enterprises.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

With the transaction now complete, Fiserv is one of the world’s largest payment and financial technology providers. As reported, Global Payments is the third-largest merchant acquirer in the United States, while TSYS is the third-largest card processor in the country. It can be confusing to figure out what to do.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

Due to consumers increasing use of cashless forms of payment for everyday transactions, there has been a rise in counter money laundering, frauds and terrorism. With each step forward in the technology arena, the payment process becomes more complex and businesses are working to ensure security.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

Each company, said the CEO, comes at the fraud problem from a different perspective. Beyond the technology, the key is to look at behavioral patterns and other telltale signs that would indicate that “you are either a good internet customer or a bad internet customer, a fraudster or a good citizen.”.

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