PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. consumers were expected to spend more than $190 billion online this season, up 36 percent from 2019, while in-store commerce was predicted to fall by 4.7

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PYMNTS

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. were caught up “in a perfect storm” of rapid online sales growth and the transition to EMV chip technology , leaving merchants vulnerable to CNP fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing time and again and expecting different results, then perhaps the way we pay through, and interact with, online banking may have a hint of madness, or at least complacency. Studies abound on the impact of payments fraud, said Volmar. Put another way: What haven’t we learned?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. Though consumers have been taught to keep their physical IDs safe, a study by PYMNTS found that these practices have a long way to go in the digital space.

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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.”. In just two of the most popular ‘carding’ forums, 1.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables. This development is fitting, considering the degree to which commerce has shifted online since the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. Virtual cards can improve accounts payable (AP) processes, benefiting both buyers and suppliers by streamlining day-to-day payments, and providing greater control over cash flows.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

How secure do you feel when it comes to payments? Consider a survey commissioned by payment, telecom and financial data solutions provider Transaction Network Services (TNS), which found that 85 percent of adults across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia believe fraud attempts on debit and credit cards are on the upswing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

As the popularity of online shopping continues to rise, it comes as no surprise that there has also been an uptick in card-not-present purchases. Worldwide, eCommerce card payments generated $2.7 “The improving convenience and security of the eCommerce channel are key drivers of this growth.” In 2006, 6.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks. According to a new LexisNexis study , overall retail fraud attempts doubled year-over-year and tripled since 2017. By its measures, merchants pay $3.13

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Visa announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is rolling out enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. As part of the upgrade, Visa said it was enhancing its systems to support 3-D Secure 2.0,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s been said cybercriminals look for the path of least resistance when they target businesses or online marketplaces to steal data or money. And, increasingly, online gaming platforms — attractive to the bad guys due to their scale and relative anonymity — are in the crosshairs. The tools are there, but mindset matters.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Cybercriminals deploy a variety of tactics to process their ill-gotten gains, ranging from techniques as basic as exchanging gift cards to ones as advanced as setting up fake eCommerce storefronts. A study found that almost half of all U.S. Two-thirds of customers also felt that companies’ account security measures were subpar.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

However, according to the Remote Payments Study conducted by PYMNTS in September 2018, behavior habits are shared by consumers based on income, age and gender. The most popular method of discovery by those who paid using mobile was online (13.9 percent) and credit cards (28.7 mCommerce isn’t one-dimensional. More women (54.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Multifactor authentication (MFA) and biometric scans are quickly becoming the norm in numerous fields, including online accounts for banks and other businesses. The telecommunications industry is but one of many sectors looking to more securely verify customers and avoid fraud, which remains a growing problem. About The Tracker.

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NCR

MAY 14, 2018

With more countries investing in faster payments solutions, there are more options than ever for people to complete a purchase online. But the number one option remains online card payments, and new research has highlighted several reasons why this is the case. Where card payments still lag behind.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to a recent survey by Transaction Network Services (TNS), 85 percent of adults in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia believe fraud attempts on debit and credit cards are on the upswing. In-store results of the TNS survey show less trust in in-person transactions than online transactions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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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 found that 55 percent of U.S. Another study found that 55 percent of U.S. The report noted that U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

It’s undeniably advantageous to the world economy, with a recent study finding that national digital ID systems could induce GDP growth of up to 13 percent. The Drawbacks of Complex Security. AI Solutions for Balancing Security and Convenience. Blockchain-Based Security Methods.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. These wallets are connected to familiar debit or credit cards, the details of which must also be kept safe from enterprising fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eateries are turning to online and mobile ordering as well as delivery to stay afloat, with online order volume from food chains spiking by 225 percent since the pandemic began. The higher volume of online delivery orders experienced during the pandemic has made this scheme harder to spot and easier to execute than ever before.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2018

outpaced growth in noncash payments overall between 2012 and 2015, according to a Federal Reserve Payments Study released this week. The study’s survey of depository institutions found noncash payments fraud increased 37%, from $6.1 Noncash payments fraud in the U.S. billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion, in 2015.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Mobile wallet usage is increasing across the globe, but for countries with more fleshed-out credit card networks, that growth is still slow. This is according to the second part of the Global Consumer Survey: Consumer Trust and Security Perceptions report conducted by ACI Worldwide and the Aite Group.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Launched in the Ukraine a decade ago, the internet-based cybercriminal enterprise stole identities, compromised debit and credit cards and personal, financial and banking information and spread computer malware, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Recent reports indicate an uptick in fraudsters targeting large FIs, and headlines surrounding security breaches and cyberattacks fill the news on a near-daily basis. Visa and Mastercard designed the 3DS protocols and provide them under the names Verified by Visa and Mastercard Secure Code. solutions going forward.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. This makes data security of utmost importance to CUs, but even attacks on unrelated third parties can be devastating to CU members. percent in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Online classes are also gaining the attention of workers who have been laid off during the economic downturn and want to refresh their skills or build new ones and attracting employees who may be seeking to polish their know-how while working from home. . These demands are not always met, however. Mobile money service M-Pesa is used by 24.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

The more connected devices consumers have, the more concerned they are about the security of their financial information. But half had also purchased something online in that same time, showing that the way people shop is shifting. Nearly 80 percent of respondents had made a purchase in a physical store within the last week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Merchants, card issuers and banks are no strangers to facing off against evolving fraud threats. The pandemic has driven consumers to make the bulk of their purchases online, leading many businesses and retailers to struggle with securing their digital infrastructures and payments processes while managing floods of orders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

In online banking, 40 percent abandonment is … intolerable. As many as four in 10 consumers have at some point in their journey into online banking found the process frustrating enough to give up, as estimated by Signicat. In life, 40 percent of anything is a lot. And the frustration level has grown.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

When the chips are down, consumers love and trust their debit cards. Debit cards remain the payment method of choice among U.S. consumers, regardless of whether they are shopping online or in stores, according to recent reports,” notes PYMNTS October Next-Gen Debit Tracker® done in collaboration with PULSE , A Discover Company. “One

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

PYMNTS January 2021 Next-Gen Debit Tracker® done in collaboration with PULSE , A Discover Company, notes, “Banks, government agencies and retailers have scrambled to adjust to consumers’ digital spending and payment shifts during the pandemic, but doing so swiftly has presented security challenges. Sensible Debit Needs To Be More Secure .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Online and digital research company Juniper Research released a new report on Tuesday (March 19) saying the yearly value of virtual cards (temporary cards only usable for one transaction) is going to grow, but that adoption to the technology will be slow, according to a news release. percent from 2019 to 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The activity reported arises from customers using the same usernames and passwords on multiple online accounts and those details being involved in a data breach on another platform, not on Deliveroo,” a Deliveroo spokesperson said. “As You have allowed nearly £1k of fraudulent transactions on my card.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Online glasses retailer Warby Parker was hit by a cybersecurity attack that affected about 198,000 of its customers from late September to late November, according to reports. The company said it didn’t have any indication that the attacks were successful in stealing any credit card information.

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