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Want Better Fraud Prevention? Build A Better Team

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One day — maybe one that has already happened for some PYMNTS readers — we might look back with fondness and nostalgia on that time when chargebacks stood as the main worry merchants and other organizations faced when it came to fraud and risk. That sort of fraud prevention spends 100 percent of the time on that one aspect of fraud, he noted.

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Vocalink On The Grim Facts Behind Financial Crime’s $1.4T Toll

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Squeezed out of tried-and-true methods of card fraud (thanks in no small part to EMV), the fraudsters are eyeing how to interfere with the money that firms legitimately send in the course of normal, daily business life. Among the more prevalent criminal methods focused on business, according to Divitt: new relationship fraud.

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How ?Adaptive? Decisioning Helps Issuers Stop Treating ?Good? Customers Like Fraudsters

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For merchants and financial institutions (FIs), the “new normal” of commerce — done increasingly online — means that battling fraud is a bit like feeling an elephant. The pandemic has paved the way for fraudsters to try new avenues of attack, and is laying bare the limitations of the fraud prevention tools currently deployed.

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Retail’s 2020 Digital-First Payments Roadmap

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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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Tracing The Rise Of Multi-Issuer Mobile Wallets

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That can bring or encourage broader collaboration and richer user experiences. “In Nothing comes easy, of course, and that holds true for multi-issuer mobile wallets. In Latin America, mobile penetration is high,” Fox said, “which makes new banking services possible.” Simply having an offering is not enough, as Fox noted.

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For AML, Three ‘I’s: Innovation, Interoperability … And Identity

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That sentiment was underscored earlier this month when South Korea said it would delist a number of altcoins from an exchange over privacy concerns – namely, the anonymous nature of the transactions are at odds with the goals of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which include combating money laundering and fraud.

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FIDO’s Roadmap To eCommerce’s ‘Holy Grail’

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Then over time, when people start to take that as a normal experience, we will start to see companies that are especially concerned about fraud and security” and follow in the early adopters’ footsteps. A standard, of course, simplifies process and allows innovators to work with a foundation upon which to build.