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Kount Offers Anti-Fraud Product Aimed At Insurance Industry

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Idaho-based Kount has released a new product aimed at preventing insurance fraud as the industry increasingly turns to digital, and even mobile, setups. Kount added that this means its business customers “are able to optimize marketing and sales efforts, personalize customer experiences, and reduce the time spent vetting prospects.”.

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Equifax Strikes Deal To Buy Kount

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Equifax has inked a deal to purchase artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fraud prevention and digital identity technology provider Kount for $640 million. As digital migration accelerates, managing authentication and online fraud while optimizing the consumer's experience has become one of our customers' top challenges,” Equifax CEO Mark W.

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Feasting, Fun And Fraud Mark The Mobile Order-Ahead Summer

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With the National Restaurant Association projecting up to $240 billion in losses by the end of 2020 and millions of restaurant jobs gone, along with their former workplaces, a nation mourns our glorious gastronomic past. Another involves heightened fraud vectors swimming like sharks around digital-first first-timers.

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Online Retailers Face New Threats From Hackers

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Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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Biometrics: Eliminating telephone banking fraud

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Tom Harwood, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Aeriandi discusses the use of voice biometrics within contact centre operations, how this can help combat fraud, and how the technology has wider potential for customer experience. Recent research from Get Safe Online and the National Fraud.

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Today In Payments: California Proposes Financial Watchdog; Germany Launches Investigation Into Amazon

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California lawmakers are moving quickly to create a financial watchdog agency as a new department of their state government, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates financial crime across the nation. How QSRs Are Fighting Digital Food Fraud. Germany Launches Investigation Into Amazon.

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Retail Enabler: CardinalCommerce Protects SMBs From Holiday Fraud

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‘Tis the season … to be very, very wary of phishing and other types of fraud. Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to increase year over year — while some project online holiday sales at $98 billion, new estimates from the National Retail Foundation project that this year’s online holiday sales could reach $117 billion.

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