PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. PAAY provides strong authentication at the front door and Bluefin encrypts and tokenizes the data at the point of interaction on the web. Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Call centers are facing the potential of fraud from inside and outside their facilities, and they are taking multi-pronged approaches to tackle these security challenges. Data: 350 percent: The rate that contact center fraud has grown over the past four years. history.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That said, IoT device creators and consumers are looking at IoT security with a higher level of scrutiny. In the February Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS examines how countries, developers and consumers are responding to increased calls for security, as well as how the IoT market is growing worldwide. Around the IoT World.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming, non-payment/non-delivery, extortion and personal data breaches were among the favored attack patterns last year. As for the areas where scammers managed the biggest hits, business email compromise (BEC), confidence/romance fraud and spoofing were the top three types of crime in terms of monetary losses.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 2, 2018

Security and fraud risk remain the top priority for retail banks seeking to update their payments infrastructure, a study released this week by ACI WorldWide and Ovum found.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Fraud continues to increase in many areas, despite extensive attempts to bring it to heel. Retail fraud attempts have doubled year over year, for example, while account takeover (ATO) fraud losses recently hit $14.7 billion , and phishing attacks now comprise 30 percent of all fraud attempts. billion to $7.2 million USD).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Mobile banking is under constant attack from fraudsters, however, who are targeting both customers’ funds and personal data, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, payment card data and login credentials. ATMs are common avenues for fraud, however, especially those that are running outdated software.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Money laundering and similar forms of fraud have become more concerning for FIs as reports of cybercrime circulate globally. Part of the problem is that money laundering controls are easier for fraudsters to anticipate than security measures for other cybercrimes. security standards from those in markets like Europe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Banks must enable fast and seamless onboarding experiences, but these processes should also be secure. New account fraud is a significant problem for FIs, with 48 percent of values generated from fraud attempts coming from accounts that have only been open for one day, according to a recent report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The growing cost of online fraud – and finding ways to detect it – has long been a costly concern of financial institutions (FIs). If you beat the geolocation fraud, you beat all the fraud,” Briggs said. One minute I was in Italy, the next minute I was in Seattle – and I’m coming in from a data center, right?

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Fraudsters and financial institutions (FIs) are constantly evolving to best each other, and growth in synthetic ID fraud is revealing that many banks must enhance their security measures to stay in the lead. Researchers dubbed synthetic ID fraud the “fastest-growing form of identity theft” in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Those new avenues of fraud have leveraged hallmarks of the current pandemic — fears over public health and concerns about stimulus checks issued by the government — to snare unwitting victims. . . According to some estimates, as many as 22 percent of Americans have been impacted by COVID-related fraud. . .

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. Examples of remote authentication fraud. New account fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Fraud targeting digital banking users has been around as long as digital banking itself, but it has recently become more prevalent. The pandemic is exacerbating the problem, with a study finding that 22 percent of Americans were the targets of pandemic-related fraud attempts as of March. APP fraud is not a new occurrence.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

That would be terrific news, Kount Chief Customer Experience Officer Rich Stuppy told PYMNTS in an interview, except for one thing: fraudsters love seeing consumer-centric innovations because those present fresh access points for ill-gotten gains. But he added that fighting fraud isn’t about building the highest possible wall.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Banking institutions are responding by integrating advanced technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and data analytics, into their lending operations to enhance efficiency and adaptability. Explore and integrate alternative data sources and innovative scoring models to offer fairer assessments of creditworthiness.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Customers and merchants rely on their banks and credit unions (CUs) to ensure they have secure, convenient online transactions, and many FIs work to detect fraud by looking for abnormal purchasing behaviors that could indicate something is amiss. Around The FI Fraud Decisioning World.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

As Thorness explained, their embrace of ACH processing technologies is likely to have far-reaching impacts into how they send and receive payments with government suppliers, too, particularly as ACH innovation accelerates. ” Accelerating ACH Innovation. “There is a great emphasis on data security,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As a result of the passage and adoption of open banking regulations, like PSD2 in Europe, banks and other financial firms are sharing data more freely than ever before. While these initiatives are spurring more focused financial services innovations, they also come with challenges. Adapting To Open Banking .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This rampant availability of users’ data makes it easier for bad actors to wreak havoc and commit fraud. She recently spoke to PYMNTS about how Scotiabank has revamped its fraud strategy in recent years. “I Scotiabank’s Three-Pronged Innovation Strategy. It is estimated that more than 4.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the eCommerce experience – not just in terms of warding off fraud, but also in making sure payments can be processed efficiently and that the most effective payment gateways are accessed. At least some of that data, he said, can be gathered at the point of sale interaction.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Fraud Threats To Digital Banking. These attacks involve hackers gaining access to bank customers’ accounts and doing as they please with them, whether transferring funds to the hackers’ own accounts or pilfering personal data like passwords or U.S. Social Security numbers. Identity fraud accounted for $16.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And online shopping and digital fraud are increasing simultaneously, but merchants can take steps to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are kept safe. All this, Today in Data. Data: $5.5M : Amount of funding recently secured by social impact commerce platform ShoppingGives. 92%: Portion of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud services like AWS , Dropbox and Google Cloud store terabytes of users’ personal information and payment data, making them prime targets for fraudsters looking to wreak havoc. The cloud security space needs to completely rethink its options if such strong systems can still be breached.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This week's look at payment rail innovation is all about speed, both for legacy rails and new ones. Combining these elements, we are creating a broad platform with faster technology and smarter and better services that the industry can trust as a foundation for innovation towards their own end-clients," he added.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

AI is increasingly being used to automate a variety of tasks in financial services institutions, including customer service, fraud detection, and loan applications. Banks are using AI to analyze large amounts of data, make predictions, and automate complex processes. We’re observing the banking industry’s growing use of RPA.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 3, 2019

Because of this, traditional rules-based fraud detection systems have become outdated and no longer work. Today, real-time payments require real-time fraud detection. Modern payment fraud schemes require modern prevention. Data science projects can have unexpected results in the real world. This is no easy feat.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Simply put, the back-office systems are ill-equipped to handle the demands of technological innovation, especially as financial services cross channels. The Challenges Of Multi-Channel Payment Innovation. 1: Security. For many firms, with legacy infrastructure that has been in place for decades, scale becomes difficult.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Phixius provides interoperability between various participants connecting to the platform, enabling better security in moving data as opposed to storing it in a central repository like the cloud. Phixius' technology is said to help boost fraud protection, automate manual processes and deliver better customer experiences.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 25, 2017

Customer fears about card security and fraud is increasing, but as it turns out, fewer consumers are actually experiencing that fraud. This is according to the Consumer Payment Card Data Security Perceptions survey by data solutions provider Transaction Network Services, released today.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Social Security number (SSN) was never meant to get this much attention. It was never meant to be shorthand for, well, you – proving that you are who you say you are, serving as a gateway to all manner of sensitive data and, of course, financial accounts. The effort involved is daunting enough to stop them from trying.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Omni Security and Authentication. Consumers expect to do business with their bank online seamlessly, without the hassle of complicated security checks, whether through their mobile phone, smart watch, home speaker or other connected device. Around The Security And Authentication Space. presidential election.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Mobile ordering services, advanced drive-thrus and customer safety and security are the top customer priorities for restaurants amid the pandemic. Safety and Security. Securing payment data and other aspects of the customer experience is the keystone to driving customer demand during the pandemic and in the future.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

In other security news, phone numbers can provide a treasure trove of information about a consumer who is trying to open an account with an online merchant, onboard to an online service or sign up for a new banking account. All this, Today in Data. Data: 95 percent: Minimum share of people in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Fraud protection techniques have advanced rapidly over the past decade to keep pace with fraudsters preying on emerging weak points. Banks, businesses and others still have numerous fraud problems to address, from text-based scams and phishing to synthetic identity theft. Fraudsters and the Access Problem.

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