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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Anti-fraud efforts can seem like word salad with exotic ingredients being tossed around: strong consumer authentication ( SCA ), two-factor authentication (2FA), the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) … you get the idea. Turns out consumers mostly want one thing from mobile banking apps: control.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Banks lost about $4 billion to account takeover (ATO) fraud attempts last year and fraudsters have been reluctant to abandon the scheme as this year progresses. Fraudsters made off with account numbers and other personal details, which could later be used for different synthetic identity fraud or related schemes. digital bank Monzo.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

FinTechs and financial institutions (FIs) are banding together to create a digital dragnet that never sleeps, because crooks never do. vs. the FinTechs. Fraud prevention tech has to scale. Clean’ and ‘Friendly’ Fraud are Neither. That’s “clean” fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In search of added convenience and simplicity, banking customers are migrating to online and mobile banking interfaces, leaving in-person visits to brick-and-mortar branches behind. How Banks Are Weaponizing Data To Fight Fraud. Around The Digital Banking World. About the Tracker.

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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. He said banks and payment processors already have this technology on hand – they’re just not using it correctly. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Perhaps that’s why, in the midst of the seemingly never-ending stream of headlines about data breaches, account takeovers, stolen credit cards and online fraud , the notion of “check fraud” seems something of an outlier for the up-and-coming fraudster looking to make a decent living. The Whole New World of Check Fraud.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of Michael Hsu’s tenure as Acting Comptroller of the Currency, bank/fintech partnerships have been a focus of OCC concern. Mr. Hsu also raised concerns about unknown risks or “nasty surprises” arising out of bank-fintech arrangements.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Legacy banks are similarly at work, with one major FI seeking to beat out FinTech competition by offering same-day access to credit card deposits. Airlines are also seeking to enable speedy mobile payments. Southwest customers can use the mobile wallet to buy ticke ts and pay for other services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Against a backdrop where CNP transactions are up 80 percent, a success rate of only a few percentage points can yield a lucrative fraud scheme. CNP fraud, Nolte said, has become a numbers game. You need some form of anchor of trust,” said Nolte, and the anchor of trust can be rooted in the mobile device.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Digital Demand.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Companies are getting much better at fraud detection and prevention, partly in response to its rapid spread. Then there’s the mobile advertising situation. A leading index of digital theft found that loyalty fraud exploded by 89 percent over 2018, opening a vast new front in the battle. What’s an example of fish fraud?

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Fintech is still alive and well, Gonzobankers, and fintech deals are still happening. Banks Bought More Fintechs (Until Sum mer Break Started!).

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Customers have varying banking needs, but the global fraud phenomenon tends to have equal impacts. Challengers see fraud protection as especially important, particularly as they attempt to ween customers away from legacy FIs and their own nimbler FinTech competitors. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

The January AML/KYC Tracker examines 5AMLD’s significance, as well as other efforts to thwart the fraud attempts challenging the financial sector. Mobile wallet users of India-based FinTech Paytm were recently targeted by scams in which fraudsters falsely claimed that the customers needed to resolve KYC problems.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Providing robust services via mobile channels is especially important now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused businesses to operate remotely and consumers to stay at home as much as possible. FIs must be careful not to lower their fraud-fighting standards in their pursuit of open banking and be selective about the entities they allow in.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

percent of customers reported that having a mobile app is “very” or “extremely” important to them in terms of their CUs’ offerings. The customer isn’t just looking for a slick app on mobile devices, over the phone, at a branch on a desktop or at an ATM. Finding Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms. The challenge lies in the “how.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Maybe it’s the reputation of a brand that lowers the mental resistance to inputting payment and personal details on a mobile device to complete a transaction. Consumers, too, play a role in the wider mobile banking security picture. Trust Advantage. They might want to innovate, but take shortcuts on security.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

s FinTech sector. Independent Panel To Review UK’s FinTech Sector. s FinTech sector is planning a review of the industry to identify opportunities for growth. New Report: Mercado Pago On How Mobile Bridges The LatAm Banking Gap. Radius Bank: Becoming Partners In Crime Prevention Can Help FIs Beat Fraud Rings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

We have seen higher levels of fraud or suspicious activity, [and] we have definitely built up our fraud prevention team. … More Debit Payments, More Debit Fraud. The rise in debit payments makes the cards a more attractive target for fraudsters , meaning banks must pivot their fraud protection efforts accordingly.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have been able to move much faster to address that compared to their lumbering legacy competitors, and that has often left traditional banks to watch as merchants turned to the FinTechs instead.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

As consumers shop amid ongoing public health restrictions, they almost invariably reach for their credit cards — whether the physical varieties in their wallets or the digital versions stored on their browsers and mobile devices. More than ever, credit cards are becoming the coin of the realm in the global connected economy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Everyone knows that digital and mobile services are key to success in the 2020s — not only in terms of more revenue, but also larger transformations. It’s not that banks don’t want to go more digital and mobile, he said. That’s hardly the only factor in play when it comes to getting FIs to become even more digital and mobile.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

FinTech players are also grabbing deposits. Lesher said that’s because consumers “are often putting their card on file at the merchant or leveraging their mobile wallet to make these payments. Square announced $1.3 billion deposits in April — a tripling over the company’s recent history.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. FinTechs want to offer compliant banking services, while community banks want new ways to grow deposits. The FinTech as a Service launched Tuesday (Dec. PayPal has introduced QR code payments in iZettle’s point-of-sale app in the U.K. Fun, Cool And Otherwise Interesting.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Some even say that blockchain will be the most influential FinTech technology of 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Migration to mobile and digital banking ramped up during the pandemic. It confirms that legions of consumers have shifted to online and mobile banking since the pandemic's arrival, and across demographic boundaries, people like it. Fraud Fears, And Loyalty. percent of mobile banking users and 53.1 This we know.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

In China, the central bank has said that it will offer up a three-year development plan for the domestic FinTech sector. The reports state that the FinTech firms in that country “should take the approach of [Chinese president] Xi Jinping’s socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era as the guide.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The fact that fraud is on the rise is not new, nor is it surprising that banks are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to fight back. In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS looks at how banks are currently approaching their use of AI and machine learning in fraud protection and technology innovation.

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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-project-turned-fraud-prevention-solution vs. purpose-built-fraud-prevention-solution.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Lackluster reporting increases the risk of non-compliance with Department of Labor regulations, while legacy systems make fraud and inflated paychecks an easy crime. Two of the largest ways, errors and fraud, are “huge issues,” said Dean Mathews, founder of time tracking solutions provider OnTheClock.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

China-based micro lender Dunxin Financial Holdings this week announced its plans to roll out a mobile-based supply chain finance solution next month. The supply chain finance platform deploys risk analytics as well as automated customer selection, fraud mitigation and credit scoring for users, the company noted.

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