PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Cybercriminals are finding it best to approach fraud with an omnichannel strategy , which involves hitting every customer service channel for best results. At the same time, however, online platforms are aiming to protect their users as fraud mounts. 89 percent: Year-over-year increase in loyalty program fraud between 2018 and 2019.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

It was a busy week for payments and commerce news, and the new PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

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’s fraud protection platform increases profitability and reduces fraudulent claims with digital identity verification and advanced artificial intelligence.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. It’s great to see the prioritization on innovation with this bill,” Wingert said, calling the AML regulatory changes important. Can you really know your customer if you don’t know their location?”

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JUNE 23, 2020

Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud. PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. Bank Of Thailand Readies New Infrastructure. Federal Reserve Tackles Fraud Across Rails. In the U.S., And when it comes to legacy rails, the U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Takeaway 2 The panel encouraged banks and credit unions to change their approach to compliance and technology, getting compliance involved sooner in new initiatives to encourage safe innovation. Takeaway 3 Attracting new and younger customers is a top priority for community financial institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The pandemic has pushed us to do all things digitally while opening up new vectors of attack. 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. . .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Chase On Using Machine Learning To Crack Fraud’s Goldilocks Conundrum. The global threat of fraud shows no signs of slowing down. Losses related to fraud are valued at $14.7 billion, according to the most recent DataVisor Fraud Index Report. Mastercard: Fraud-Fighting’s New Mantra — Test, Protect, Prevent.

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BankInovation

JANUARY 25, 2022

The buy now, pay later industry (BNPL) provides an innovation rail for alternative lending processes and real-time fund access, but it is also opening doors for advanced fraud techniques. Featurespace uses machine learning […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

How To Build A High Performing Platform Payments Fraud Team. For digital platforms, fraud represents a two-headed beast. As largely online operations, they are tempting targets for fraudsters and hackers — therefore, robust anti-fraud systems are vital. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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. BEC fraud does not respect seniority, and it pays exceedingly well.”. billion (or slightly over half) of all losses tracked in 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the pace of digital innovation across the financial sector, and credit unions (CUs) are no exception. For more on these and other CU news items, download this month’s Tracker. Developments From Around The CU Ecosystem. How Balancing Members’ Needs Improves End-To-End ATM Experiences.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

In the August Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including how the pandemic is driving ATM innovation, how FIs are protecting both digital accounts and ATMs from potential fraudsters, and the new cybercrime-fighting techniques that are revolutionizing the digital banking industry.

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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

MAY 29, 2020

It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. Innovating The ATM Beyond Cash. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, almost 40 percent of U.S. Also, Visa says chip cards have reduced counterfeit fraud by 87 percent since their inception, and Grab is planning to earmark $150 million for additional research into artificial intelligence (AI). Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud by 87 Pct.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Money laundering and similar forms of fraud have become more concerning for FIs as reports of cybercrime circulate globally. dollar as their currency of choice on the black market, which means American banks must alter their anti-fraud and AML strategies — especially as regulatory fragmentation divides the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The need for innovation springs from many sources. It might come from the need to solve issues like waste fraud and abuse in the byzantine world of healthcare payments. Or it could take the form of a black swan event like the Wuhan Coronavirus – and the global scramble to innovate around a very unexpected disruption.

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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. Australian FIs are still feeling the repercussions of a breach to its New Payments Platform (NPP), which exposed the data of an unnamed number of banking customers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Coverage this week includes a new Amex financial service, deep looks at real-time payments and the woes at WeWork, advances in voice retail and payments, a potential new opportunity for financial institutions, and original PYMNTS research into use case for artificial intelligence. MyPayrollHR Founder Faces $70M Fraud Charge.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

In fact, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. percent of those focused on data analytics said they also focused on fraud management solutions in the previous three years, compared to only 60.6 For example, 91.7 Other notable findings include: 79.4

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

The cellphone is an invention; the smartphone is an innovation. That gap between creating something and putting it to ingenious use is where innovation does its magic. percent of executives at large CUs reported planning card issuance innovations for these reasons, respectively. Our study shows that 83.3 percent and 66.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

There’s another way, though, in which the fear of fraud bears down on the enterprise. A new report from Vesta Corporation finds fraud positions itself in the way of innovation and growth, even compliance. to understand how payments fraud is limiting corporates’ path to success.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

In the old days, forged checks were the biggest problems that bank fraud departments had to manage. It is no wonder that fraud prevention is one of the problem areas that FIs hope artificial intelligence (AI) can help resolve. Yet, few FIs leverage this technology in their anti-fraud efforts — only 5.5 What’s more, only 12.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

However, to do so, these companies will need to make some adjustments to their fraud protection strategies. Implementing a layered anti-fraud approach that utilizes several technologies could help protect against bad actors looking for vulnerabilities. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

From enhancing the supply chain process to learning more about consumers’ shopping behavior, machine learning is a technology that’s at the forefront of retail advancements and innovation. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 Businesses have been in the news as of late in terms of using machine learning for their benefits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

Among direct losses, there is fraud , both internal and external, which tends to eat up revenue. And inefficiency exacts higher costs than the money that dribbles out the door – there are also the invisible losses of sales never made due to a bad consumer experience , and opportunities never pursued for lack of innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

PYMNTS' September Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook , done in collaboration with NICE Actimize , analyzes the pandemic-era fraud landscape and identifies its many pitfalls. This fraud targets all demographics and generations, with U.S. Financial crime-fighters simply won’t suffer this state of affairs.

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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

MAY 28, 2020

Digital-fraud-protection company Kount said Thursday (May 28) that Mercator Advisory Group has named it the best eCommerce Fraud Detection Solution from among more than 40 products ranked. As fraud threats evolve, we will continue to advance our products to protect our customers.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The seizure stemmed from a cryptocurrency fraud scheme being investigated by Brazilian federal police called Operation Egypto. In addition, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) has warned banks to look out for cryptocurrency-related fraud, with reports rising due to pandemic-related chaos in recent months.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Fraudsters have unfortunately also carefully followed this payment trend, with skimming, prepaid card and ATM fraud all seeing upticks recently — especially in regard to debit transactions. Another study indicated that debit-related fraud is on the rise across the U.S. Around The Next-Gen Debit World. The report noted that U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

They are going to have to update how they mitigate and control fraud and risk and update their systems. With a few changes and efforts to fill in these obvious gaps, they could solve this problem and have a very comprehensive fraud and risk solution,” she said. Before, there was not as much attention paid as there needed to be.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything — with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have a deep, data-supported dive on fighting fraud with artificial intelligence (AI), an outlook on seven 2020 trendlines and news on gas station cyberattacks.

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