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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. A Big-Picture Approach To Thwarting Debit Fraud.

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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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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. Federal Reserve Tackles Fraud Across Rails. The solution supports the need to classify fraud independently of payment type or other payment characteristic.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Five Dutch banks recently formed a group to protect their systems against money launderers, but only after three of them shook off fines and anti-money laundering (AML) strategy investigations. Consumers want speed and personalization, but they don’t want to sacrifice security,” he said. AML Strategies and Innovation Quirks.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This week's look at payment rail innovation is all about speed, both for legacy rails and new ones. It was a big week for payments messaging solution provider SWIFT , which announced that it will be revamping its real-time payments strategy. BitPay Secures Wyre Integration.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Still, researchers have found, many businesses do just that: RedSeal released a report this month that described the state of corporates’ approach to enterprise security as one of “cyber naïveté,” with many executives believing that their existing strategies are sufficient to ward off a cyberattack.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. Yet, each of these strategies to modernization is a double-edged sword, exposing a bank — and, thus, its partners and customers — to a new breed of fraud risks. ” Innovation’s Security Downsides.

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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. The Technology Barrier .

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The cybersecurity world is witnessing a potentially new, dangerous threat: according to insurance firm Euler Hermes, one of its corporates fell victim to cyber fraud after attackers used sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology to impersonate the firm’s chief executive officer by mimicking his voice on the phone.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Explore and integrate alternative data sources and innovative scoring models to offer fairer assessments of creditworthiness. To address this, institutions are increasingly turning to technology-driven solutions aimed at enhancing service reliability, compliance, and security.

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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. cents per every $100 transacted.

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JULY 2, 2020

Although CU members want innovation in member loyalty and rewards, most credit unions are not delivering these programs up to the desired standards. Credit union members’ high expectations when it comes to loyalty innovation do not necessarily make or break their banking relationships. Loyalty Innovation Strategies .

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JULY 31, 2019

However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype. Banks are increasingly focusing on the fundamentals when determining their innovation agendas. Payment technology is in many ways the flagship among the fleet of innovations that banks are pursuing.

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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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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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OCTOBER 29, 2018

While these initiatives are spurring more focused financial services innovations, they also come with challenges. These initiatives could also lead to an increase in security risks, since sharing data among a range of financial service providers creates new opportunities for it to fall into the wrong hands. Protecting APIs.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Alisdair is a technology entrepreneur and brings nearly two decades of industry experience to his role leading product management and strategy for ThreatMetrix. He is a noted industry expert in online fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, information security and networking technology and holds several patents in security, fraud and networking.

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MAY 28, 2020

This means FIs must be able to ferret out and defend against an ever-more complex array of attacks, and they deploy advanced fraud detection strategies and designate additional resources to keep themselves and their customers safe. Staying ahead of fraud requires constant innovation. Red Flag Behaviors.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Mobile and online banking providers have been upping their fraud protection measures over the last decade, making it more difficult for bad actors to rely on some of the schemes that previously worked in such channels. Banks are dealing with rapid rises in fraud schemes such as ATOs, synthetic identity fraud and account opening fraud.

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Cisco

JULY 26, 2022

The pandemic brought into focus the need for financial institutions to become more agile and resilient in the event of any disruption, not just from innovative competitors. Organizational agility is about looking for innovative ways to build resilience, protect revenue streams, streamline operations, and ensure employee engagement.

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JULY 10, 2020

Just as in other markets, eChecks, ACH, paper checks, wires and credit cards all come with their various benefits, as well as their pain points, from high processing fees to a lack of security. It’s why, said Muller, payment innovators in the cannabis market must keep a macro view while targeting micro use-cases and user populations.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

As with any payment method, fraud attacks and human errors can upend customer experiences unless companies have strong security strategies in place. Alvarez explained in a recent PYMNTS interview how effectively securing real-time transactions requires thorough contingency planning and advanced customer verification methods.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation can be a blanket term in the banking world. Is artificial intelligence (AI) for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance innovation? The latest Innovation Readiness Playbook surveyed more than 200 bank executives to reveal the role that core processing and IT infrastructure play in innovation performance and strategy.

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JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. Deep Dive: Retailers Brace For SCA’s Downsides.

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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

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We have deep dives on digital onboarding at universities, subscriptions and quick-service restaurant (QSR) friendly fraud. What Innovators Can Learn from Netflix . Helping QSRs Fight Food Fraud. Eateries have been combating chargeback fraud, which is also referred to as friendly fraud , for years. Top News .

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JULY 10, 2019

These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver – but when platforms focus on reducing friction for users, it can backfire and create new vulnerabilities to fraud. An unexpected consequence of the retailer race to offer same-day and one-day delivery is increased fraud exposure. Nearly one-third (30.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Countering digital fraud is a lot like playing whack-a-mole: As soon as one fraudster is taken out, two more pop up where they’re least expected. The popularity of digital banking services has created ample opportunities for bad actors, leaving banks scrambling to protect themselves against the rising tide of fraud. It helps.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Much of what commercial card innovators seek to address is a massive pain point for adoption: supplier acceptance. Such was the strategy of JPMorgan in its latest corporate card initiative. However, in this week’s Commercial Card Innovation roundup, it wasn’t the point of friction that technology firms were addressing.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Federal Reserve System has appointed its Payments Security Strategy leader, the agency announced Friday (Dec. He will lead the Fed’s initiative to address payments fraud risk and boost the security of payments in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. To do so, however, these companies will need to make some adjustments to their fraud protection strategies.

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JULY 2, 2020

How FIs Adapt Fraud Detection During Times of Behavioral Upheaval. In this month’s Feature Story, Mejia explained the strategies and technologies helping FIs overcome this challenge and shift fraud-fighting approaches to suit customers’ new habits. Find more about these and the rest of the latest headlines in the Tracker.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Federal Reserve is turning heads for its attention to faster payments, but the Fed has recently announced yet another initiative in the payments innovation space. Last week, the Fed’s Secure Payments Task Force called for comment from industry stakeholders about what challenges they face when it comes to payments security.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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