Amex to sell fraud prevention firm Accertify
Payments Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
The card issuer is selling the business, which offers online fraud monitoring services to merchants, to the joint venture investment firm Accel-KKR.
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Payments Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
The card issuer is selling the business, which offers online fraud monitoring services to merchants, to the joint venture investment firm Accel-KKR.
Abrigo
JANUARY 24, 2024
Prevent fraud when adopting FedNow Credit unions can prevent fraud as they connect to FedNow. Use this guide to understand available tools and the steps AML and fraud teams should take. You might also like this FedNow implementation guide with details on appropriate AML/CFT and fraud considerations.
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Abrigo
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Internet bank fraud is here to stay; learn how to detect and stop it. Every type of fraud has something unique it leverages to dupe unsuspecting citizens. Learn what is different about internet bank fraud. Takeaway 1 It is important to monitor fraud effectively and consistently.
Abrigo
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Measuring the cost of fraud losses. The true cost of fraud goes beyond the initial reported fraud losses Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Takeaway 1 Fraud scams made worse by the pandemic continue to be successful, while crypto-scams are emerging. That equates to $35 billion annually.
Abrigo
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
How financial institutions can prevent losses from 1st-party fraud Learn strong approaches to identifying, preventing, and detecting 1st-party fraud that will keep your AML program on top of fraud trends. Takeaway 3 Prevention and detection best practices can curb hard dollar 1st-party fraud losses while protecting clients.
Payments Dive
MAY 5, 2020
COVID-19 has let to millions of consumers transitioning to online e-commerce purchases as retail stores have been forced to close or shift to delivery and pickup. At the same time, consumers and merchants are increasingly exposed to a new level of fraud as bad actors are finding new methods and targets to take advantage of the online shift.
Payments Dive
JANUARY 12, 2021
Is your company assessing online fraud with a deterministic approach or a probabilistic approach? Beth Shulkin, VP of Global Marketing at Ekata shares her view on the best way to assess fraud risk in the payments landscape today.
Payments Source
MARCH 9, 2021
David Heun, associate editor of PaymentsSource, talks to Sara Hafner, head of financial partnerships at Forter, about how the growth of online shopping has raised the stakes for fraud prevention.
Abrigo
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Ideas for educating and promoting cybersecurity in October Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an opportunity for banks and credit unions to promote online safety and take steps to reduce cyber risks. You might also like this whitepaper: "Protecting banking customers starts with you." But how did Cybersecurity Awareness Month start?
Abrigo
JULY 10, 2023
Stay up-to-date on AI fraud trends to protect your clientele Emerging AI fraud schemes reveal holes in financial institution's defenses. Takeaway 2 Improving security questions is a good step to take to avoid text-to-speech AI fraud schemes. Here are several suggestions for tightening security.
Abrigo
JULY 13, 2023
Avoid fraud losses from pig butchering scams FinCrime professionals looking to prevent pig butchering scams in the age of cryptocurrency can follow these steps to tighten security. Takeaway 1 Investment fraud schemes known as pig butchering scams contributed to $3.3 billion in fraud losses in 2022. billion in 2021.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 2, 2020
At a time when COVID-19 has seen global eCommerce and digital traffic grow by nearly 70 percent, security experts have braced for a commensurate surge in online fraud as the holiday shopping season continues. Fraudsters now have more avenues for attack available to them,” Rusi said. The key to this is user experience,” he said.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 11, 2021
To that end, late last week Equifax said it had reached a deal to acquire fraud prevention and digital ID firm Kount for $640 million. As reported, the deal will enable Equifax to boost its global presence in digital ID and fraud prevention, including through the Kount Identity Trust Global Network. In a Monday (Jan. In a Monday (Jan.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 22, 2020
s struggles toward universal adoption in the European Union is reminiscent of EMV chip cards’ rise — a similar journey that aimed to solve a different fraud problem. will ultimately make it over the finish line because, bumps aside, it’s effective and reduces digital sales fraud. They’re in a better position to mitigate the fraud.
Abrigo
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Combating Cyber-Enabled Fraud Requires Communication Increases in cybercrime or cyber-enabled fraud deserve attention from financial institutions, as Abrigo expert Terri Luttrell explains in this video. . You might also like this whitepaper, "The 2021 BSA/AML and Fraud Staff Survey: Top Issues for FinCrime Fighters".
Abrigo
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Use the fraud triangle to prevent fraud at your institution The concept of the fraud triangle is frequently used in business, accounting, and criminology. Takeaway 1 The fraud triangle concept describes three factors that, when combined, incentivize a person to commit fraud. The FTC received fraud reports from 2.4
Abrigo
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Fraud trends for financial institutions to watch for in 2023 Financial institutions should not expect a slowdown of any of 2022’s fraud trends. Takeaway 2 A worsening economy increases pressure to commit fraud, provides opportunities to commit fraud, and can be used as an excuse by criminals to rationalize their actions.
Abrigo
JULY 25, 2023
How offering FedNow instant payments affects fraud & AML/CFT compliance What financial crime staff can do to prepare fraud and AML functions for implementing the FedNow Service for instant payments. Would you like other articles on fraud and AML/CFT compliance in your inbox? Instant payments service What is FedNow?
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
In the company’s ongoing efforts to prevent fraud on its site, Amazon announced a new program, Intellectual Property Accelerator, last month to help sellers make sure their products won’t be copied or counterfeited. According to a new LexisNexis study , overall retail fraud attempts doubled year-over-year and tripled since 2017.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
ProfitStars , the Jack Henry & Associates division that provides risk management solutions for financial institutions, announced its latest fraud tool on Wednesday (Sept. According to ProfitStars, more than 2,500 community and regional banks offer online bill payment to their retail and small business clients through iPay Solutions.
PYMNTS
JULY 25, 2017
Stemming from AI, machine learning is helping technology move at a swifter rate, and as more people bring their shopping needs into the online world, it’s likely that machine learning will play a larger role moving forward. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4
PYMNTS
JANUARY 4, 2019
Stepping into this world is vital for anyone serious about preparing a proper defense against online fraudsters in 2019. The 2018 holiday season has barely ended and it’s a good bet that retailers and payments players have yet to identify all the fraud that took place. More specifically, it can identify patterns that signal fraud.
The Paypers
JANUARY 5, 2023
UAE-based National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) has launched an online fraud prevention solution to improve its operations’ cybersecurity and protect customers against fraud.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
While fraud affects less than 1 percent of all card purchases, consumers who do lose funds from their bank accounts must go through lengthy and often stressful processes to get their money back. Safeguarding debit card payments is increasingly important, with more consumers shopping online during the pandemic. About The Tracker.
Payments Source
OCTOBER 18, 2020
Online fraud typically spikes when holiday shopping begins in November, but so-called friendly fraud poses another big threat this year with the pandemic pushing more consumers — and inexperienced merchants — to online sales channels.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 19, 2018
At the least, it won’t get any better — not according to any anti-fraud expert who is worth their rate. Every business must decide its comfort level with fraud and how much risk to take on, a concept discussed in depth during a new PYMNTS digital discussion, featuring Karen Webster and Kevin Trilli, chief product officer at Onfido.
Abrigo
JANUARY 14, 2021
How Institutions Can Avoid Fraud Surprises in the Next Round of the PPP BSA and fraud professionals saw a spike in PPP fraud during the first two rounds of funding. How can they be better prepared to prevent fraud in this next round? Stopping PPP Fraud in New Round of Funding. PPP Fraud Spikes.
Abrigo
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Growing Cyber Fraud Concerns What can financial institutions do to prevent and detect cyber fraud? You might also like this blog on cyber fraud. Takeaway 1 Cyber fraud increased during the pandemic, leaving financial institutions working harder to prevent and detect it. Preventing Cyber Fraud.
PYMNTS
JUNE 19, 2018
Fraud has no choice but to roll with the punches, and the flurries are enough to daze a boxer as skilled as Ali. Fraudulent activity is 81 percent more likely to occur online than at the physical point of sale. By now, it’s widely known that chip-enabled cards have been pushing fraud to digital conduits.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 3, 2020
When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it’s not a matter of if it happens, but when. Speaking with Karen Webster in a recent interview , OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson explained that organizations have to prepare themselves to mitigate the fraud threat, even as employees work from home. ” $4.13 ” $4.13
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Nacha is issuing a warning to accounts payable professionals with regards to the rising threat of fraud. Further, Nacha said, the survey revealed AP professionals are facing increasing fraud attempts that target AP processes specifically. But accounts payable is far from the only back-office financial workflow at risk of fraud.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. Unlike the crypto markets, Wingert said the banking and payments industries continue to be slow to adapt to the challenges of KYC and fraud prevention. In fact, a recent GeoGuard survey found that U.S.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 5, 2020
losses from COVID-19 fraud and ID theft have reached nearly $100 million since the pandemic emerged in March, according to Reuters. These states accounted for one third of more than 150,000 instances of COVID-related fraud reported nationally by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since mid-March. million to date, according to the FTC.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 5, 2020
While video streaming services remain popular, research indicates more consumers are also turning to online gaming and gambling platforms. The Tracker also examines how both fraudsters and online gaming platforms are employing new emerging technologies to muscle bad actors out of these services. Skillz Takes Offline Bowling Online.
PYMNTS
JULY 15, 2020
Mari Anne Bayliss , senior director of solution management at CyberSource , told Karen Webster that simply relying on machine learning as a weapon against fraud is not enough — not in an age where managing fraud risk during the great digital shift (and unprecedented transaction volumes) is so challenging. .
PYMNTS
JANUARY 13, 2021
Experts predicted that up to $190 billion would be spent online this year, a 35.8 The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Phishing scams were on the rise all year, while a survey of online shoppers found that 40.3
PYMNTS
MARCH 14, 2020
With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. Conservative estimates put online sales at $630 billion this year. According to online security company Signal Sciences , eCommerce retailers deal with an average of 206,000 web attacks per month.
PYMNTS
APRIL 9, 2020
But it also has to be easy, fast and friction-free — now more than ever as a mass of consumers are moving their shopping, dining, working and leisure time online in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The battlegrounds for preventing fraud, he noted, are shifting — which means firms need to be able to shift with and ahead of the fraudsters.
SWBC's LenderHub
APRIL 30, 2020
As consumer demand for more online banking services grows, fraudsters are finding more and more ways to exploit these services.
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).
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Consumers are still shopping online more than ever seven months into the global COVID-19 pandemic. One recent study found that new customer accounts now represent 30 percent of all transactions made online, for example, five times as many as they did prior to the crisis. Shifting Payment Behaviors And Fraud .
PYMNTS
JUNE 12, 2019
Online universities have become common as more students seek convenient, flexible ways to earn degrees. Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit online university based in Salt Lake City, was founded in 1997 by 19 governors of western U.S. states to create a skilled workforce. states to create a skilled workforce.
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