PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

It is well known that shoppers tend to behave differently online than they do in brick-and-mortar stores — and this extends to how they choose to pay at checkout. One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards.

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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. Getting security right also means balancing customers’ security and privacy concerns. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

The European Union’s long-anticipated 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), which modernizes security rules to reflect the needs and threats facing today’s economy, took effect in mid-January, and its impacts are already being felt across the payments space. Fiat-focused digital wallets must also boost their security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

In today’s digital payments ecosystem, businesses, banks and consumers alike want access to their money as fast as possible. While person-to-person (P2P) payment solutions and real-time payment platforms are making the quick exchange of funds possible, fraudsters also see an opening to exploit these systems’ vulnerabilities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

The company recently announced that the software company Netcetera implemented the authentication system for Bank-Verlag, a company that makes and provides secure services for Germany’s banks. The authentication solution lets consumers approve eCommerce payments by using their mobile bank apps.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eateries are turning to online and mobile ordering as well as delivery to stay afloat, with online order volume from food chains spiking by 225 percent since the pandemic began. These growing revenue streams carry their own risks, however, not the least of which is their propensity to be targeted by fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences.

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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.

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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

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act. Security challenges are mounting, too.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Payment and commerce fraudsters are becoming terrifyingly sophisticated. They are able to use cutting-edge technology, black-market websites and top-level, nimble and well-secured global networks to work their craft. At the least, it won’t get any better — not according to any anti-fraud expert who is worth their rate.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Building a secure customer journey is always a bit of a balancing act. It has to be secure first and foremost, particularly when payments data is on the line. The battlegrounds for preventing fraud, he noted, are shifting — which means firms need to be able to shift with and ahead of the fraudsters.

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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. 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. Complex Compliance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Real-time payments, real-time risk. As consumers embrace real-time transactions, financial institutions (FIs) must recalibrate their fraud-fighting strategies. The real-time movement of money,” he told PYMNTS, “has implications on your ability to manage losses — and you have to make sure you are keeping pace with new fraud trends.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

During the childhood of many millennials, the online world was in its infancy stages. With a decent amount of this age group remembering a time without internet access, it’s likely this may have contributed to their cautious nature when it comes to online identity and payment security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. Payment trends are expected to continue to tilt toward eCommerce through the remainder of 2020 as well, with some experts predicting that more than 2.1

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

’Tis the season for corporate fraud? The holidays are unfortunately one of the busiest times of the year for fraudsters looking to capitalize on the surge of shopping and payments activity. Unfortunately, this time of year fails to bring relief for businesses that fall victim to corporate and B2B payments fraud, too.

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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 .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Most online merchants rely solely on SSL/TLS to encrypt the data being sent from their websites. This leaves payment data vulnerable while inside the web page before it is transmitted.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Recent reports indicate an uptick in fraudsters targeting large FIs, and headlines surrounding security breaches and cyberattacks fill the news on a near-daily basis. Visa and Mastercard designed the 3DS protocols and provide them under the names Verified by Visa and Mastercard Secure Code. The evolution of payment protection.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s get a few things straight, a couple of points that might go against what every payments and commerce professional knows, but which will be important for the rest of the story. Stepping into this world is vital for anyone serious about preparing a proper defense against online fraudsters in 2019. Second, friction is good.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But George Connors , senior vice president of gaming and sports solutions at Fiserv , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that other things have remained the same — like online gaming. market as regulatory restrictions were lifted from online gambling in recent years. The user experience has to be good,” he said. “If

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Apps with a possible security flaw, a malware phishing scheme and possibly, payments fraud, all done in the blink of an eye? Security firm Symantec said this past week that it found a security flaw in Android apps for WhatsApp and Telegram, which can allow hackers to manipulate data that flows between users.

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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

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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). He said banks and payment processors already have this technology on hand – they’re just not using it correctly. . If you beat the geolocation fraud, you beat all the fraud,” Briggs said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Grocery stores and other retailers looking to process SNAP EBT payments online just got another tech option as the pandemic reshapes shopping habits. 20) announced that its payment gateway integration for eCommerce platforms now supports SNAP EBT payments made online. Cardknox on Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A new Mastercard initiative aims to improve online transaction clarity so that customers can know exactly who they purchased from, according to a press release Tuesday (Sept. By enriching transaction details, merchants can alleviate friendly fraud, reduce chargebacks and improve the customer experience.”.

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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. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. Online U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Retailers focused on combating fraud have credit cards in the cross-hairs of their efforts. But ramping up the war on card fraud can introduce a new risk to companies: false positives. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. The False Positive Threat.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The pilot leverages Keyno’s CVVkey technology that uses a dynamic card verification value 2 (CVV2) code to provide a higher level of security against fraud for online and mobile payments.

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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.

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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.

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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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