PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the inaugural QR Code Payments Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of QR codes, including new implementations at retailers and payment providers, the security concerns facing this payment method, and the pandemic’s effect on the development and rollout of QR code-enabled payment options. Retail Environment.

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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

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud. For more on these and other digital fraud news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This growth is a double-edged sword for merchants, as they need to keep up with consumers’ shifting payment expectations online and in-store while protecting their data against increasing numbers of fraud attacks. Shifting Payment Behaviors And Fraud .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The rising trend of digitization in commerce and the increased occurrence of card-not-present fraud were not created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it would be more accurate to note that those macro trend lines were both already on the move quite notably, and then the coronavirus came along and rapidly intensified the situation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The risk of fraud continues to climb for organizations of all sizes as the latest data reveals third-quarter spikes in business email compromise and ransomware scams. Plus, the latest allegations of fraud hit the PPE supply chain, and the U.S. Plus, the latest allegations of fraud hit the PPE supply chain, and the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The rate of contact center fraud has skyrocketed recently, growing by 350 percent during the past four years. However, call centers need to implement these security measures in a way that doesn’t introduce frictions into the customer experience. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In this week's news, we saw two blockbuster IPOs, arguments and stalemates over a new stimulus bill, and new data on consumers' digital shopping trends. to advance secure, contactless transactions as stores reopen amid COVID-19 restrictions. Retail Will Play Major Role In Vaccine Distribution. million in consumer losses.

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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

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For retailers, the holiday season is both a busy and profitable time, but it’s also when cybercriminals seize the opportunity and target those increased retail revenues. Around The Security And Authentication Space . Fraudsters are using this data to pull off card-not-present (CNP) fraud schemes, such as account takeovers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

People in general are more aware of — and concerned about — fraud as we pass through a second season of COVID, and eCommerce continues to rack up impressive stats, good and bad. What we always look for is … trends and patterns. Businesses Taking Action As Consumers Fret Over Fraud. New Threats Evolving ‘All The Time’.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Banks’ security efforts depend on analyzing consumers’ transaction histories to gain firm understandings of their normal behaviors, enabling financial institutions (FIs) to spot unusual activities that could suggest fraudsters are involved. Defending Agains Fraud During Periods Of Reopening .

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What’s clear is that fraud decisioning solutions have never been more necessary, as cybercrime enters a new phase of sophistication, diabolical creativity and global scale. Bottom line: Fraud losses are expected to hit $48 billion annually by 2023 – more than double the 2018 losses. Sealing It.

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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. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Developments From The World Of Digital Fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

And the price for a richer consumer experience online and via mobile — one of the defining trends of payments and commerce in 2019, and probably well into the 2020s — is that the code that creates those experiences often leave opening for fraudsters to exploit. It’s fairly new,” Dhawan said of this particular fraud and hacking threat.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Such a scam promises to play a big role in retail’s fourth quarter, said Yinglian Xie, CEO and co-founder of DataVisor. In a new PYMNTS discussion, she and Karen Webster spoke about online fraud trends for the 2019 holiday season — and the prospect that the 2019 winter holidays will see the worst levels of online fraud ever. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Merchants, card issuers and banks are no strangers to facing off against evolving fraud threats. Debit-related fraud is a particular concern for businesses and banks as failing to thwart such schemes could have significant and costly consequences. retailers have digital oversights that leave them vulnerable to attacks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Presented by Afterpay and featuring an interview with Daniel Demsky , co-founder of travel clothing retailer Unbound Merino , this report detailed the way installment payment plans’ popularity have surged during the pandemic, and research correctly suggested it would become only more popular during the holiday season. Buy Now, Pay Later.

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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. How Grocery Retail Will Evolve In 2020 . Priceline Uses AI To Help Fight Fraud. PNC Blocks Venmo, Tells Users To Switch To Zelle.

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FICO

JUNE 14, 2022

Fraud Trends for 2022: Top 5 Includes "Scamdemic" and Bad Bots. FICO's annual conference exposed some of the biggest fraud trends today, from the "scamdemic" to bot attacks. Five fraud trends for 2022 kept cropping up and seemed to be of the most interest to our anti-fraud delegates.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. All said that clearing up the jargon and guesswork — while pinpointing real fraud — can go a long way toward improving digital commerce itself.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Consumers appear to be moving their debit payments away from brick-and-mortar stores toward eCommerce channels, meaning FIs and card issuers must work to support them while minimizing online security risks. These organizations need to fend off anything threatening, combatting both popular and emerging debit fraud attack methods.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

in the early 2000s had much of the hoped-for effect: By 2017, both Mastercard and Visa had reported that counterfeit fraud was more than halved. The heightened risk to merchants and issuers is being keenly felt – someone pays when cybercrooks succeed, and it’s often the retailer. The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S.

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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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Payments Source

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The vast majority of card fraud in post-EMV Australia affects digital payments, a trend that has prompted government action, expedited security projects, and financial pressure on banks from retailers.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The June Next-Gen Debit Tracker ® digs into these and other trends in how consumers are using debit. How FIs Adapt Fraud Detection During Times of Behavioral Upheaval. He also detailed how they are having to adjust again as business reopenings introduce new fraud threats and further changes what normal customer activity looks like.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The pandemic drastically altered consumers’ shopping habits and retailers’ strategies for getting customers the items they needed during the 2020 holiday season. Experts predicted that online commerce over the holidays would increase 35 percent from the previous year, while brick-and-mortar retail sales were expected to decline by 4.7

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

You might also like this webinar, "The check's in the mail: Understanding and preventing check fraud." Many financial institutions have been using artificial intelligence (AI) for years, particularly in supporting cybersecurity and anti-fraud efforts. How banks and credit unions use genAI today Short supporting copy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

PYMNTS’ latest research report, Online Security And The Debit-Credit Divide , a PYMNTS collaboration with Elan based on a survey of 2,466 U.S. consumers have shifted to digital shopping channels to purchase retail products, a fourfold increase since the start of the pandemic. The report finds that 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fraudsters have redoubled their attacks on eCommerce channels, however, making consumers more concerned about data security. Shoppers may be reluctant to hand over their card details to every online retailer, as each transaction represents another risk that consumers’ information could be exposed in a breach.

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