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Luxury Retail, Luxury Fraud: How Neiman Marcus Is Battling Fraudsters

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Retailers raked in more than $850 billion during the 2018 holiday season, marking the fastest holiday retail sales growth seen in the past six years. Luxury retailers have been slower to move online than some other retailers, but the impact of online sales in this industry can already be seen.

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Geolocation Puts A Pin In Anti-Fraud Solutions

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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.

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PAAY Rolls Out Partner Platform To Complement EMV 3DS Technology

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PAAY said its EMV 3DS offering lets merchants decrease chargeback costs, bolster authorization rates and maintain compliance as they provide an easy as well as frictionless experience for users. The company reports that retailers selling through eCommerce are experiencing record sales numbers, but fraud rates are also on the uptick.

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Biometrics Changes Tempt eCommerce Companies As Fraud Defense

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As the digital shift continues to keep pace with post-coronavirus shopping behaviors, eCommerce fraud is growing with it. In fact, 22 percent of respondents in a recent TransUnion survey claimed they had “been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19.” The company’s technology tracks user behavior to determine fraud.

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Device ID Helps Fight Holiday Fraud Amid Record Online Shopping

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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. The key to this is user experience,” he said. But he added that the bad guys are using older scams as well. “As

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Many Retailers Aren’t Prepared for PSD2 – But Are Consumers?

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Firms must soon put more stringent fraud decisioning processes in place, and strong customer authentication (SCA) protocols must be built into checkout flows for online transactions that begin in Europe. So, are their grounds for retailers’ fears about potential losses due to SCA? To some degree.

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Retail Sector To Boost Mobile POS Terminal Market Value To More Than $103B By 2023

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The availability of game-changing features, such as enhanced user experience and mobility, will impact positively on mobile POS terminals’ market size. Moreover, merchants are adopting this device to attract more customers, due to simplicity, convenience and flexibility offered by POS terminals while making payments.”.

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