PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Studies showed that many consumers in the United States have begun tapping their debit cards more often for payments, for example, with one report finding that debit use rose about 6 percent year over year. consumers now count themselves as “ debit-centric ” users, a sizable jump over the 33 percent who said the same about credit cards.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 8, 2017

Will giving customers more direct control over their debit cards stop fraud? Barclays customers now have the ability to shut the remote spending (online or mobile) function of their debit card, the bank announced today. Barclays bets the feature will help halt card fraud; about 25% of the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 22, 2018

UK-based fintech Revolut’s newest product is a “disposable” virtual card, a product that was designed with fraud protection in mind, the fintech announced today. The card, which sits inside Revolut’s mobile app, wipes a user’s details and resets them after every payment.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The most popular financial crime blogs in 2023 Check fraud, the SAFER Banking Act, and BSA exam topics were among Abrigo's top blogs on AML/CFT and fraud this year. You might also like this infographic on the true costs of fraud at financial institutions. Here are Abrigo’s 10 top AML and fraud blogs in 2023.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

These mobile controls, however, also offer consumers a powerful tool for dealing with arguably higher stakes: the risk of credit card fraud. As a part of fraud protection efforts, card issuers and financial institutions (FIs) already flag unusual locations for potentially fraudulent payments. While only 1.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. But so far, mobile B2B payments have been slow to take off.

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Abrigo

MARCH 30, 2023

P2P fraud can be difficult to detect Knowing how criminals avoid detection can help minimize losses at your financial institution. Takeaway 3 Stay informed on various trends and practices to prevent clients and peers from becoming victims of P2P fraud. Instead of using your bank account, consider connecting a credit card to your app.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Mobile ordering apps are largely responsible for keeping the industry above water, but fraud still plagues the sector. And while promising news regarding COVID-19 vaccines may have put the end of the pandemic in sight, the restaurant industry’s growing fraud concerns will not cease as abruptly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

For instance, Mendlowitz noted that Mastercard said on its recent earnings call that more than 50 percent of April transactions were card not present (CNP) or contactless — a 40 percent increase from the year earlier. Fraud prevention should never be a problem that the merchants have to worry about.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. And once a top of wallet is set, the card becomes invisible and changes very infrequently.”.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Mobile card apps went from nifty to necessary when the darkest imaginings of last March had people picturing COVID-19 on every surface, suspended in every breath. Consumers are interested in applying mobile card management tools in different ways, however,” the report states. Meet the 2021 Cardholder.

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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. Those dynamics have made the dangers of fraud far less abstract to consumers. Fraud, he said, is occurring at an unprecedented rate and scale and it was far from a small issue before.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

adults to possess a credit card , so the warp-speed adoption of mobile card apps has been a comparative blur. In surveying mobile card app usage for the December 2019 Bridging the Gap: Mobile Card App Adoption Report , PYMNTS found a vibrant, growing payments ecosystem. percent use them once daily.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Fraudsters have grown adept at finding debit cards’ weak points, and merchants are struggling to keep up. Losses due to false credit and debit card declines — in which merchants reject legitimate orders on the mistaken belief that they are fraudulent — grew to $118 billion last year and are projected to reach $443 billion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

QSRs that offer mobile order-ahead options as well as convenient online ordering methods are expanding their sales significantly through these digital channels during the pandemic. It also analyzes how focusing on the customer experience can help prevent such fraud in the first place. How Friendly Fraud Develops.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

False positives are the bane of fraud fighters everywhere, as they penalize legitimate customers due to the behavior of bad actors illicitly armed with credentials, card numbers and accounts. Sixty-two percent of QSR customers are concerned about fraud when interacting with QSR apps, according to a recent study.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

Convincing consumers to designate precious space on their mobile phones to download yet another app can be a tough sell these days. Interest in mobile card apps is especially high among two key groups: those who primarily use debit cards for purchases and those who primarily use credit cards while carrying balances every month.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. More merch ants are enabling mobile wallet payments, as well. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) in mobile food ordering: tantalizing. AI is not only being adopted to improve workflows and grow revenues, but has also been enlisted in the fight against fraud.”. The surge of digital orders carried a toxic tide of fraud, and many companies turned to supervised machine learning to deal with it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bad actors have moved to take advantage of the rush to digital payments — particularly those made with debit cards — leaving banks and financial institutions (FIs) racing to keep them off their platforms. We have seen higher levels of fraud or suspicious activity, [and] we have definitely built up our fraud prevention team. …

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Another involves heightened fraud vectors swimming like sharks around digital-first first-timers. The July 2020 Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® done in collaboration with Kount shows that online orders are positively booming, but not all of that activity is good. Loyalty and fraud know each other, by the way. Defending Trust.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

They can also let consumers know something arguably more important: when a purchase posts to their credit cards or cards they share with partners or dependents. In other words, these instant alerts can offer a valuable real-time defense against fraud. For example, 24.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

In the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of QSR rewards programs and how credential stuffing and account takeovers are plaguing the industry. Rewards and loyalty programs also make attractive targets for fraud. Importantly, the restaurant doesn’t store any card data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2020

Telecom giant T-Mobile suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of employees and customers to unknown hackers, according to reports. “We The company didn’t reveal how many people were affected, but it said financial information like credit cards and Social Security numbers were not affected. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Onboarding these customers can be a tedious challenge prone to fraud and consumer frustrations, and the industry faces the ever-looming threat of SIM swap fraud. Customers still face potential fraud threats once they are signed up, with SIM swap fraud being a particularly common foe.

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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. The Face of Fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Payments provider Elan Financial Services announced that along with Ondot Systems , the leading provider of mobile-based card services, they have enhanced the My Mobile Money app so that it now offers two-way fraud alerts for Elan processed debit cards.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag. Why the disconnect?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

For financial institutions (FIs) and merchants, the opportunity is there to harness technology and mobile card services to drive sales up, drive fraud down and cement long-lasting relationships with consumers. With such an option in place, he said, the consumer effectively becomes part of the FI’s fraud team.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Consumers know that, for most payment types, they aren’t going to be liable for the fraud if it happens, so it isn’t acting as a major inhibitor or influence on their thinking,” Stuppy said. Customers like mobile order-ahead, but only when the quick-service restaurants (QSRs) in question have optimized it for their use.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Mobile card services could be the Swiss Army knife of card management for consumers, because of the capabilities they can make easily accessible to the customer or business using them. There is a focus on the ability to turn cards off and off — I think even going back a few years we’ve seen that in banks’ advertising.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This includes upgrading digital security measures, but the resurgence of brick-and-mortar commerce has required upgraded technologies to accept contactless payments and mobile wallets. These wallets are connected to familiar debit or credit cards, the details of which must also be kept safe from enterprising fraudsters.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I am always glad to see headlines like this one, which ran last summer in The New York Times: “ How to Reduce Credit Card Fraud.” Every Transaction Is Assessed for Fraud. FICO’s patented and proven fraud analytic capabilities have helped organizations save $90 billion+ per year. Steps Ahead of Financial Criminals.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Idaho-based Kount has released a new product aimed at preventing insurance fraud as the industry increasingly turns to digital, and even mobile, setups. Kount’s fraud protection platform increases profitability and reduces fraudulent claims with digital identity verification and advanced artificial intelligence.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

To that end, said Matt Good , senior vice president and general manager of Elan Advisory Services , the shift to contactless payments is well underway — and the stage is being set for mobile wallets to gain a much wider embrace. Merchants, he said, “need to make sure they not only accept credit cards but also contactless payments.”.

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