South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Most banks ignore instant payments or are still worried about fraud and research. The irony is that of the estimated $25 trillion in B2B payments in the U.S., 33% are still made via check that contains more than $8B of fraud per year. Check fraud is up some 84% and is only going to go up.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

As local- and state-level government entities continue to run, it’s not business as usual for the public sector — particularly in the way these entities make and receive payments. It’s been a boon for ACH payments, said Jeff Thorness, president of Forte Payment Systems , a CSG company.

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Jack Henry

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Big Picture While real-time payments are driving speed and innovation and consumers are taking advantage of enhanced ease of use, immediate funds transfers, and frictionless experiences – so are fraudsters.

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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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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.

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MARCH 17, 2020

To that end, Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist for FSI in APAC for Red Hat told PYMNTS, FIs — especially incumbent FIs — are facing rapid changes in payments that demand they modernize payments processing, embedding new functionality along the way. The Need For Standardization In Cross-Border Payment Processing.

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JUNE 23, 2020

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments.

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APRIL 30, 2020

This week’s examination of the latest in payments rails innovation finds financial service providers innovating on top of existing rails to address the friction of ACH, checks and other bank transfer infrastructure. One FinTech, meanwhile, throws blockchain into the mix of legacy rails.

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JULY 10, 2020

That doesn’t mean these companies have the ability to easily adopt the same payments solutions that businesses in other industries can access. Speaking with PYMNTS, Muller highlighted the opportunity that the cannabis space has to adopt payments and other financial technologies that have leapfrogged over legacy solutions.

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JULY 2, 2020

On the upside, this digital gold rush has created an opportunity for merchants to push about a decade’s worth of digital innovations out the door in weeks. He added that fraudsters have been showing up across the board in terms of fraud types attempted. Sevounts said Kount has also recently noticed an uptick in “card-testing fraud.”

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JULY 31, 2019

However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype. Banks are increasingly focusing on the fundamentals when determining their innovation agendas. Payment technology is in many ways the flagship among the fleet of innovations that banks are pursuing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Cybercriminals are finding it best to approach fraud with an omnichannel strategy , which involves hitting every customer service channel for best results. At the same time, however, online platforms are aiming to protect their users as fraud mounts. 89 percent: Year-over-year increase in loyalty program fraud between 2018 and 2019.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

fraud prevention firm Featurespace announced on Wednesday (Feb. Founded in 2016 by Denise Koskinen and Monika Liikamaa, Enfuce offers payment and open banking services to more than 8 million banks, FinTechs, financial operators, and merchants. . Noting the worldwide cost of fraud is estimated at £3.89 trillion ($5.13

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

KPMG is rolling out a new payments security solution targeting B2B payments fraud, the company said Thursday (Nov. A press release said KPMG is collaborating with cybersecurity provider nsKnox to roll out its KPMG Secure Payments tool, distributed and serviced by KPMG Israel.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Electronic Payments Association NACHA has named the first five APIs, chosen from a list of 16, that it will be developing in its efforts to further advancements in payments and digital finance.

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MARCH 2, 2020

FinTech innovation has opened the floodgates for a stream of new platforms and products designed to help small businesses and corporates more efficiently manage money and make payments. Bridging the Payments Divide. Payments, and more specifically, initiating a transaction, can be a bit more difficult to accomplish.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Founder and CEO of fintech startup SnapCheck Ken Kruszka has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018. Bank Innovation 2018 will take place March 5-6 in San Francisco. Based in San Francisco, Calif.,

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. With innovation comes new challenges.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

But with innovation comes risk — and anything that consumers use will always attract fraudsters looking to steal a cut of the action. . I think fraud will go up as awareness goes up,” he said. But clawbacks don’t exist in the world of instant payments. Consumers love the opportunity to get paid instantly when they can.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming, non-payment/non-delivery, extortion and personal data breaches were among the favored attack patterns last year. As for the areas where scammers managed the biggest hits, business email compromise (BEC), confidence/romance fraud and spoofing were the top three types of crime in terms of monetary losses.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Noncash payments fraud in the U.S. outpaced growth in noncash payments overall between 2012 and 2015, according to a Federal Reserve Payments Study released this week. The study’s survey of depository institutions found noncash payments fraud increased 37%, from $6.1 billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion, in 2015.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The need for innovation springs from many sources. It might come from the need to solve issues like waste fraud and abuse in the byzantine world of healthcare payments. Or it could take the form of a black swan event like the Wuhan Coronavirus – and the global scramble to innovate around a very unexpected disruption.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Challengers to traditional banking, payment, and loan products have all launched this year, and FIs are fighting fraud, hacks, and scams with an increasing number of biometric security measures. 2017 has been a […].

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Those new avenues of fraud have leveraged hallmarks of the current pandemic — fears over public health and concerns about stimulus checks issued by the government — to snare unwitting victims. . . According to some estimates, as many as 22 percent of Americans have been impacted by COVID-related fraud. . .

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JANUARY 25, 2021

This increased digital engagement can create challenges, however, as it opens up new avenues for fraud in addition to making transactions more convenient for customers. A Lloyds Bank study found that this type of fraud has increased fivefold over the past year, accounting for up to 1 percent of all loan applications.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Fraud targeting digital banking users has been around as long as digital banking itself, but it has recently become more prevalent. The pandemic is exacerbating the problem, with a study finding that 22 percent of Americans were the targets of pandemic-related fraud attempts as of March. APP fraud is not a new occurrence.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

With digital transactions and eCommerce soaring during the pandemic, the rate of increasingly sophisticated fraud has also risen. It’s great to see the prioritization on innovation with this bill,” Wingert said, calling the AML regulatory changes important. Can you really know your customer if you don’t know their location?”

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JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s an innovator’s job to look at the status quo and disrupt what has always been done in favor of progress. Increasingly, however, payment rail innovators are also introducing ways to bypass traditional banks altogether, with many in favor of distributed ledger technology to move money between businesses and across borders.

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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. New account fraud.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 12, 2023

Next week, FedNow goes live, ushering in the next era of faster payments. FedNow joins The Clearing House, which has offered real-time payments (RTP ® ) for the last five years. Banks are about to win back payment flow from non-banks, and in this article, we break down how this will happen and what it means for your bank.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Whether embracing development and adoption of new payment rails or developing solutions for legacy versions, the latest in payments innovation is all about speed – even for corporate payments. New research reveals that B2B payments are is expected to account for the largest portion of faster payments volume in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. Yet, each of these strategies to modernization is a double-edged sword, exposing a bank — and, thus, its partners and customers — to a new breed of fraud risks. ” Innovation’s Security Downsides.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

In the old days, forged checks were the biggest problems that bank fraud departments had to manage. It is no wonder that fraud prevention is one of the problem areas that FIs hope artificial intelligence (AI) can help resolve. Yet, few FIs leverage this technology in their anti-fraud efforts — only 5.5 What’s more, only 12.5

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JUNE 3, 2019

In fact, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. percent of those focused on data analytics said they also focused on fraud management solutions in the previous three years, compared to only 60.6 For example, 91.7 Meanwhile, 80.6 About the Playbook.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It’s a concern that’s captured broad attention as popular peer-to-peer payments apps like Zelle and Venmo show security vulnerabilities. For many fraud victims, these transactions are irreversible, adding pressure on institutions to develop more robust solutions. Credit bureaus, […].

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Debbie Guerra, executive vice president of merchant payments and payments intelligence solutions at ACI Worldwide , dives into how digital transformation will be key to enabling businesses, individuals and entire economies to recover from the huge challenges presented by the pandemic. Consumers have choice.

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