PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

As such, it would be logical to utilize machine learning to help tackle one of the largest threats to the eCommerce shopping world – online retail sales fraud. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 Several companies have popped up over the last few years with the specific purpose of combatting online fraud.

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Abrigo

JUNE 12, 2020

Key Takeaways The soon-to-begin Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) aims to fulfill a need for mid-sized businesses to access relief funds amid the coronavirus pandemic. If a business secured a PPP loan, it is still eligible to apply for an MSLP loan; however, MSLP loans are not forgivable. Fraud Prevention. Learn More.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Check fraud prevention is at the forefront for financial institutions Banks and credit unions report that check fraud is impacting their institution more than any other threat. You might also like this upcoming webinar on Homeland Security fraud investigations. Read on for cutting-edge prevention methods.

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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

APRIL 21, 2020

Cybersecurity experts are scrambling to fight the sheer number of different digital fraud forms that are on the rise, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this problem. COVID-19 fraud may be new, but it is just the latest iteration of a problem that has been plaguing businesses and consumers for years.

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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

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. A Big-Picture Approach To Thwarting Debit Fraud.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Should banks and financial institutions (FIs) focus more on giving consumers the convenience and simplicity they expect — and even demand — or instead focus more on implementing stringent security measures, potentially at the expense of user experience? Fraud is on the rise, as 17 million people in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Instead, she noted, an estimated $240 billion is going out the door to fraud, waste and abuse (FWA). We securely store over 18 petabytes of sensitive data — this is a significant amount of data that we’re dealing with every day,” she said. “And And we detect and defeat over 200 attacks on our network every minute of every day.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Companies therefore must either invest in teams of AML specialists or in fraud-fighting technologies. . The September AML/KYC Tracker examines the latest fraud challenges and efforts to ensure tight security and compliance. . How Mobile Financial Startups Can Bridge the Security Gap. Around the AML/KYC Worl d.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The tools we use to detect, score and prevent fraud — particularly card-not-present fraud in digital transactions — have improved exponentially in the last half-decade. As of today, 85 percent to 95 percent of synthetic fraud identities are easily slipping past risk detection systems that are failing to flag them.

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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 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 include running scheduled checks on their platforms to detect fraud. Why Automated Tools Can Add Security To Online, CNP Transactions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

The new Digital Fraud Tracker highlights the latest developments in payments fraud, and how different companies are working to keep funds safe from bad actors as payment solutions grow increasingly faster. Around the World of Digital Fraud. Australia’s CNP fraud problems seem to be part of a broader pattern.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

But those illegal marketplaces — often called the “Dark Web” — also present a juicy opportunity for those fighting fraud to detect and even preempt criminal activities than cost businesses revenue and, often, parts of their brand reputation. Early Warning Value. Enough of the basics. But that goes only so far.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We have deep dives on the financial health of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), digital accounts payable (AP), and GoodRx ’s initial public offering (IPO). . The outlook for a number of Main Street SMBs seems to be getting better, but a cash crunch is still a lingering headwind.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

One day — maybe one that has already happened for some PYMNTS readers — we might look back with fondness and nostalgia on that time when chargebacks stood as the main worry merchants and other organizations faced when it came to fraud and risk. That’s where Kevin Lee comes in. Changing Scope. The stakes could hardly be higher.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in Ghana and Uganda are exploring changes to their remittance rules to keep payments secure.

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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. The research shows that 52.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Cyberattacks on banks have become seemingly inevitable, with banks and financial institutions (FIs) at risk of losing as much as $100 billion to online fraud every year. FIs hoping to win the fight against fraud are increasingly embracing new tools and technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

And the challenges — particularly the security challenges — existed both for the digitally native firms that suddenly found their services in-demand and rapidly scaling, as well as the Main Street SMBs that were forced to make the great digital leap forward. We can give them that,” Cohen said. A New Landscape.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Fraud, on the other hand, paid extremely well, a fact he learned at the age of 13 when he embarked on his first subscription scam. The part where he comes back to work as director of strategic development at We Fight Fraud , a security firm dedicated to helping businesses fend off fraudsters? Less expected.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For all the buzz about the advent of real-time payments, and the various opportunities it can reportedly unlock, the lingering uneasiness is that speed also brings the potential for more fraud. That fear, according to David Barnhardt, EVP of product at fraud prevention firm GIACT , is not unwarranted or unreasonable.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how customer migration to mobile and digital offerings is creating security related challenges for banks big and small — and how financial institutions (FIs) around the space are working to solve them. How Banks Are Weaponizing Data To Fight Fraud. About the Tracker.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2019

The 2018 holiday season has barely ended and it’s a good bet that retailers and payments players have yet to identify all the fraud that took place. The rest of the year will bring other such attacks, and no doubt new attacks barely imagined even by veteran fraud-prevention experts. Criminal Rings. Criminal Patience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

But those gains come with fresh concerns about digital security. Security Vulnerabilities. The main areas of security risk? Those devices are not the microchips from those programs in Wisconsin and Sweden — nor, of course, the chips implanted into pets.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

UK Finance says £754m stolen from bank customers in first half of 2021 as scammers capitalised on Covid Fraud victim scammed for almost £25,000 Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Fraud in the UK has risen to a level where it poses a “national security threat”, according to the main banking body, with £754m stolen from bank (..)

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That said, IoT device creators and consumers are looking at IoT security with a higher level of scrutiny. In the February Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS examines how countries, developers and consumers are responding to increased calls for security, as well as how the IoT market is growing worldwide. Around the IoT World.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Now four months in, he told Webster that the idea of a secure and trusted payments ecosystem is part of Visa’s “corporate DNA.” Regardless of the product or initiative, every conversation starts and ends with a single overriding question: “Is it secure?”. It has motivated a different approach for fighting fraud in the 2020s and beyond.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Consumers have somewhat of a fickle relationship with security when it comes to transactions. Most report that they want security, and they are sincere in their reporting. This isn’t so much of a security gap as a convenience gap. The Three Main Challenges .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a way, the world has entered a new era of fraud (and fraud prevention). He described the current era as “Fraud 3.0.”. basically ran from the birth of Amazon to perhaps 2005 or so, when the verification of online shoppers’ physical addresses was a main feature of digital fraud prevention.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The May FI Fraud Decisioning Playbook examines the issue of omnichannel fraud and the strategies that banks and CUs are using to detect and thwart it. Around The FI Fraud Decisioning World. Cross-channel fraud is a major threat, and FIs need to quickly detect if it is occurring.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

However, beyond being an irritant, he noted, one-off friendly frauds like these aren’t a major risk to a firm’s bottom line. Unfortunately, there is a far more malignant form of offer fraud out there that does pose a much bigger risk. The Dark Side Of Offer Fraud . Beating Back Opportunistic Offer Fraud .

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

In recent weeks, several companies have banded together to develop secure, seamless authentication tools. In other partnership news, financial services firm PayPal recently invested in blockchain security company Cambridge Blockchain. How Citi Taps Biometrics to Enhance ‘Security Perimeter’. Around the Digital Identity World.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Tracker also looks at the security challenges that QSRs are tackling as they work to keep fraudsters away. However, the rise of mobile ordering also comes with growth in account takeover fraud. Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World. The service will roll out to select locations as 2019 progresses.

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