PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

One recent study estimated that roughly 44 million Americans would tap food delivery apps by the end of this year, up from 38 million in 2019, and another survey predicted that the number of smartphone delivery app users will climb 25.2 It also analyzes how focusing on the customer experience can help prevent such fraud in the first place.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Compliance with investment accounting and reporting requirements plays a central role in ensuring operational efficiency and regulatory adherence. Investment accounting compliance not only minimizes operational risks but also reduces regulatory scrutiny. WATCH Investment accounting compliance risks U.S.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 24, 2024

Prevent fraud when adopting FedNow Credit unions can prevent fraud as they connect to FedNow. Use this guide to understand available tools and the steps AML and fraud teams should take. You might also like this FedNow implementation guide with details on appropriate AML/CFT and fraud considerations.

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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. Today, financial institutions (FIs) face a barrage of cyberattacks from hackers operating around the world, continuously shifting their tactics. Yet, few FIs leverage this technology in their anti-fraud efforts — only 5.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

ATMs are common avenues for fraud, however, especially those that are running outdated software. A study from Portland, Oregon–based hardware security research company Eclypsium found that many ATMs suffered a severe security flaw in their third-party Windows drivers that allowed fraudsters access to the cash dispersal system.

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Abrigo

MAY 20, 2022

Fraud on Alert for 2022 A review of SAR data , government agenc y releases, a nd fraud findings found these f raud c oncerns and trends to wat ch in 2022. Takeaway 1 An Abrigo review of SAR data, government agency releases, and fraud findings revealed fraud trends to watch for. Fraud Concerns. Starting Point.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This revenue free fall could result in 100,000 restaurants nationwide closing either temporarily or permanently, with 40 percent of all restaurant operators unsure whether they can survive six months into the future. The Fraud Threats Of 2020.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Increasing efficiency of compliant AML investigations To boost AML program productivity and keep pace with evolving compliance demands, financial institutions should focus on strategic operational improvements paired with the smart use of technology. What’s a leader to do? Manage risk more effectively. Is a FRAML department better?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Invoice fraud, where emailed requests trick employees of various firms into sending money to scammers’ bank accounts, has been making the rounds in the United Kingdom. firms are vulnerable to that type of fraud. According to research from Santander Business , as much as half of all U.K. Department of Justice.

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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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Abrigo

MAY 12, 2022

Protect your financial institution from cybercrime With cybercrime constantly evolving, what can businesses and financial institutions do to prevent fraud? Cybercrime is a threat to businesses and institutions of all sizes and is at the forefront of the minds of those in the fraud prevention field. These measures can help.

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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

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

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The October Next-Gen Debit Tracker® analyzes how both digital shopping and digital fraud are growing simultaneously, and what merchants can do to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are protected. These include running scheduled checks on their platforms to detect fraud.

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Abrigo

MARCH 4, 2022

Synthetic ID fraud is growing quickly and hurts FIs and customers Knowing the schemes associated with synthetic identity fraud and how criminals avoid detection can help minimize losses. Takeaway 1 Synthetic identity fraud is a growing form of identity theft in which an individual is impersonated by using stolen information.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new year has begun, but the pandemic continues to throw financial and operational curveballs at banks, businesses and their consumers regarding how they conduct daily tasks or routine payments. Another study found that 55 percent of U.S. Another study indicated that debit-related fraud is on the rise across the U.S.

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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. Insult Rate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver – but when platforms focus on reducing friction for users, it can backfire and create new vulnerabilities to fraud. An unexpected consequence of the retailer race to offer same-day and one-day delivery is increased fraud exposure. Nearly one-third (30.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A fact of our new reality that has snapped sharply into focus over the last half year as restaurants of all sizes and descriptions have had to rapidly reset their operations for a world where restaurants were first closed down entirely and, even when they reopened, customers have remained reticent about dining out. Fraudster In Many Forms .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns. I can truly say I stand on the shoulders of giants,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Over 60 percent of banks say fraud volumes are rising, with over 40 percent reporting that average fraud hit value is going up. Under COVID, one study finds that 22 percent of Americans had been targeted by pandemic-related fraud attempts as of April.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

This increased digital presence also brings a greater risk of digital fraud, however. Banks have reported myriad fraud threats over the past year, including various forms of identity fraud and bot activity, and are working overtime to develop countermeasures. The Fraud Threats Facing Digital-First Banks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Studies have shown that more than half of all banks recover less than 25 percent of related losses, and FIs have reported a 59 percent growth in fraud value and a 61 percent increase in fraud volume since 2015. The ongoing pandemic has exacerbated all fraud types from all sources, Gould added. Multistage Fraud Defense.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

In payments fraud, it pays — literally — to change up the game a bit. The report shows the use of malicious emails, rather than attachments, is on the rise — which darkreading.com said comes along with new variants of impersonation fraud. Individual Fraud Cases, Here and Abroad. The data across a sample set of 1.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Fraud is like gluten. Most organizations have resigned themselves to the fact that, despite their defenses, fraud is just a part of doing business. But fraud costs an average of 7.5 But alongside all of that opportunity comes risk of fraud.”. There was an eternal perception about the way to approach fraud,” said Byrnes.

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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. New threats are evolving all the time,” KP Brendel, director of marketplace operations at online thrift and consignment storefront Swap.com, told PYMNTS. “New

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

And the farmer who uses drones to help monitor operations – yet may not be able (or might not know how) to take steps needed to secure his or her server – is rendered vulnerable. The Vulnerabilities of Retail (and Other Sectors). His comments come against a backdrop where the warnings of IoT vulnerability come from other observers.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 16, 2018

A study released today by research firm Aite and Early Warning, owner of the bank-based P2P firm Zelle, found that P2P payments will triple by 2020. The demand for P2P payments does not seem to be slowing anytime soon. In the U.S. alone, Aite projects “over 300% growth from 2015 to 2020—from $100.3 billion to $316.6 billion” […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a new operation, Operation Income Illusion, to crack down on fraudsters targeting victims with fake promises of jobs or income, according to a press release. Fraud during the pandemic has been especially prolific because of the chaos created so quickly early on.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Cybercriminals’ accomplishments come at the expense of targeted businesses, with a recent study finding that individual data breaches cost firms around the globe an average of $3.92 Another recent study found that phishing accounts for 90 percent of all data breaches and that such schemes increased 65 percent over the past year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

percent increase from our previous study conducted in 2018, the AI Innovation Playbook , which showed a usage rate of just 5.5 Even more significantly, our research shows that FIs are using AI with greater focus than they have in the past, with two areas emerging as key applications: payments fraud and credit risk. percent of them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. This establishes identity trust or risk in real time.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Unfortunately, platforms that are designed to be seamless are also often attractive targets for fraud. It’s the users who often become the victims in stringent security measures when fraud detection is too broad. This is why fraud-related costs consume large portions of digital platforms’ budgets—to the tune of 2.2 percent).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Fraud instances have risen dramatically since the pandemic began, placing financial strains on consumers and merchants alike. Department of Justice recently warning consumers to be on the alert for virus-related fraud. It also examines which solutions or strategies merchants can employ to prevent such fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Payments and commerce fraud has its own ecosystem, one that includes criminals, servers and other computing devices, IP addresses, compromised payment cards and stolen personal data, and even houses and other physical locations. The Biology Of Fraud. Fraud prevention is getting more sophisticated, and at a fast clip.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

China’s banking regulator is introducing stricter requirements on banks and insurance institutions that provide supply chain financial solutions in an effort to curb fraud, according to China Daily reports last week. JD.com, Suning.com Spark Concerns. for Finance and Development’s Deputy Director Zeng Gang in an interview with China Daily.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Digital Shadows , the industry leader in digital risk management, revealed its findings on the changing habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs, discovering a new trend in the form of remote learning “schools.”. In just two of the most popular ‘carding’ forums, 1.2

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