Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
Experian and NeuroID Team to Fight Fraud Amid Surge in Sophisticated Financial Crime
December 05, 2023

In a bid to tackle the rising threat of fraud, global information services company Experian has partnered with behavioral analytics firm NeuroID to enhance its fraud prevention solutions. The goal of the partnership is to combat identity theft, deter fraud attacks and protect against AI-powered...

Fraud Prevention
Only a Third of eCommerce Merchants Know if Fraud Caused a Failed Payment
November 14, 2023

Online retailers widely implement anti-fraud tools and strategies — but minimizing false declines while effectively screening out potential fraud is easier said than done. Payment service providers (PSPs) can be crucial in helping eCommerce firms find the right approach to these challenges. In fact, 86%...

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Report: ICBC Subsidiary Disconnects From Electronic Settlement Platform Amid Cyberattack
November 10, 2023

The U.S. subsidiary of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) reportedly disconnected itself from an electronic settlement platform for U.S. Treasury securities operated by BNY Mellon after ICBC suffered a ransomware attack, Reuters reported Friday (Nov. 10). In the meantime, BNY Mellon is manually...

Fraud Prevention
Automated Payments Are Crucial First Step in Broader Enterprise Digitization
November 08, 2023

Fraudulent activities can manifest in various forms, including identity theft, payment fraud and cyberattacks. In all those cases, legacy and manual back-end systems provide bad actors with vulnerable — and attractive — attack vectors. After all, fraudsters typically go after the easiest mark they can...

Fraud Prevention
Financial Platform Charlie Debuts Fraud Protection Tools for Older Americans
November 08, 2023

Senior-focused financial platform Charlie has introduced a suite of fraud protection tools for older Americans. The company’s FraudShield offering, announced in a news release Wednesday (Nov. 8), uses data about 62-and-older consumers’ static habits, patterns and preferences to help combat the $28-billion-per-year problem of financial crimes against older...

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Smaller FinTech Issuers Lose Nearly 60% More Revenue to Fraud Than Larger Ones
November 07, 2023

Fraud schemes are evolving alongside technology, becoming more sophisticated and mutating to exploit vulnerabilities within financial institutions. In fact, fraud incidents increased by 13% in the past year, with FinTech companies being the most likely financial entities to report higher fraud losses, according to the...

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CellPoint and Riskified Team to Combat Travel Sector Fraud
November 02, 2023

CellPoint Digital has teamed with Riskified to help battle fraud in the travel sector. The partnership, announced Thursday (Nov. 2), leverages Riskified’s fraud and risk intelligence capabilities and CellPoint’s payment orchestration offering to help airlines and other travel merchants increase transaction approval rates while lowering costs. “The partnership enables both...

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Nearly Half of FIs Tap Deep Learning Systems to Fight Fraud
October 31, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent across various industries, offering a wide range of capabilities. In the payments industry, AI has proven to be a superior tool for fraud detection, helping businesses to enhance security and safeguard their financial transactions.  According to a recent report by...

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Neobanks Challenged by Rising Tide of Push Payments Fraud and Third-Party Scams
October 31, 2023

They have different business models — but often compete for the same customers. And for banks and neobanks, there may be one commonality: The challenge of pushing back against the rising tide of fraud, both here in the U.S. and across the pond in the...