More than 40% of financial institutions (FIs) report seeing increasing volumes of fraud and financial crimes, according to PYMNTS Intelligence data. Faced with this onslaught of illicit activities, it’s little wonder that FIs are now deploying newer technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning...
While digital identities incorporate various data points such as name, email and physical address, phone numbers are swiftly emerging as the predominant means of identification. Data from digital identity platform iconectiv underscores this trend, revealing that mobile phones serve as the primary identifier for roughly 3 billion...
Accounts payable (AP) automation company Basware has launched a new fraud/error protection solution. AP Protect, announced Monday (April 22), is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool that helps finance teams guard against fraud, profit loss and invoice errors. “In 2023, Basware identified 10,800 incorrect payments made by companies...
Despite the prevalence of digital alternatives, checks continue to be a preferred payment method for many organizations. PYMNTS Intelligence research underscores this trend, revealing that checks constitute a significant portion of business-to-business (B2B) transactions across various industries. In real estate, nearly 21% of B2B transactions...
Fraud and risk platform DataVisor says it has launched a partnership with identity verification provider Mitek. The collaboration gives financial institutions (FIs) a single-platform check fraud protection service, the companies said in a Tuesday (April 9) news release. “Our vision has always been to create an end-to-end, comprehensive platform...
When you read about collaboration in the financial services industry the topic usually centers around banks and FinTechs. But maybe there’s more to that story. Because sometimes competitors can collaborate and when the topic turns to ID fraud, a team effort among banks just might...
For as long as hard-earned money has existed, criminals have been trying to take it. And as money itself has evolved across an increasingly digital landscape, bad actors have followed suit with their own, increasingly sophisticated tactics — making safeguarding against payments fraud an ever-more...
For online merchants, winning the high-stakes battle against fraud and cybersecurity breaches is critical to survival. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that 82% of U.S. eCommerce players with cross-border sales faced security-related challenges in the last year. These issues also negatively impact other aspects of business, enhancing...
Edge cloud platform Fastly has launched a tool to help companies combat bot attacks. Fastly Bot Management is designed to help clients prevent fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, account takeovers and other online abuse, according to a Tuesday (April 2) news release. “Every day, bad...
