As consumers and businesses scramble to contain the fallout from the massive Equifax data breach, the impact will linger among payments security professionals. Is a wholesale reexamination of how companies treat data security in the offing? PYMNTS gathered the thoughts and advice of nine executives,...
Trulioo, the global identification company, announced news on Wednesday (Oct. 4) that it launched its Global Business Verification solution aimed at providing a low-cost way to conduct due diligence on businesses around the world. In a press release, Trulioo said the tool can help verify...
Think the life of a vice president of analytics is all about the numbers? Think again. There’s data, to be sure — reams of it. But in an interview with PYMNTS, Massy Najafi, who serves in that role at Guardian Analytics, shed light on more than...
As phone spoofing begins to infiltrate the consumer retail arena, some firms are fighting back against this new type of fraud. One of them, New York-based Next Caller, just completed a funding round to bolster its abilities. The three-year-old startup brought in $5 million, led by...
Venerable retailer. Iconic name. Easy mark for online fraud and a knockout to the bottom line? Yes, if manual review means missing warning signs of fraudsters while turning away good orders, as boxing equipment vendor Everlast found in its move toward eCommerce. Radial Senior Product...
In today’’s fast-moving, tech-infused retail arena, one of retailers’ top vulnerabilities centers around their ability to data security. As such, it should come as no surprise that most retailers are very protective of any information exchanging virtual hands. While U.S. retail data breaches have dropped...
Prosper Marketplace, the online lender, is reportedly getting rid of its Prosper Daily mobile app, which enabled customers to monitor their personal finances, like credit scores, and would protect them from identity theft. According to a news report in American Banker, citing a blog post penned...
With EMV changing the way payments are made in person, so, too, is the nature of fraud changing. Card not present (CNP) fraud is becoming a favorite avenue pursued by criminals, meaning merchants must do more than just block and tackle — they must also be...
Jumio, the creator of Netverify Trusted Identity as a Service (TIaaS), has announced the addition of eyeball tracking to Netverify’s biometrics capabilities. Eyeball tracking requires users to follow an icon on a mobile device’s screen with their eyes as it moves in a random pattern...
