Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
IDology: Fighting The (Good) Fraud Fight
March 07, 2017

Making sure you are who you say you are is the central tenet in transactions, online and off. But in an age where identities have disparate digital attributes, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff from the synthetic persona on the other end...

Fraud Prevention
FTC Study Finds Online Businesses Not Doing Enough To Prevent Phishing
March 06, 2017

A study released by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Office of Technology Research and Investigation has found that most major online businesses don’t have enough cybersecurity and are not doing enough to prevent consumers from phishing attacks. Phishing is an email scam where cyber criminals send a...

Fraud Prevention
Pelican Has New AI Technology To Fight Fraud
February 02, 2017

Pelican, a global provider of payments and compliance solutions for banks and corporates, is using the latest in technology to protect its clients from wire transfer fraud through its new Pelican Secure Fraud Prevention solution. Finextra reported on the announcement, which detailed how the company...

Fraud Prevention
Retail Enabler: CardinalCommerce Protects SMBs From Holiday Fraud
November 16, 2016

‘Tis the season … to be very, very wary of phishing and other types of fraud. Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to increase year over year — while some project online holiday sales at $98 billion, new estimates from the National Retail Foundation...

Fraud Prevention
Fighting Online Fraud Through eDNA
October 04, 2016

Long ago, a cartoon ran in The New Yorker, showing a canine seated at a desktop computer. “On the internet,” ran the caption, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” The same premise holds true today and poses a knotty question in online commerce and FinTech: How...

Fraud Prevention
MTA Puts Wells Fargo Business On Hold
September 28, 2016

More troubles for Wells Fargo as New York’s Metropolitan Authority has put on hold any business concerning bond transactions and underwritings. Wells Fargo had been initially cleared before it was fined by the CFPB for allegedly creating unauthorized bank and credit card accounts.

Fraud Prevention
PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Fraudsters Capitalizing On Digital Space
August 30, 2016

Fraudsters are winning the cybersecurity war, and are increasingly targeting digital goods transactions, which show a three-fold increase in attacks over the four quarters ending March 2016. Food and beverage transactions are another popular target; this sector shows a 116 percent increase during the same...

Fraud Prevention
Electronics Retailer Seeing (And Fighting) Increasing Number Of Fraud Attacks
April 20, 2016

Everyone said that fraud would move online in the U.S. post-EMV—and we now have proof that it has. A new report by PYMNTS and Forter shows that the rate of online fraud attacks has jumped by 11 percent since October, and by 215 percent since...

Fraud Prevention
Online Fraud Attack Rates Soar Since October
April 19, 2016

Everyone said that fraud would move online in the U.S. post-EMV—and we now have proof that it has. A new report by PYMNTS and Forter shows that the rate of online fraud attacks has jumped by 11 percent since October, and by 215 percent since...