July 06, 2022
Anti-Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering: Two Sides of the Same Coin
The trade group UK Finance recently published its annual fraud report, and the picture isn’t pretty for British consumers. Financial fraud in the country rose by 39% between 2020 and...
July 06, 2022
Department of Commerce Urged to Slow Roll CBDCs and Clarify...
Following President’s Biden Executive Order on crypto assets issued in March, the Department of Commerce (DOC) launched a consultation in May seeking feedback that would help it to develop a...
July 05, 2022
PayPal’s Fraud Chief Says ‘Story-Based’ Analytics Can Fix eCommerce’s Weakest...
The chain of command in eCommerce is made up of links. And those links go something like this: A consumer registers with a merchant, places an order and chooses...
July 04, 2022
PYMNTS Intelligence: Combining Pre-Submit and Post-Submit Data to Stop Digital...
Identity fraud is a growing problem in the United States. Losses due to identity fraud were up 79% year over year in 2021 to a total of $52 billion, while...
July 04, 2022
A Bitcoin Declaration of Financial Independence
On America’s Independence Day, it’s worth looking back at bitcoin’s history, because both origin stories share a basic impulse: freedom from a system that controls our lives without giving us...
July 01, 2022
How Wave Financial Leverages Pre- and Post- Submit Analytics to...
In this month’s "Monetizing Digital Intent Tracker," Angie Dobbs, VP of fraud and risk at Wave Financial, tells PYMNTS how multilayered authentications are proving to be more effective in fighting...
June 30, 2022
Despite Risks, Crypto-Backed Mortgages, Loans Gaining Traction
There’s been talk about people buying real estate with cryptocurrency for some time, but a new report from banking giant Citi finds that crypto-backed mortgages have been gaining ground for...
June 30, 2022
Amazon Rebuts Alexa Eavesdropping ‘Myths’ as It Scales Device Ecosystem
In a year that has seen Amazon blog about its voice-powered Alexa device 28 different times as part of its effort to grow its overall ecosystem of connected devices, the eCommerce...
June 29, 2022
Biometrics Help in Fight Against Fraud, but Are Not the...
“If you’re not on your game and protecting your customers,” Tom Shell, vice president of business development and solutions engineering at DataVisor, told PYMNTS, “the switching cost is just not...
Cryptocurrency exchanges are grappling with the EU’s PSD2 as they look to craft seamless experiences for their global customer bases. In the “Authenticated Payments Report,” a PYMNTS and LoginID collaboration, Marcus Hughes, of crypto exchange Coinbase, explains how platforms must build authentication measures that satisfy consumers and evolving regulations.