Watch more: Visa Protect With Visa’s Michele Herron Check fraud has gained prominence as a measurable source of losses for financial institutions, businesses and consumers. Even as digital payment adoption accelerates, paper continues to circulate through the U.S. banking system at extraordinary scale, preserving structural...
Corporate payments company Corpay has introduced a solution for U.S. immigration law firms. The new USCIS Navigator tool, announced Monday (Nov. 24) is aimed at providing secure processing for payments to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), following a recent ban on check payments...
Banks say they fear fraud on real-time payment rails. The numbers say they shouldn’t. The August 2025 report, “Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments Fraud,” published by PYMNTS Intelligence and The Clearing House, gives rise to a striking contradiction: financial institutions are disproportionately worried about...
Regulators and lawmakers are taking a fresh look at payments fraud, and as a result, federal action may be brought to bear on the growing challenge of check fraud. On Monday (June 16), a trio of regulators, including the Federal Reserve, the Office of the...
September 03, 2026
Banks often don’t see a fraud scheme until money has left the account, and then it’s too late. A stolen check, compromised card or banking credential may already have circulated among criminals, giving fraud teams little time to intervene. As payments move faster and fraudsters gain tools that make it easier to exploit stolen information, […]
August 29, 2025
Banks say they fear fraud on real-time payment rails. The numbers say they shouldn’t. The August 2025 report, “Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments Fraud,” published by PYMNTS Intelligence and...
February 04, 2025
It’s 2025, and yet many of America’s businesses are still stuck in the past, stubbornly clinging to paper checks. The problem with doing payments the same way they’ve done since the...
December 20, 2024
The circle of trust and the issues around risk management explored in PYMNTS’ recent “What’s Next in Payments” articles are often heavy on future technology. They may bring to mind...
November 24, 2025
Corporate payments company Corpay has introduced a solution for U.S. immigration law firms. The new USCIS Navigator tool, announced Monday (Nov. 24) is aimed at providing secure processing for payments to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), following a recent ban on check payments for immigration filings. “We created USCIS Navigator in direct response […]
December 11, 2024
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued Spanish translations of two resources focused on mail theft-related check fraud. The resources include FinCEN’s February 2023 alert to financial institutions highlighting...
November 19, 2024
Banks, credit unions and brokerages are reportedly racing to keep up with a surge in check fraud as tips for committing the crime are being shared on social media platforms....
July 23, 2024
Financial crime prevention firm Featurespace has launched a partnership with fraud detection software maker OrboGraph. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (July 23), is aimed at protecting financial services companies from check...
