As faster and real-time payment schemes achieve ubiquity in more markets around the globe, speed is increasingly becoming the standard for payers of all kinds. This new reality isn’t without its challenges for financial services providers, however, with security and fraud mitigation among the largest...
In FinTech‘s never-ending path to combating friction, B2B solution providers often take one of two approaches: design a holistic solution that allows a company to entirely replace an entire function with a single, streamlined tool, or design a solution that zeroes in on one particular...
Online merchants know very well that fraud costs them in many ways – in chargebacks, in false positives, in the friction that’s introduced at checkout that can cost a sale. But there’s nothing like putting the cost of fraud into the parlance that merchants know...
February 19, 2020
Not so long ago, payments cyber fraud was done primarily by brute force, through guessing passwords and usernames — a scattershot approach akin to trial and error, conducted by lone individuals or small groups. However, that’s changing. In an interview with PYMNTS, Jim Lerdal — executive vice president of operations at PULSE, a Discover Financial Services […]
