Fraud Prevention news and trends

Scams Gain 10 Percentage Points in Share of Fraud Dollars

October 27, 2026
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Who’s Responsible When AI Agents Go Rogue?
Cybersecurity // October 26, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With ClawSecure’s JD Salbego Warning: This story will go fairly deep into the details of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic security. And another warning: You need to go there. Here’s why. An employee doesn’t have to approve a fraudulent...

Booking.com Anti-Fraud Practices Face Scrutiny in Europe
Fraud Prevention // October 21, 2026

European regulators are investigating whether Booking.com has done enough to prevent scams on its platform. The European Commission (EC) announced Wednesday (Oct. 21) that it had opened a formal inquiry into whether the travel platform had violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not having...

Visa Says New Tools to Protect Virtual Commercial Card Payments From Fraud
B2B Payments // October 21, 2026

Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed to bring “trust and control” to business payments, Visa said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) news release. “Businesses are moving quickly...

TransUnion Debuts New Scoring Capability to Combat Fraud
Identity theft // October 20, 2026

TransUnion has introduced new solutions designed to help organizations combat synthetic identity fraud and credit washing. The company says its Credit Washing and Synthetic Fraud Scores, announced Tuesday (Oct. 20), are the first-ever “adverse-actionable” solutions of their kind in the market, meaning lenders can make credit decisions and...

Interviews & Exclusives
Scams Gain 10 Percentage Points in Share of Fraud Dollars

October 27, 2026
Banks have an opportunity to strengthen fraud protection by helping customers recognize when someone is persuading them to send money to a criminal. That’s a central finding of “Scams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud,” the September 2026 edition of PYMNTS Intelligence’s “The Fraud Economy.” Based on a July survey of 90 executives […]

Who’s Responsible When AI Agents Go Rogue?

October 26, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With ClawSecure’s JD Salbego Warning: This story will go fairly deep into the details of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic security. And another warning:...

Leela CEO Says AI Can Give FinTechs a 10-Person Compliance Team

October 12, 2026
Compliance remains labor-intensive for financial institutions, which must satisfy multiple regulators and meet extensive documentation requirements. Leela is built to perform much of that work rather than simply provide information....

AI Agents Bring Shoppers, but Merchants Must Close the Sale

October 06, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what...

Quick Reads
Booking.com Anti-Fraud Practices Face Scrutiny in Europe

October 21, 2026
European regulators are investigating whether Booking.com has done enough to prevent scams on its platform. The European Commission (EC) announced Wednesday (Oct. 21) that it had opened a formal inquiry into whether the travel platform had violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not having “diligently assessed or effectively mitigated” threats related to fraudulent listings […]

Visa Says New Tools to Protect Virtual Commercial Card Payments From Fraud

October 21, 2026
Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed to bring “trust and control”...

TransUnion Debuts New Scoring Capability to Combat Fraud

October 20, 2026
TransUnion has introduced new solutions designed to help organizations combat synthetic identity fraud and credit washing. The company says its Credit Washing and Synthetic Fraud Scores, announced Tuesday (Oct. 20), are the first-ever...

Skyfire and Forter Team to Strengthen Agentic Commerce Decisioning

October 19, 2026
Skyfire, a financial stack for agentic commerce, has announced a partnership with fraud prevention company Forter. The integration expands on Forter’s fraud management for agentic commerce capabilities, which now uses...