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 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...
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 Skyfire’s know your agent (KYA) protocol data to enhance decisioning on agentic purchases, the companies...
Brooklyn’s district attorney’s office says it has disrupted a multinational cryptocurrency fraud operation targeting Russians in the U.S. The investigation by the office’s Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) and the FBI culminated in the seizure of 241 web domains and 112 servers, which revealed the millions...
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. The company is launching with $4.6 million in funding and an AI platform designed to execute compliance tasks while keeping humans responsible for consequential decisions. […]
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...
September 28, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Operation Shamrock’s Erin West The morning before she spoke with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, Erin West took a call from a man in Arizona...
September 22, 2026
Before a merchant can accept card payments, a processor or acquiring bank must decide whether to take on the business and its payment risk. Two September Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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 […]
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”...
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...
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...
