The U.S. payments industry does not lack fraud data. It lacks agreement about what that data means. The Accredited Standards Committee X9’s new Payment Fraud Forum, which holds its first meeting Sept. 10, is targeting exactly that problem. The initiative brings together participants including Federal...
Watch more: Need to Know With Quantifind’s Ari Tuchman An atomic physicist goes looking for the molecule that can reveal a buried land mine before someone steps on it. Years later, he is helping banks find the fraudster hiding inside a chain of legitimate-looking people,...
Watch more: Visa Wants Fraudsters to Pick Another Business As payments move deeper into the artificial intelligence economy, fraud is evolving alongside it, adopting the same technologies that power faster, more seamless commerce. James Mirfin, SVP, Head of Risk and Security Intelligence Solutions at Visa, said...
Card issuing platform Marqeta has debuted a tool designed to combat increasingly sophisticated payments fraud. The company on Tuesday (March 31) announced an enhancement to its real-time decisioning (RTD) offering with “an AI-powered risk score that analyzes transaction risk levels at the point of the authorization decision.” According to...
October 22, 2026
Artificial intelligence is changing both sides of payments fraud. Fraudsters can use it to make impersonation attempts more convincing, while finance teams can use it to score transactions, verify documents and identify anomalies. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud,” produced in collaboration with Bottomline, surveyed 150 U.S. treasury and finance […]
August 26, 2026
The U.S. payments industry does not lack fraud data. It lacks agreement about what that data means. The Accredited Standards Committee X9’s new Payment Fraud Forum, which holds its first...
August 05, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Quantifind’s Ari Tuchman An atomic physicist goes looking for the molecule that can reveal a buried land mine before someone steps on it. Years...
September 03, 2025
The appeal of instant payments is undeniable. Businesses want faster disbursements, consumers value speed and convenience, and government agencies are turning to real-time rails to modernize payouts. Yet despite this...
March 31, 2026
Card issuing platform Marqeta has debuted a tool designed to combat increasingly sophisticated payments fraud. The company on Tuesday (March 31) announced an enhancement to its real-time decisioning (RTD) offering with “an AI-powered risk score that analyzes transaction risk levels at the point of the authorization decision.” According to a news release, the new capabilities help Marqeta customers make […]
June 25, 2025
Worldline’s shares plunged Wednesday (June 25) as media reports alleged the company concealed customer fraud. The French payments firm responded by saying it had for the last two years bolstered its merchant risk...
June 22, 2025
Financial crime prevention firm NetGuardians has merged with transaction data analytics provider Intix. The merger, announced in a news release Thursday (June 19), combines the two companies into a new...
May 27, 2025
Apple says its App Store prevented more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year. This is part of a larger anti-fraud effort that has blocked more than $9 billion...
