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Wallet wars: How digital payments are reshaping finance

The Payments Association

Technological advancements, including NFC, QR codes, and biometric authentication, have made digital wallets more user-friendly and secure. Adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and biometric verification to reduce fraud risks. Regulatory challenges Regulators are in a race against time.

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Deep Dive: How FIs Can Upgrade Authentication Measures To Foil Fraudsters? Open Banking Attacks

PYMNTS

percent between 2019 and 2026, hitting $43.2 Tightening Authentication. FIs must use highly secure methods to authenticate customers’ identities and make it difficult for cybercriminals that manage to steal customer information to pass themselves off as legitimate customers. percent “less likely to be compromised.”.

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Investec: What FIs Must Know About Open Banking And Gaining Consumer Trust

PYMNTS

Digital fraud and cybercrime are constant worries for financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes, with these businesses seeing an average of 30 cyberattacks per hour in 2019 for a total annual cost of $1.45 million such attacks aimed at APIs between December 2017 and November 2019. trillion in stolen funds. About the Tracker.

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Deep Dive: Reducing The Security Risks Of Open Banking

PYMNTS

It has been steadily gaining popularity in recent years, with more than 10,000 financial institutions (FIs) around the world practicing open banking and 87 percent of the world’s nations having open banking protocols in place as of 2019. billion such attacks between December 2017 and November 2019, 16.55 There were 85.42

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Zelle: The Role Of AI In Stopping COVID-Related P2P Payment Scams

PYMNTS

A financial fraud attack against FIs or businesses occurred every two minutes on average in 2019, resulting in 59,627 attacks in total. million pounds (about $483 million) during the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2019, blocking 853 million pounds (about $1.1 trillion a year. billion) in attacks.

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FinCEN Files Show Banks’ ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Battle Against KYC/AML

PYMNTS

As Standard Chartered noted to BuzzFeed in the wake of the FinCEN files report: "In 2019 we monitored more than 1.2 Drill down a bit, and as noted by PYMNTS, the efforts to track and catch the bad guys is akin to playing a game of whack-a-mole.

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Deep Dive: How Biometrics Help Telecommunication Companies Fight Onboarding Challenges, SIM Swap Fraud

PYMNTS

This overwhelming reliance on smartphones has generated record profits for major telecommunications companies, including AT&T , Sprint and Verizon , with the industry generating $610 billion in revenue in 2019. Telecommunications companies face a number of challenges in their day-to-day operations, however.