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Fraud: What Is the Contingent Reimbursement Model?

FICO

Until May 2019, the liability for losses from these scams was generally set by the victim’s bank; with no uniform rules, the bank could decide to reimburse the customer or not. Banks have given customers the ability to make real-time, irrevocable payments but have not given them protection if something goes wrong.

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UK Losses to APP Scams Are Surging — What Can Banks Do?

FICO

In 2019, banks’ losses of £456 million nearly equaled the £470 million attributed to card not present (CNP) fraud. Compared to CNP fraud, criminals find APP fraud to be extremely lucrative; the £456 million lost to this fraud type in 2019 was spread across just 122,000 incidents. In contrast, 2.1

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Instant Payments Mean Real-Time Payments Fraud

FICO

In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other countries are on the road to implementing real-time schemes. When this kind of fraud takes advantage of an instant and irrevocable payment mechanism, losses will sky rocket.

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Arrowgrass asks EUR 669 mln from Tradeshift for Basware acquisition

The Paypers

(The Paypers) Arrowgrass Capital Partners has extended a deadline for an irrevocable offer to 28 February 2019 for Tradeshift to acquire Basware for EUR 669 million.

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Fraud Fighters Focusing On Better P2P Security

PYMNTS

Companies charged with protecting people’s data lost ground in 2020, after an abysmal 2019 of breathtaking data breaches. million fewer fraud victims in 2019 than in 2018, for example, but the total cost of these incidents rose by $2.2 This immediacy means that, once initiated, the payments are virtually irrevocable.

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UK Losses to APP Scams Are Surging — What Can Banks Do?

FICO

In 2019, banks’ losses of £456 million nearly equaled the £470 million attributed to card not present (CNP) fraud. Compared to CNP fraud, criminals find APP fraud to be extremely lucrative; the £456 million lost to this fraud type in 2019 was spread across just 122,000 incidents. In contrast, 2.1

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Embracing Accounts Payable Automation: The Paper Vaccine

PYMNTS

Recent events have irrevocably changed the way finance departments operate, bringing to light glaring issues with the current processes. Paper checks — once dominant in all areas of commerce, now extinct for most consumers — have slowly lost ground, slipping to a meager, yet still surprising, 42 percent of all B2B payment types in 2019.