Fintech News

MAY 22, 2024

of respondents lost money to scams or identity theft in the past year, resulting in an estimated US$1 trillion in financial losses. In May, Fintech Global released its inaugural FinCrimeTech50 list, recognizing the world’s leading technology companies fighting money laundering, fraud and financial crime.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 17, 2024

Empowering businesses NeuroID’s behavioural analytics solutions are available through CrossCore on the Experian Ascend Technology Platform as a key fraud-detection capability. Experian’s identity verification and fraud prevention solutions helped clients avoid an estimated $15billion in fraud losses globally last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Fraudsters can also carefully hoard a cache of stolen bank account data, credit and debit card information, Social Security numbers and other details to impersonate legitimate customers, using these details outright or cobbling them together to perpetrate identity theft, new account fraud and gain entry to other platforms.

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Fi911

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It is often referred to as “anti-spoofing” or “liveness verification.” As traditional safeguards like passwords and two-factor authentication fall short, liveness detection adds a crucial, real-time layer to identity verification. Simply put, it is a means to verify biometric signals provided by an individual.

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Finovate

APRIL 11, 2024

Fraud and risk platform DataVisor announced a partnership with identity verification company Mitek this week. DataVisor will integrate Mitek’s Check Fraud Defender solution into its platform to offer FIs real-time check fraud decision orchestration. Today, 99% of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The federal agency said it shut down websites where consumers could buy “fake financial and other documents – such as pay stubs, income tax forms, and medical statements – which can be used to facilitate identity theft, tax fraud, and other crimes,” according to an FTC statement. Simmons was ordered to pay $15,000.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

The country’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs is considering regulations to curb the problem and bring these marketplaces in line with other eCommerce businesses, which currently follow a different set of fraud prevention regulations. is facing fraud problems as well. How DocuSign Ices Out Phishing Attacks.

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Core

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By implementing secure technologies, stringent verification processes, and advanced monitoring, government teams can foster a secure financial framework that benefits both citizens and municipalities alike. The digitization of public financial systems introduces new challenges for online payment fraud prevention.

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Finovate

AUGUST 14, 2024

Digital identity verification innovator Socure has unveiled its Selfie Reverification solution. Built on the company’s Document Verification (DocV) solution, Selfie Reverification also detects signs of deepfaking, and readily identifies age discrepancies between the photo and the credential.

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Clearly Payments

JULY 16, 2024

Fraud Rate by Industry in 2023 Credit card fraud is a pervasive issue impacting various industries, each with unique vulnerabilities and estimated fraud rates. Rank Industry Fraud Rate Most Common Fraud Type 1 Travel and Hospitality 3.2% Rank Industry Fraud Rate Most Common Fraud Type 1 Travel and Hospitality 3.2%

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

IDnow , the identity verification platform provider, has revealed that there is a massive gap in UK consumer knowledge when it comes to key tactics used by fraudsters. They need to go further in terms of fraud prevention technology to meet their customers’ risk appetite, especially when their money is at stake.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

The bad actors then cut off all contact with the bank, preventing it from recouping its losses. First-party fraud seems difficult to perpetrate because loan applications typically require identity verification with Social Security numbers, which enable banks to track down loan applicants who go off the grid.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Banks, businesses and others still have numerous fraud problems to address, from text-based scams and phishing to synthetic identity theft. The best approach is therefore to use several technologies and apply multiple verification strategies to ensure that fraudsters do not slip through the cracks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Between synthetic ID fraud and good old-fashioned identity theft, buttressed by the reams of available consumer data, said Xie, cybercriminals have gotten better at looking like real consumers – making it all the more imperative for the security industry to realign its paradigm with the lifecycle habits of legitimate users.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Trade finance and supply chain digitalization company Tradeshift has partnered with fraud protection solutions firm SiS to ward against this, developing a solution that uses blockchain technology for more robust identity verification. A Multi-Layered Fraud Approach Critical To Consumer Data Protection.

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Seon

JULY 10, 2024

These may include various types of fraud, such as identity theft, account takeover, payment fraud and application fraud. Fraud transaction monitoring’s scope is narrow. For fraud prevention, these systems detect unusual patterns or suspicious activities indicative of fraudulent transactions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

B2B merchants must quickly determine remote potential buyers are who they say, a process typically achieved through data collection and identity verification solutions. The internet provides bad actors with plenty of opportunities, meaning companies’ verification methods must be robust. Detecting Fraudsters.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In these roles, Bob was a true fraud practitioner, responsible for leading high-performance teams across strategic and operational roles and policies and working closely with his peers in Risk, Compliance, Security, and LOB functions across the business to protect the bank, its clients, and its employees.

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Fraud.net

JANUARY 19, 2024

Learn the best BNPL risk management challenges, fraud prevention strategies, real-time monitoring, advanced solutions and more.

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Fraud.net

MARCH 29, 2024

Discover advanced fraud detection systems used by banks and explore the solutions offered by Fraud.net for proactive fraud prevention.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

An artificial neural network is good at pattern recognition, computer vision and speech or text processing, but the system lacks transparency, making it a no-go for financial institutions that are looking to detect fraud. For fraud prevention, an AI with linear pattern recognition is more useful.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It’s been said that fraudsters are always evolving, and always looking for the path of least resistance in their efforts to steal identities and credentials to remain anonymous and … keep stealing. No surprise, then, that identity theft is on the rise. Those victims are kids — in some cases, even infants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Even as they try to simplify the process, she told Webster, banks must establish multiple layers of protection, chiefly through identity verification. Mastercard’s NuData uses a series of direct identity challenges and biometrics to establish that the party on the other side of the transaction is who they say they are.

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Stax

APRIL 30, 2024

Payment processors are responsible for communicating the details among various entities, whereas payment gateways deal with verification and approval. In addition, there are other costs like statement fees, merchant account fees, and verification fees. It is often confused with the payment processor, but there’s a slight difference.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Identity theft is out there, in eCommerce and beyond, and GDPR throws light on another avenue for fraud. The other solutions that are likely to gain traction include document verification, where, say, an individual takes a selfie and it is matched up with a driver’s license photo.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some key types of risks that merchants should be mindful of in payment processing: Fraud Risk: Fraud risk involves unauthorized or deceptive activities aimed at exploiting the payment system for financial gain. This can include stolen credit card information, identity theft, or fraudulent transactions.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Real-time payment systems such as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) have been a prime target for fraud as transaction volume on the platform grows at a breakneck pace. This shows that good fraud protection can be a bank’s biggest competitive advantage rather than just an overhead.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

One common attack method — known as bust-out fraud — involves fraudsters tricking banks into letting them open accounts and establishing reputable credit histories until they qualify for sizable loans. Researchers dubbed synthetic ID fraud the “fastest-growing form of identity theft” in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Retailers and merchants are losing more than $3 for every dollar of fraud incurred as recently as 2014, and that number was up from $2.79 At 71 percent, as estimated by one secure payments processing firm, identity theft is the most common type of fraud. In terms of tempting targets for fraud, eCommerce stands out.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Businesses need a fraud prevention solution set that can evolve and change as fast as — if not faster — than the fraudsters. Taking that and combining it with real-time fraud alerts will take the authentication game to an entirely new level — and help stop fraudsters before they can do real harm.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

“We are investing heavily in fraud detection systems that [use] machine learning and artificial intelligence to differentiate between normal patterns of customer behavior and potentially fraudulent ones,” Siddiqui said of the retailer’s approach to identity theft and other types of fraud.

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Nanonets

MAY 31, 2023

Common examples of external payment fraud include: Impersonation: Fraudsters pose as legitimate customers or vendors to deceive organizations into making unauthorized payments. million individuals in the United States fell victim to identity theft in 2021. According to the Federal Trade Commission, USA, over 1.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And the data that was stolen, he added, is very much the type that is used when someone is talking on the phone, dialing straight in, so to speak, to identity theft. As for biometrics and real-time ID verification, he said, it’s rather unlikely that hackers are lugging around their own portable iris scanning technology.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The results show that Canadians want slick onboarding processes, where fraud controls work but don’t delay account opening. Processes that Balance Customer Experience and Fraud Protection. Fraud teams fight a constant battle to balance fraud prevention with customer experience.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 19, 2016

Identity network and fraud prevention company Civic offers a service that helps consumers confirm the use of their identity in real time. Today the company beta-launched its free consumer-facing app, marking the public availability of its identity network. Both services are good for the life of their membership.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

Companies need smarter compliance solutions to help them address this wide range of identity verification needs, Caldera said. “It Many fraud prevention technologies focus on conditions of risk on a given transaction without the context of the user behind that transaction, which leads to too many false positives,” Caldera said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Friendly fraud is in many ways even more difficult to identify and combat than clean fraud because friendly fraudsters do not steal legitimate identities for their schemes.

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