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Eastnets Partners With iPiD to Reinforce Protection Against Financial Fraud

Fintech Finance

“By integrating iPiD’s verification solutions, we empower our clients to comply with critical regulations like the UK’s Confirmation of Payee and SEPA’s Verification of Payee, significantly reducing transaction risks.”

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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

PYMNTS

Account holders who provide authorization do not necessarily know when payees will withdraw the promised funds and may not remember to keep enough money in their accounts to cover the costs. Instant transactions require that money move immediately and irrevocably, and TCH states that supporting push payments only reduces fraud risks.

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Why Slow Payments Aren’t Necessarily Safer Payments

PYMNTS

There’s financial risk, and making sure the payee who ends up in possession of the funds is the intended recipient. So fast that, once the funds are pushed, they are instantly usable to the payee who received them. The payment is irrevocable, and can’t be clawed back. There is no shortage of risks to consider, she noted.

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Survey: Real-time Payments Fraud Up for 4 out of 5 APAC Banks

FICO

This type of social engineering is harder to stop but better KYC, link analysis to find money mule accounts and behavioral analytics to flag new accounts for a regular payee, are all examples of how to tackle it. Real-time Payments Fraud: Time For Convergence.

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Fraud: What Is the Contingent Reimbursement Model?

FICO

Banks have given customers the ability to make real-time, irrevocable payments but have not given them protection if something goes wrong. Those that use transactional analysis, improve customer education or implement confirmation of payee to help prevent it may feel they are subsidising those that don’t.

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What Is Authorised Push Payment Fraud?

FICO

As payments made using real-time payment schemes are irrevocable, the victims cannot reverse a payment once they realise they have been conned. Account takeover where fraudsters initiate push payments to new payees – often across different channels with the goal of outsmarting existing fraud controls. Targeting property transactions.

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How Advanced Technology is Driving Authorized Push Payment Fraud

Seon

Favoring speed and the irrevocability of transactions, real-time payments inadvertently aid the operations of APP fraudsters, who rely on the instantaneous nature to launder their profits, cover their tracks and evade the risk of being traced.