FICO

AUGUST 24, 2020

This week’s reveal: prior to March 2020, I had never used the mobile deposit feature of the banking app on my phone. Second, after I figured out how to use mobile deposit the first time, I asked myself, “Why did I ever go to the bank? Mobile deposits are so easy!”. Mobile deposits are so easy!”.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

In the age of the coronavirus, everyone is conducting all facets of daily life – commerce, banking, schooling, working – from home. Mobile transactions have become the latest opportunity for fraudsters,” he said. Mobile transactions have become the latest opportunity for fraudsters,” he said.

Fraud Detection

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

In financial services, in the eternal war to keep customers (and themselves) safe from online fraudsters, banks may lift a mantra from the real estate sector: It’s all about location, location, location. Geolocation services are proving to be a powerful weapon against phishing attempts, account takeovers and other schemes.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Although fraud losses from banks, retailers and online platforms have continued into 2020, so has security innovation. That means protecting both mobile and online purchases as well as finding ways to better identify legitimate customers as fraud becomes more sophisticated.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) are a growing source of pain for financial institutions (FIs) and their customers, with losses from these attacks rising 164 percent in 2018. FIs can struggle to detect such attacks because fraudsters provide the authentication details necessary to access the accounts. Understanding ATOs.

Credential

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Banks are jostling for space in the market because an expanding number of FinTechs and large-scale technology companies are competing for the same set of consumers. Banks must enable fast and seamless onboarding experiences, but these processes should also be secure. Data and Authentication Frustrations.

Security

PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for digital fraud. One of the most insidious forms of fraud is account takeovers (ATOs). Fraudsters cause the banking industry $31 billion in losses annually, a number expected to only increase in the coming years.

AI

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s already been a big year for biometrics, and with everyone from big banks to major retailers investing in the technology, that trend is unlikely to subside any time soon. . The platform is designed to help retailers combat an uptick in online retail fraud, caused largely by ineffective or stolen password credentials.

Account Takeovers

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

lags behind other countries that have already adopted EMV card standards (so far, there are around 80 in total), it is only just beginning to see what those 80 other countries have already realized: As commerce moves online, so does crime. Digital goods and online markets are still in their early days, believe it or not. Since the U.S.

Crime

FICO

JANUARY 11, 2021

Identity-based fraud takes many forms: application fraud , bust-out fraud , account takeover , synthetic identities and identity theft. How can banks deliver unified experiences across multiple channels, with the right amount of friction, to navigate the fine line between fraud reduction and customer experience?

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Increasingly, fraudsters are striking at the very beginning of customers’ relationships with banks and credit unions (CUs), focusing their efforts on account takeovers and new account fraud. There are new data privacy concerns, too.”. Traditional FIs, he said, have been wary of disintermediation by FinTechs.

Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

The result of that effort is the company’s inaugural DataVisor Online Fraud Report, which analyzed more than 1 billion use4 accounts and 50 million malicious accounts to gain insights into what really makes fraudsters today tick. PYMNTS: What was the motivation behind starting the DataVisor Online Fraud report?

Account Takeovers

Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Socure , the leading provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, sanction screening and fraud prevention, and Trustly , a leading global Open Banking payments provider, today announced an industry-first partnership to offer merchants and fintechs a streamlined onboarding and guaranteed Pay by Bank solution.

Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

One of the latest involves hackers successfully accomplishing account takeovers (ATOs) of users of Zelle, the digital payment service. trillion in 2018, and fraudulent mobile app transactions increased 680 percent between 2015 and 2018. The rise of online banking has provided a host of opportunities for fraudsters.

AI

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Online fraud is no small problem for merchants, but a significant number of retailers do not spend enough time on the dual goals of streamlining the consumer data experience while weeding out possible fraudulent transactions. Are they concerned that additional steps in authentication will result in shopping cart abandonment?

Consumer

FICO

MARCH 9, 2022

The last few years have thrown up many challenges for banks and card providers as everything has shifted online, one of the primary challenges being fraud scams. But the online shift has also created opportunities for financial institutions to demonstrate their strong fraud controls in the digital space.

Fraud Prevention

FICO

AUGUST 27, 2020

With the COVID-19 lockdown wiping out many face-to-face interactions, it’s hardly surprising that more of what we do has naturally moved online. For the consumer, online shopping has become the norm, but so too has opening accounts digitally; even if you look at financial accounts where many would say there is a higher risk of loss.

Authentication

FICO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Why consumers are moving to banks with the best fraud and scam prevention. The appeal of these banking innovations has also made it a honeypot for fraud. Scammers are attracted to the increase in money flows and finding new inexperienced consumers to con online. Payments Fraud in Asia Post Pandemic. Saxon Shirley.

Posting

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Today, the most bare bones of information is required to establish identity in the digital economy — usually an email, some other personal identifiers and bank account numbers — and commerce is off and running. As Ritter noted, email accounts are the first avenues of attack for fraudsters.

Economy

Seon

MAY 8, 2024

With new tools like private browsing, VPNs and anti-tracking settings to further complicate the prevention and detection of fraud, bad actors are more adept than ever at concealing their identities and intentions online. What is Device Intelligence?

Online and Mobile Banking

FICO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As customer interactions go completely online, digital identity verification and authentication help — but sophisticated authentication can’t stop all types of fraud. That seismic change continues to create inherent risks that banks must address in complex and creative ways. AND “Why?”. FICO Admin. by Adam Davies.

Assessments

FICO

JULY 28, 2021

This existing screening requirement is being supplemented to make it explicit that “account validation” is part of a “commercially reasonable fraudulent transaction detection system.” The supplemental requirement applies to the first use of an account number or changes to the account number. Multiple Layers of Protection.

NACHA

Seon

JUNE 21, 2023

This includes online storefronts, online banking to manage their funds digitally, and, naturally, digital payment options, including virtual credit cards (VCCs). The nature of virtual credit cards being entirely online and often mobile offers user convenience, but also an entirely new attack surface for fraudsters.

Credit Cards

FICO

AUGUST 26, 2021

It’s a question FICO’s fraud head honcho, TJ Horan, pondered back in 2016 , when the nascent real-time person-to-person (P2P) payments service Zelle was relaunched by a small consortium of banks (see below). In August 2019 The Federal Reserve Board announced that the Federal Reserve banks were developing a real-time payments rail: FedNow.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

As companies settle into a world governed by Europe’s second Payment Services Directive ( PSD2 ), and as financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech companies explore the possibilities of faster payments and unbundled banking , attention to how to secure those activities is increasing. Call Center Threat.

Fraud Prevention

The Fintech Times

MARCH 18, 2024

The fraud prevention industry is experiencing rapid growth in response to amplified regulatory pressure and increasingly sophisticated threats of online fraud. Digital payments, encompassing everything from online shopping and mobile payments to e-commerce, have created a vast new playing field for fraudsters to exploit.

Fraud Prevention

The Fintech Times

MAY 22, 2024

However, in its latest report published today, the UK banking and financial services trade association announced that there was a four per cent decrease in the amount stolen to £1.17billion in 2023. Last year, UK Finance announced that over £1.2billion was stolen through fraud throughout 2022. What has caused unauthorised fraud to drop?

Scams

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Even so, it doesn’t veer too much toward the illusionary and nostalgic to submit the proposition that banking, and other financial services , used to be much more personalized — much more one on one — than is the case now. percent of banks have genuine artificial intelligence systems in place. That’s the promise.

AI

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

I was reminded yesterday in my digital discussion with the CEO of Forter, Michael Reitblat, that 83 percent of the fraud attacks last year were the result of botnets, besting some of the more “tried and true” tactics like account takeovers and phishing. Sizzle Or Fizzle: Wells Fargo Mobile Wallet.

SWIFT

Nanonets

MARCH 30, 2023

The payment process using ACH transfers involves the payee creating a payment order which is received by the originator bank. The originator bank compiles all the POs and sends them to an ACH for processing. The ACH operator then approves and releases the PO amount to the recipient bank.

Automation

FICO

JUNE 4, 2018

Authorized push payment scams manipulate the account holder into making the payment to an account controlled by fraudster—hence the term ‘’. In 2017, the UK market experienced a reported 34,743 unauthorized fraud case attempts from remote banking channels (internet, mobile and phone banking), valued at a total of £417.5

Demand Deposit Account (DDA)

Seon

JULY 10, 2024

These may include various types of fraud, such as identity theft, account takeover, payment fraud and application fraud. Fraud monitoring is a broader term encompassing the overall detection and prevention of fraudulent activities within an organization. Fraud transaction monitoring’s scope is narrow.

Transactions

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

Tuum: Raised $48M for its modular banking technology, gaining traction with banks and financial institutions across Europe. Mahalo Banking: Raised $21M for its banking software; successfully launched new features, experiencing strong growth in client base. QuickFi : Reported a 45% increase in loan volume.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The need for newer, stringent authentication comes as call centers — especially those for banks and other financial services — are getting hit with increasingly sophisticated fraud. Users’ voices, how they hold their phones or type and their fingerprints are all factors call centers are examining for more secure authentication.

MFA

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The numbers are sobering, as always: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that account takeover fraud is on the rise. Research from digital identity and payments executive Cherian Abraham has estimated that Apple Pay fraud rates are roughly 6 percent of transactions at banks, 60 times the fraud rates seen with credit cards.

Security

FICO

MAY 19, 2020

Banks need to ensure that any suspicious activities on their accounts can be confirmed with them quickly and efficiently and that if they do fall victims, that the situation is managed quickly to minimize the impact on their lives. This will result in more cases of account takeover during this time and for months ahead.

Account Takeovers

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

That’s because the indictments allege malfeasance that spans online transactions, banking and the ever-present specter of identity theft. In a nutshell, the baker’s dozen of alleged malefactors bought fake IDs and used information, courtesy of the Dark Web, to open accounts that enabled the business of their bad business to happen.

Identity Theft