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Location Detection: Building The Bank Business Case For Better Geolocation Data

PYMNTS

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.

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Today In Payments: Adevinta To Buy eBay’s Classifieds Unit; Panel To Review UK’s FinTech Sector 

PYMNTS

In a deal expected to create the world’s largest online classifieds company, eBay Inc. has agreed to sell its ad division to Adevinta ASA, the Norwegian online marketplace, for $9.2 Ant Group, the online payments division arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., New Report: Mercado Pago On How Mobile Bridges The LatAm Banking Gap.

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Fighting Fraud In The New Normal

PYMNTS

The advent of COVID-19 , Fiserv ’s Vice President of Risk Analytics and Strategy Kannan Srinivasan and Vice President of Fraud and Financial Crimes Management Gasan Awad told PYMNTS, didn’t introduce these things – but it did create a perfect storm of factors that is now pushing these fraudsters into overdrive. Powering A Fast Pivot.

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Real-Time Payments: What’s Ahead, and How to Fight Fraud

FICO

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.

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ACH Fraud Is Rising - And New NACHA Measure Leaves Gaps

FICO

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.

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Fraud Protection for P2P Payments at Point of Sale

FICO

It’s pretty easy to use Venmo in-store; after signing up for this feature on the app, you just scan your Venmo QR (Quick Response) code , displayed on the mobile app, at checkout to pay touch-free. These might include favorite grocery stores, drugstores, restaurants and fast food outlets, and preferred stores for online shopping.

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As PSD2 Gets Off the Ground, Fraudsters Gear Up

PYMNTS

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.