Fraud detection

With scammers steadily improving their techniques, CO-OP Financial Services is starting to offer artificial intelligence to police transactions initiated by online, mobile and other connected devices.

Mastercard has added another layer to its security for the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) with the acquisition of NuData, a Vancouver, Canada-based company whose technology analyzes biometric and behavioral patterns.

As online lenders and their vendors step up monitoring, patterns of fraud are emerging.

Retail-focused Provident Bank has added an on/off switch that allows customers to suspend their debit cards. A few big banks rolled out similar features last year.

Retail-focused Provident Bank has added an on/off switch that allows customers to suspend their debit cards. A few big banks rolled out similar features last year.

Professor Rahul Telang at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College analyzed the behavior of 500,000 bank customers over five years to observe their reactions to adverse events such as fraud on their bank account. It’s a rare objective measure of the effect of fraud on customer retention.

Wells Fargo has fired its consumer credit solutions head and three other senior managers for actions related to a scandal involving employees creating fraudulent customer accounts.

Fraudsters, aware of the scope of the Payment Card Industry data security standards, increasingly deploy fraud methods that fall outside of PCI safety.

Artificial intelligence is moving from science fiction to practical reality fast, and it's in banks' best interest to gear up now for the changes ahead. Here are some strategies to consider.

The jobs of chief investment officer departments and financial advisers are likely to change as banks and stand-alone wealth managers adopt artificial intelligence to inform the advice they give clients.

Banks are grappling with new challenges in trying to work with voice assistants like Alexa in Amazon's Echo to allow customers to check balances and perform other tasks. But with voice banking on the horizon, banks cannot afford to stall their efforts.

The time banks have to investigate red-flagged credit payments has shrunk from several days to a few hours and fraudsters have already taken notice.

Banks have used biometrics for about a decade, but there are a number of hurdles that banks, device makers and customers need to overcome before passwords are history.

Fraud involving third parties and advance fees can be vexing for merchants. But doing lots of homework can mitigate the threat.

At a time when individual accountability at corporations is mounting, here is how compliance officers can detect and prevent fraud occurrences within their own firms.

The decision to rewrite the regulation came two days after a hearing in which New York bankers unleashed a litany of complaints about the regulation to Empire State lawmakers.

As online shopping and card fraud increase, startups offering easy-to-use "burner" cards could see strong traction.

The core-tech vendor Fiserv has agreed to buy Online Banking Solutions in Atlanta.

When BankMobile, the brainchild of Jay Sidhu and his daughter Luvleen, relaunches on a new platform in January, security — especially for the onboarding process — will be completely redesigned.

Behavioral biometrics has already stopped several million dollars worth of online banking fraud at National Westminster Bank in London.