Fraud detection

Financial firms can minimize the damage by understanding where key threats lie, educating employees and customers about phishing scams, and breaking down silos between compliance, fraud and security teams.

The card network is connecting its Enhanced Authorization system with products from Accertify, Microsoft and Riskified, providing Amex with more data at the time of the transaction.

The companies are working to thwart abuse on the Honey platform, a deal-finding system that PayPal acquired in 2019.

As both e-commerce and payment fraud accelerate, Sift is strengthening its digital protection platform by acquiring Chargeback, a real-time dispute management provider.

The purchase is one of several moves the payment company has made to improve its identity expertise.

The San Francisco-based technology provider raised $70 million in a Series C round this week, bringing its total funding to $114 million.

Data from Sift and the FBI show how methods scammers adapted during the pandemic.

Transaction fraud and money laundering are typically siloed areas within banks, but both require a keen eye to finding the right patterns.

CMSPI estimates that retailers lost about $30 billion in potential online sales last year from e-commerce transactions that were declined for a variety of reasons including fraud, insufficient funds, technical problems and errors.

Forter has joined the Adobe Exchange Partner program, enabling Magento Commerce merchants to reduce false declines and block fraud attempts.