Fraud prevention

Podium is offering chargeback-fraud screening for local businesses taking in-person, offline purchases that use its customer messaging platform and accompanying Podium Payments service.

In a major break from the Payment Card Industry security standards playbook, merchants and service providers using newer technologies would have the opportunity to rewrite network operation and testing procedures when achieving compliance.

Refinitiv, a global risk intelligence firm, has agreed to buy Giact, a company founded by a brother-and-sister team in Allen, Texas, in 2004 to enhance payment fraud protection and identity verification for banks and corporations.

Mastercard has rolled out a set of AI-powered tools to thwart fraud and data breaches across banks' ecosystems, particularly to benefit acquirers’ online merchants.

Fraudsters have increased their attempts to steal data through email scams since much of the financial services sector moved to remote work when the pandemic began.

The inability for an e-commerce merchant to know about a fraud problem at another merchant checkout page can limit transaction monitoring and security.

Executives and technology analysts offered a host of concerns that are likely to dog credit unions well into the new year.

For the past several years, the concept of sharing transaction data between merchants, processors and issuers has been considered a good security measure to curb fraud. But someone has to compile and compare that data in such a way to not only stop fraud, but assure legitimate transactions are not declined.

The U.K.’s six major banking groups are now required to have implemented the new Confirmation of Payee (CoP) scheme for Faster Payments and Chaps as part of a regulatory push to tackle the rampant rise in Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud.

Tia Ilori, Senior Director of global fraud and breach investigations at Visa, joins us to talk with Michael Moeser, PaymentsSource's senior analyst, about the new attacks and fraud trends that have emerged since the start of the pandemic.

In response to fraudsters seeking to capitalize on the COVID-19 influenced surge in e-commerce, Ekata has launched a new global digital ID verification tool to combat cybercrime.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some examples of technology available now to help combat money launderers profiting from the pandemic.

Getting rid of passwords is easier in concept than practice, with hundreds of initiatives designed to build something more digital, flexible and transportable. But none have taken hold, causing one developer to try an approach that rejects most of the prevailing methods.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some examples of technology available now to help combat money launderers profiting from the pandemic.

Tokenization and buy buttons began, in part, as ways to calm the security concerns of online shoppers who were wary of moving away from plastic. They’re now becoming a way to keep a health and economic crisis from turning into a security problem as in-store checkout quickly gives way to apps and websites.

The U.K.’s growing panic about the spread of coronavirus has created an open season for fraudsters, with government agencies and cybersecurity companies reporting unprecedented levels of criminal activity since the virus began sweeping across the globe in January.

As coronavirus forces most shopping to occur online, merchants will likely see their product return policies tested by both good customers and the unsavory ones who abuse those policies for profit.

Digital fraud protection provider Kount has launched a security layer designed to prevent account takeover.

Artificial intelligence has given merchants and banks handling payment data a fighting chance against fraud because it essentially pits machine against machine in compiling data and establishing prevention algorithms.

Fraud prevention provider Kount is strengthening its artificial intelligence-powered Identity Trust Global Network with software for determining how long email addresses have been in use.