While it’s inevitable that fraudsters will continue to hone and change their methods, businesses must continually monitor the factors that affect fraud — from changing consumer behaviors to major economic trends — and the actions they can take to safeguard against them.

Decentralizing staff makes strong internal controls even more important, Josh Cyphers and Derek Halpern of Nvoicepay write.

As more people create false identities to open card accounts, Visa has launched a new scoring system that takes advantage of the card brand's scale.

The bank says fraud attempts involving commercial wire transfers have escalated since the outbreak began. It's training employees and customers how to head off the often hard-to-detect scams.

Through employee education and deploying tools that allow you to rapidly thwart threats internally and externally, you can reduce the risk of payments fraud and gain greater peace of mind, says Fleetcor's Scott duFour.

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.

Peoples Bank in Arkansas and Main Street Bank in Massachusetts are getting smarter about spotting suspicious transactions tied to unemployment benefit fraud as well as warning customers what to watch out for.

AI is not merely a play to cut costs or replace human capital, says Silent Eight's Jim Logan.

Identity fraud holds no prisoners when it comes to payments. If a fraudster gets hold of a consumer's credentials, everything from mobile wallets, to a checking account, savings account or P2P account is in jeopardy of takeover.

Anita Gail Moody, who was president of Enloe State Bank, admitted to creating phony loan documents — and setting a fire to destroy them — before the bank was shuttered in May 2019.

Financial institutions and prepaid card providers have played an unwitting role in scams that have stolen billions of dollars from state unemployment insurance programs, whose payouts soared after coronavirus shut down the economy.

Banks and prepaid card providers have played an unwitting role in scams that have stolen billions of dollars from state unemployment insurance programs, whose payouts soared after coronavirus shut down the economy.

An open, extensible platform is crucial to quickly discover and prevent automated attacks, and also to be able to immediately import these findings to their existing security infrastructure for log analysis and reporting, says Cequence Security's Matt Keil.

Digital fraud protection provider Kount will be offering real-time fraud screening using adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning to help Barclaycard’s business clients prepare for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements, which are part of Europe’s PSD2 directive.

By targeting the API rather than scripting a form fill, bad actors are leveraging the same efficiency and flexibility that APIs provide developers, says Cequence Security's Matt Keil.

The security method offers real-time authentication checks to combat phony chargebacks, says PAAY CEO Yitz Mendlowitz.

Merchants should also monitor fraud by channel, to see how much each channel contributes to total fraud losses, Bernardo Lustosa of ClearSales says.

Relationships with third party suppliers and regulators have never been more important, says says Genpact's Manish Chopra.

The JPMorgan CEO says the recovery has to start first, and future buybacks won’t be as big as before; Texas Capital Bancshares and Independent Bank blame the coronanvirus market impact.

New authentication methods make it harder to fake biometrics, Eric Setterberg of Fingerprints argues.