As merchants and fraud prevention specialists develop new strategies for fighting fraud, organized criminals find new vulnerabilities to exploit, a trend that shows no sign of letting up, says ClearSale's Rafael Lourenco.

Third party and payment attacks are an expanding threat, says says Jscrambler's Rui Ribeiro.

While manual fraud prevention may be manageable at first, as the number of payment types and channels increase, it can rapidly become untenable, says The ai Corporation's Mark Goldspink.

While we expect growing consumer demand for biometrics, we also expect to see payments industry players move toward these types of future-proof technologies and away from legacy password-type systems, says Nuance Communications' Simon Marchand.

While manual fraud prevention may be manageable at first, as the number of payment types and channels increase, it can rapidly become untenable, says The ai Corporation's Mark Goldspink.

Fraudsters have access to vast quantities of personal identifiable information and can look very authentic. Therefore, it is better to diversify and utilize multiple sources of data to help protect your business.

APIs need to be designed with features such as defenses, proper authentication, batching, and throttling in mind, says Shape Security's Jarrod Overson.

Yet that figure is relatively low compared with other digital assets such as bitcoin, according to the fintech Elliptic.

Stephen Calk, who faces a bribery charge in connection with loans his bank made to former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, is asking a judge to suppress evidence that prosecutors obtained from his mobile phone.

It’s only a matter of time before Silicon Valley “overturns more complex banking functions”; banks would have to help FinCEN identify suspicious firearms sales.