Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
The Data Point: 68% of B2B Firms in Retail, Manufacturing Unsatisfied With Fraud Solution
May 18, 2022

As goes the online marketplace, so goes fraud. Cybercrooks treat online marketplaces like great fishing spots, ceaselessly testing for vulnerabilities — and often finding them — to exploit. Risk and Resilience: A Business Fraud and ID Theft Report, a PYMNTS and TreviPay collaboration, explores the fraud landscape...

Fraud Prevention
The Data Point: 92% of Merchants Using Only Third-Party Tech Keep Chargebacks Under 0.5%
May 17, 2022

Fraud detection is constantly improving, but so are the capabilities of fraud rings and hackers, making choice of fraud detection and dispute resolution technology critically important in 2022. For Dispute-Prevention Solutions: Third-Party Tools Limit Dispute Related Losses, a PYMNTS and Verifi collaboration, PYMNTS surveyed over...

Fraud Prevention
Report: Merchants Overestimate Their Own Dispute-Resolution Skills
May 16, 2022

The online shopping surge of the past two years heightened the risk of credit card fraud and drove many merchants to invest more heavily in anti-fraud measures. Merchants tend to rely on a mix of proprietary and third-party tools to resolve transaction disputes and clamp...

Fraud Prevention
Twitter’s Buyout Pause Shows Platforms Need Robust Verification Tools in Battle vs Bots
May 13, 2022

For the Twitter bid a la Elon Musk, the lesson is: Easy come, easy go. Well, beyond that assessment, of course, lies the reason Musk has put the $44 billion deal on hold. For Twitter — and for other platform firms, too, we note — there...

Fraud Prevention
PYMNTS Intelligence: Why Security Is Key to the Future of IoT-Enabled Devices for Banking and...
May 10, 2022

The shift to remote transactions during the pandemic not only accelerated the adoption of digital banking, but also firmly established the market for data exchange technologies and the devices connected to them, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT). The convergence of money and...

Fraud Prevention
Mission Lane on Preventing Financial Fraud in a Connected Age
May 09, 2022

Although consumers are increasingly using an array of connected devices to conduct financial transactions, they're doing so with the expectation that banks and FIs will keep them secure. In the "Digital Fraud Tracker," Mission Lane’s Gaurishankar Gopalakrishnan shares thoughts on how FIs are using advanced...

Fraud Prevention
How Banks Are Pulling the Plug on Financial Fraud in a Connected Age
May 06, 2022

The pandemic not only accelerated the digital transformation of banking and payments, but it also solidified consumer demand for the Internet of Things (IoT). Consumers exhibit a growing enthusiasm for technologies that can transfer money or pay bills at the touch of a button or...

Fraud Prevention
FRAML Payments Guide: FIs Need to Update Their Crime-Fighting Tactics
April 27, 2022

Hackers and cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated by the day, if not the hour or the minute, but too many financial institutions are holding on to their old way of attempting to deal with risk, an approach that could leave them more vulnerable to attacks,...

Fraud Prevention
Surecomp Debuts Duplicate Financing Fraud Prevention
April 12, 2022

Surecomp is launching a new offering that uses advanced cryptographic technology to allow financial institutions (FIs) to lessen the risk of duplicate financing fraud, according to a Tuesday (April 12) press release. The new product features an invoice comparison process that helps to identify whether...