PYMNTS-MonitorEdge-May-2024

fraud

Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law, a criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

Mastercard: Tokenized Payments Turn Make-or-Break Checkout Moments Into Sales
Mastercard: Tokenized Payments Turn Make-or-Break Checkout Moments Into Sales
November 05, 2024  |  eCommerce

Seamless checkout is a winning mantra for retailers looking to capture sales and delight their customer bases. Customers largely expect a fast, secure and intuitive...

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Rigged Bids Drive Spikes in B2B Procurement Fraud
Rigged Bids Drive Spikes in B2B Procurement Fraud
November 04, 2024  |  Fraud Prevention

Procurement fraud is a growing problem in B2B transactions, and it’s even hitting Uncle Sam. With the recent news that six IT contractors have been...

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Singapore Responds to ‘Strong Interest’ in Asset Tokenization
Singapore Responds to ‘Strong Interest’ in Asset Tokenization
November 04, 2024  |  Blockchain

Singapore’s banking regulator announced plans to promote tokenization in the financial services industry. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the effort will include deepening...

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Making Sense of Your Company’s B2B Payments Data
Making Sense of Your Company’s B2B Payments Data
November 01, 2024  |  B2B Payments

For most of its history, payments data has been primarily paper-based. This relegated B2B payments data to mere record-keeping minutiae and made the task of...

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Visa Reports More Than 500 Generative AI Applications
Visa Reports More Than 500 Generative AI Applications
November 01, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Visa reportedly uses more than 500 generative artificial intelligence applications and is looking to add more. The company aims to gain the benefits of the...

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Securing the Cyber Perimeter Starts With Safeguarding Corporate Emails
Securing the Cyber Perimeter Starts With Safeguarding Corporate Emails
November 01, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

Corporate email accounts are among the most exploitable entry points for scammers. Phishing, ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks cost companies billions of dollars...

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Mastercard: Contactless Payments Now 70% of Face-to-Face Transactions
Mastercard: Contactless Payments Now 70% of Face-to-Face Transactions
October 31, 2024  |  Mastercard

Mastercard’s third-quarter earnings results demonstrated that consumers are still spending, and sentiment is healthy amid a resilient labor market and the Federal Reserve’s September cuts...

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Thredd Rolls Out Compliance and Risk Management Tools
Thredd Rolls Out Compliance and Risk Management Tools
October 31, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Payments processor Thredd introduced a suite of compliance and risk management services. The new offerings are designed to help FinTechs, program managers and their bank...

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Bank of America May Ask Courts to Resolve CFPB Zelle Investigation
Bank of America May Ask Courts to Resolve CFPB Zelle Investigation
October 30, 2024  |  Banking

Bank of America may ask a court to resolve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) investigation of the bank’s processing of payments through the Zelle...

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