Credit Card Fraud news and trends

Mastercard Doubles Fraud Detection Rate With Generative AI
Security & Fraud // July 24, 2024

Mastercard has unveiled a new approach to identify compromised payment cards, leveraging a combination of generative artificial intelligence and graph technology. The company reports that this method has doubled its detection rate for compromised cards before they can be used fraudulently. The new technique could...

Galileo Launches 3D Secure Product to Guard Against Credit Card Fraud
Fraud Prevention // July 23, 2024

Galileo Financial Technologies now offers 3D Secure to help clients protect against card-not-present (CNP) debit and credit card fraud. The company’s new Galileo 3D Secure Access Control Server is available to clients in the United States, Canada and Latin America, Galileo said in a Tuesday...

Small Businesses Confront Card Fraud Vulnerabilities
Fraud Prevention // May 29, 2024

Large enterprises continue to fight all kinds of fraud, from insider threats to payments fraud to social engineering. But small businesses are often overlooked as they fight the same battles. Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of Risk and Identity Solutions James Mirfin and...

Payment Networks and Providers Leverage Data, AI in Battle vs First-Party Fraud 
Security & Fraud // March 19, 2024

First-party fraud is, increasingly, warranting a first line of defense from the payments networks, using data and AI to uncover what’s really going on with transactions and whether consumers are initiating fraudulent disputes. Picture, then, the cardholder who challenges a legitimate charge on their account....

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A Third of Consumers Have Been Victimized by Credit Card Fraud

December 05, 2024
Credit card fraud is a rising concern for American consumers, with nearly 1 in 3 reporting fraudulent charges in the past year. As incidents of fraud increase, so does consumer anxiety, with 37% of individuals expressing heightened worry. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Credit Card Fears Can Drive Consumers to Switch Banks,” in collaboration with i2c, […]

Mastercard Doubles Fraud Detection Rate With Generative AI

July 24, 2024
Mastercard has unveiled a new approach to identify compromised payment cards, leveraging a combination of generative artificial intelligence and graph technology. The company reports that this method has doubled its...

Small Businesses Confront Card Fraud Vulnerabilities

May 29, 2024
Large enterprises continue to fight all kinds of fraud, from insider threats to payments fraud to social engineering. But small businesses are often overlooked as they fight the same battles....

64% of FIs Report Increases in Fraud Attacks on Credit and Debit Cards 

May 25, 2023
The heated battle between fraudsters and financial institutions (FIs) got hotter during the pandemic-era run-up in eCommerce and the use of alternative payment methods. This joyless game of whack-a-mole is...

Quick Reads
Galileo Launches 3D Secure Product to Guard Against Credit Card Fraud

July 23, 2024
Galileo Financial Technologies now offers 3D Secure to help clients protect against card-not-present (CNP) debit and credit card fraud. The company’s new Galileo 3D Secure Access Control Server is available to clients in the United States, Canada and Latin America, Galileo said in a Tuesday (July 23) press release. “With CNP fraud on the rise, […]

SmartMetric Launches Biometric Security Solution for Credit and Debit Cards

June 27, 2023
SmartMetric has launched a biometric security solution for credit and debit cards. The solution features biometric fingerprint recognition technology built into the card to recognize the cardholder and turn on the...

Apple Investigates iTunes Fraud

July 23, 2018
Apple is currently investigating reports of fraudulent credit card charges being made through iTunes. According to Channel NewsAsia, dozens of Apple customers in Singapore have noticed a high number of...

Chip-Enabled Merchants Reach 2.9M In U.S.

May 22, 2018
Visa announced that the growing number of chip cards and chip-enabled merchants has helped bring counterfeit fraud in the U.S. down by 76 percent. “Visa set the path for the...