First Party Fraud news and trends

What Small Businesses Need to Know About Fighting First-Party Fraud
Fraud Prevention // June 25, 2024

The opportunities have never been greater, and the challenges more challenging, for America’s small businesses. And with the news that small and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could be facing up to a 40% jump in “friendly fraud” and “first-party fraud” — meaning card chargebacks and disputes by...

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....

Socure Launches Tool and Financial Consortium to Fight First-Party Fraud
Security & Fraud // October 23, 2023

Socure has launched its first-party fraud solution, Sigma First-Party Fraud, along with the First-Party Fraud Consortium (FPFC). Together, these solutions aim to help companies detect and prevent first-party fraud, the provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions said in a Monday (Oct. 23) press release. First-party fraud...

Mastercard Targets Friendly Fraud With First-Party Trust Program
Fraud Prevention // October 23, 2023

Mastercard has launched a program designed to help merchants battle “friendly fraud.” The company’s First-Party Trust program, announced Monday (Oct. 23), employs “enhanced transaction insights,” artificial intelligence (AI), and risk modeling to combat friendly fraud, which occurs when a customer mistakenly or intentionally challenges a purchase. “As more of...

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Socure’s Friendly Fraud Fighting Consortium Hits Data Collection ‘Milestone’

December 05, 2024
Socure says it has reached a milestone in its collaborative effort to combat “friendly fraud.” The identity verification firm last year formed the First-Party Fraud Consortium, a group of companies that came together to battle the type of fraud — also known as friendly fraud — that happens when people use their own identity to carry out […]

Socure Launches Tool and Financial Consortium to Fight First-Party Fraud

October 23, 2023
Socure has launched its first-party fraud solution, Sigma First-Party Fraud, along with the First-Party Fraud Consortium (FPFC). Together, these solutions aim to help companies detect and prevent first-party fraud, the provider of...

Mastercard Targets Friendly Fraud With First-Party Trust Program

October 23, 2023
Mastercard has launched a program designed to help merchants battle “friendly fraud.” The company’s First-Party Trust program, announced Monday (Oct. 23), employs “enhanced transaction insights,” artificial intelligence (AI), and risk modeling to combat friendly...