Payments firm Orum has debuted a tool to help clients prevent failed payments. No Code Verify, announced Thursday (May 2), lets businesses and institutions determine if a bank account is open and valid before initiating payments, Orum said in a news release. It’s an extension of the...
Private equity company Permira has acquired a majority stake in Israeli fraud/financial crime prevention provider BioCatch. The agreement, announced Thursday (May 2), values BioCatch at $1.3 billion, and comes amid a rising demand for fraud prevention solutions. Permira’s acquisition comes almost exactly a year after the...
Mastercard is bringing an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, partnership approach to detecting and preventing identity and payments scams before they can result in victimizing consumers. The company announced on Wednesday (April 24) a new product suite and several cross-industry partners to combat the use of AI to...
Cognizant and FICO plan to launch a cloud-based real-time payments fraud prevention solution designed for North American banks and other payment service providers. The joint offering would leverage both firms’ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, the companies said in a Wednesday (April 17) press release....
June 28, 2024
Traditional rules-based systems for detecting payments fraud are increasingly inadequate due to the complex schemes devised by fraudsters. This leads to high false positives and limited adaptability. Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) improves on this by reducing false positives and adapting to new schemes using machine learning. However, generative AI, employing unsupervised or semi-supervised learning techniques, […]
April 12, 2024
Disbursements are a critical part of the modern economy, with more than 170 million consumers in the United States receiving at least one within the past year. These come in...
April 04, 2024
For as long as hard-earned money has existed, criminals have been trying to take it. And as money itself has evolved across an increasingly digital landscape, bad actors have followed...
January 24, 2024
No matter the attack vector, bad actors have a singular strategy in place when it comes to eCommerce fraud, Jason Paguandas, VP and GM, Merchant Security and Fraud, Carat from...
May 02, 2024
Payments firm Orum has debuted a tool to help clients prevent failed payments. No Code Verify, announced Thursday (May 2), lets businesses and institutions determine if a bank account is open and valid before initiating payments, Orum said in a news release. It’s an extension of the company’s Verify solution, launched last year to help businesses and […]
May 02, 2024
Private equity company Permira has acquired a majority stake in Israeli fraud/financial crime prevention provider BioCatch. The agreement, announced Thursday (May 2), values BioCatch at $1.3 billion, and comes amid a...
April 17, 2024
Cognizant and FICO plan to launch a cloud-based real-time payments fraud prevention solution designed for North American banks and other payment service providers. The joint offering would leverage both firms’ artificial intelligence...
March 19, 2024
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has chosen Swift to assist in improving the country’s payment capabilities. Swift will build a service to reduce misdirect payments and boost defenses against payment fraud, the...
