The accelerations in eCommerce Delivery, Marketplaces and the gig economy have companies scrambling to make better decisions, faster. Model-based applications are being applied to address wider areas of fraud, as they can detect threats more precisely and efficiently. Read More
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The Rise of Machine Learning and AI in the Fraud Prevention Industry
13% of organizations today have adapted Machine Learning and AI into their fraud detection protocols. Another 25% of organizations plan on converting from a rule-based system within the next two years. Read More
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Mobile Wallets Responsible for The Rise in Friendly Fraud
Merchants are less likely to dispute chargebacks on transactions originating from mobile wallets and significantly less likely to win those they choose to represent. Consumers may be more prone to commit friendly fraud with mobile wallet transactions and the dishonest ones may already be exploiting this trend. Read More
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Online Sales Set Records but Fall Short of High Expectations
Cyber Monday once again set the record for the largest online shopping day in the United States as consumers spent more than $10.8 billion online. Black Friday online sales also topped last year’s with $9.03 billion in online sales, but neither day lived up to the elevated expectations for online holiday spending during the pandemic.
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Nacha Approves Amendments to Operating Rules Focused on Supporting More Technologies and Handling Unauthorized Payments
Nacha, who enables Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments, has approved eight amendments to their Operating Rules focused on infrastructure around improving Same Day ACH and providing a framework for authorizing consumer ACH payments that can be applied to the growing channels and technologies consumers want to use to make digital payments. Additional new rules pertain
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Who Will be Displaced by Amazon’s New Fraud Detection Service?
Fraud solution providers need to be prepared to competitively position and message against the new Amazon Fraud Detector risk modeling services. Here’s what risk vendors and sales professionals need to know about Amazon’s new risk management service offering and how to prepare for prospects or current clients considering this new service. Read More
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Keeping Up with the New Normal in eCommerce, Fraud and Payments
A common theme throughout 2020 has been the acceleration of digital adoption across both businesses and consumers. We take a look at the lingering impacts on payments and risk across multiple studies and reports comparing consumer and fraudster activity between 2019 and 2020. Read More
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Processors Prepare for Increasing Merchant Chargeback Losses and Look to Increase Reserves
A FinTech lawyer reported that as many as one-fifth of his merchant clients have been contacted by their payment processors about the possibility of increasing their reserve requirements. This comes as Square increased provisions for merchant transaction losses to $79.3 million in the first quarter, a three-fold increase from the same quarter last year. The
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Who Is Looking Out For eCommerce Merchants?
Guest Post Written by: Daryn Griggs, Co-Founder, Payshield, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional The events of COVID 19 have seen a massive increase in online shopping around the world including people who have never shopped online before. Naturally with an increase in online shopping comes an increase in online fraud, and the biggest fraud increase? Friendly Fraud!
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