The number of order attempts declined for suspected fraud increased by nearly 30 percent year-over-year for orders between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to data from iovation, that also found a fraud decline rate 50 percent higher than the yearly average (15 percent vs. 10 percent). Likewise, a cyber security firm found a 63 percent
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Private courier UPS has declared January 2nd National Returns Day, the busiest package return day of the year, and prepared to handle nearly 2 million packages representing returned gifts on this day alone. We take a look at online order return rates and volume while discussing the costs, and even benefits, of reverse logistics operations
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Mobile and eCommerce shopping hit new highs this holiday season as Cyber Monday yet again beat its own record as the largest online shopping day in the U.S. with over $9.4 billion in eCommerce retail sales. This followed a record day for Black Friday which reached $7.4 billion in online sales while U.S. eCommerce volume
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Unable to catch up to Apple, Samsung or Google Play, Chase Pay was used by less than 10 percent of Chase cardholders in the last 90 days, and the mobile app will be discontinued in early 2020. Chase Pay launched in November 2016 and although being discontinued most of its features have been adopted elsewhere.
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Cyber Monday 2018 was the largest online shopping day recorded in the U.S. with $7.9 billion in sales volume, according to Adobe Analytics. Online sales on Black Friday grew 24 percent from 2017 to $6.2 billion this year as mobile shopping and pick-up in-store saw the largest growth. While Cyber Monday online spending increased about
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A recent survey from CaptialOne found that 26 percent of consumers believe Cyber Monday is the riskiest day of the year to shop online while 85 percent of US consumers believe the risk of identity fraud is elevated during the holidays. Financial fraud was the top concern amongst Americans, surpassing consumers who were most concerned
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Alibaba, China’s largest online company, reported gross merchandise value (GMV) of $30.8 billing on Singles Day or 11/11. This metric, which represents the dollar value of goods sold by third parties over Alibaba’s platform, is up 22 percent from last year. Singles Day is the largest online shopping day in China, far exceeding the value
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When a legitimate customer has their order declined because of fraud concerns they may purchase from a competitor and may never return to the merchant who turned them away. This is not only painful in terms of losing the sale and potentially the lifetime value of that customer, but this makes measuring false positives difficult.
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A recent study from PPRO and Edgar, Dunn & Co. found that while about 40 percent of online sales in European countries are made to customers abroad, just 11 percent of U.S. eCommerce sales are purchases made from foreign countries. This lopsided figure underscores the difficulty of facilitating cross-border transactions, but there are many factors
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Card Not Present channel Merchants cite order rejection rates of nearly 3 percent for domestic transactions and nearly 7 percent for international orders. Meanwhile more than half of merchants depend on AVS and CVV checks, considering them to be effective fraud tools. While most merchants measure fraud rates and order rejection rates, far fewer take
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