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

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

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

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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Cyber Weekend Fraud Declines See 30% Increase Year-Over-Year and 50% Increase Relative to Rest of Year
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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Online Order Returns Spike Post Holidays
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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