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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LexisNexis prepares to fund two acquisitions totaling $855 million as parent company RELX looks to buy two major names in the identity authentication and risk management space. This includes the acquisition of ID Analytics from NortonLifeLock in January followed by the purchase of email authentication vendor Emailage, announced in mid-February. Both deals are expected to
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Although often overlooked, post-transaction monitoring and reporting are important secondary capabilities that can lead to improvements in a risk management program. Post-transaction procedures often increase the value of existing techniques such as velocity checks, link analysis and other techniques. This enables organizations to utilize these techniques more proactively to better prevent repeat and morphing fraud
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