eCommerce Retail Spending Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday Grew 10 Percent
According to estimates from comScore, U.S. consumers spent over $7.2 billion online from PCs during the five day period from Thanksgiving...
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Samsung Pay and CurrentC Grow Their Reach with New Partnerships
One of the more difficult and most important aspects of building a successful mobile wallet is ensuring that consumers can use it with...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
PayPal Evolving P2P Payment App Venmo to Support Online and Mobile B2C Transactions
The popular person-to-person payment service Venmo has continued to grow in terms of its user base and total payment volume, but with...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
American Express Leverages Cardholder Online Login Information for Faster Online and Mobile Purchase
Following Visa Checkout and MasterPass, American Express launched their new Amex Express Checkout service in July, but doesn’t want it to...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Facebooks Leads the Way, But Many Social Media Platforms DriveTraffic and Sales
The top 500 online retailers in terms of site traffic from social media earned $3.3 billion in revenue from social shopping in 2014 while...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Over 44 Percent of Online Payments in the UK are Made via Mobile
According to data from Adyen based on client transaction data, more than 27 percent of online payments made in the first quarter of 2015...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Get Ready for Facebook’s Foray into Payments
Facebook announced new features to their Messenger service in March allowing users to make P2P payments, but didn’t stop there. They have...
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With Custom Modeling, Deployment is Just as Critical as Design
Sarasota, FL, March 18, 2015 / By: Justin McDonald, The Fraud Practice LLC Custom modeling and analytics is an advanced risk management...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Mobile Propels Higher U.S. e-Retail Forecasts for Holiday Season and 2014 Calendar Year
Recent forecasts from eMarketer estimate eCommerce retail sales will exceed $305 billion in 2014, a 16 percent increase from last year,...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Couriers Expecting Holiday Shipments to Increase by About 10 Percent This Year
Shipping companies always hire seasonal employees to help with increased deliveries during the holiday season but this year both FedEx...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Visa Replaces V.me with Visa Checkout, Adds New Merchants
Visa launched their e-wallet, V.me, in late 2011, but this was discontinued in July, 2014 in favor of Visa’s new, although quite similar...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Largest Grocer in U.S. Prepares to Enter eCommerce with Vitacost Acquisition
Kroger, the largest pure grocery store chain by sales in the United States, recently purchased online vitamin merchant Vitacost.com for...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
250 million stolen credit cards for sale online
According to estimates from fraud prevention startup Trustev, there are 250 million compromised payment card numbers for sale in the...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
eCommerce Sales Reach New Heights to Start this Holiday Shopping Season
According to data from ComScore U.S. eCommerce sales from home and work computers grew by double digit percentage gains in 2013 on...
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Nov 3, 20213 min read
Considerations for Handling Increased Traffic and Changing Consumer Preferences this Holiday Season
Online shopping has grown year-after-year while becoming an increasingly important portion of total Q4 retail sales. Last Cyber Monday...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
95 Percent of Americans Received Email with Malware and 9 Percent Opened the Attachment
According to a recent report from Halon, an email security provider, 94.7 percent of Americans received one or more emails that contained...
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Nov 3, 20213 min read
Avoiding Customer Service Chargebacks for your Online Business
A guest post by: J. Ruzicka, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional When reconciling your past chargebacks it is important to categorize...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
Register for Online Training Programs Before October Price Adjustments
On October 1st The Fraud Practice will be increasing the enrollment prices of our online training programs across the board. If there are...
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Nov 3, 20213 min read
Increasing Consumer Confidence in a Website to Increase Sales
When it comes to gaining new customers and converting sales, there are several features and signals that a website can include make...
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Senate Budget Resolution Includes Provisions for Collecting Online Sales Tax
Government leaders claim that the lack of authority for collecting sales tax with many online purchases costs the U.S billions each year,...
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