Banking regulators are looking for ways to tackle authorized payment scams, such as spreading the risk to other banks. In a new report on how eight countries are handling this fraud, researcher Ken Palla advises banks to focus on reimbursing victims and preventing the theft.
Fintech company Block faces a putative class action demanding damages for customers affected by a 2021 data breach that affected 8.2 million individuals. The company, formerly known as Square and co-founded by former-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, disclosed the breach in April.
The adoption of digital platforms shows no signs of slowing down as consumers embrace the convenience of mobile channels in Asia-Pacific region. What has also become clearly apparent from analysis of the LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network®, is that fraud is on the rise as consumer confidence returns.
In...
By all accounts, Buy Now, Pay Later stands to be one of the
biggest disruptors the credit landscape has seen
in years. With the market expected to surpass $179
billion by the end of 2022, the opportunities for
growth are enormous. This also means fraudsters are taking note as the industry is trending in the...
What makes authorized payment scams hard to detect? The speed and volume of transactions hinders banks in monitoring for fraud, but David Lott, payments risk expert with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, says educating customers and leveraging the right technology can help reduce scams.
Security leaders have acted as a result of the cyberattacks' tenacity, sophistication, and disruptiveness. They've switched from being reactive to being proactive, and they're now using the Microsegmentation and Zero Trust approaches.
They are able to discover, respond to, and recover from security breaches with...
Ten years from now, "the ability to transact on a global basis will continue," says Nick Coleman, CSO, real-time payments at MasterCard, who adds, "Maybe my car will buy stuff for me." Coleman discusses the future of digital payments and the technologies that can help secure that future.
This annual survey seeks to evaluate the current and projected impact of fraud on the finance and treasury environment. Practitioners from all industries are polled on their experiences with fraud and on the range of controls, safeguards and security practices employed to protect their financial assets and...
Android spyware FluBot's infrastructure was disrupted by the Dutch police as part of a multinational law enforcement operation in May, rendering this strain of malware inactive, Europol says. The agency is continuing its probe into identifying the actors responsible for the malware campaign.
Financial services firms lose an average of $18.5 million per year through malicious activity like leaked credentials, payment fraud, money laundering, fake account registration, loyalty abuse, and more. Fraud prevention depends on effective intelligence gathering, and few firms have the tools or personnel to...
Pre-pandemic, escalating mobile banking adoption rate was primarily fueled by smartphone penetration, with over 4 billion people using smartphones. However, the disruption emerging from the onset of COVID-19 has been a major driver of mobile banking, fast-tracking the trend of mobile-first banking among younger...
Financial criminals are constantly adapting and evolving their tactics to get ahead of financial institutions (FIs). Keeping pace with these criminals is a challenge in of itself, and when you couple that with the need to comply to ever-changing regulations?
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Between the ever-changing fraud landscape, and the surge in digital banking (which is here to stay), small to mid-sized banks and credit unions are already at a crossroads for financial crime risk management.
To make matters even more challenging, conventional fraud and AML tools are generating an overwhelming...
In the today’s digital world, when so much of our lives are online, identity verification and authentication are critical to addressing fraud-related risk management challenges. To prevent fraud and protect your business and your customers, you must be certain the people you are dealing with are who they represent...
In the today’s digital world, when so much of our lives are online, identity verification and authentication are critical to addressing fraud-related risk management challenges. To prevent fraud and protect your business and your customers, you must be certain the people you are dealing with are who they represent...
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