Vesta, a transaction-guarantee platform for online purchases, has partnered with e-commerce platform provider Shopify Inc. to make its fraud-fighting solutions available to Shopify merchants. The addition of Vesta is expected to help Shopify sellers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico reduce false positives and increase approval rates for legitimate …

Stripe Inc. late Tuesday announced the launch of its Enhanced Issuer Network to help merchants reduce fraud and false positives and increase authorization rates. Card issuers within the network, which include Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services, can incorporate Stripe Radar fraud scores into their own authorization tools. …

Rejections that should have been approvals are on the rise. Are merchants willing to adjust their risk thresholds for a higher approval rate? False positives—legitimate transactions that are declined because they look suspicious at first glance—are a touchy subject for merchants. Not only do they cost a sale, some customers …

Criminals purchasing stolen credit card data know they have a short window of opportunity to cash in before the accounts are shut down. Manually sifting through the hundreds, even thousands, of accounts bought in bulk can take more time than criminals have, which is why they are increasingly relying on …

U.S. e-commerce merchants are struggling with more fraud, but they’re also contending with two related problems that are on the rise and costing them plenty of time and money—manual reviews and false rejections, also known as false positives. That’s according to two studies, one released on Wednesday and the other …

Shoppers have flooded online shopping sites in response to the pandemic, and now stores are expecting a further bonanza of e-commerce sales as consumers flock to sites for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. But while these two annual shopping extravaganzas will boost sales, they also are likely to have …

By John Stewart@DTPaymentNews Online merchants are dreading an onslaught of fraud, but what they should really brace for is a much bigger problem: so-called new version, which comes from EMVCo, the standards body controlled by the global card brands, will work in-app as well as within browser-based shopping sessions and …

While a seemingly unending rash of data breaches has payments players scrambling to adopt a panoply of fraud-fighting technologies, little attention has been focused on the consequences for issuers and merchants when cardholders are wrongly turned down at the point of sale because of fraud suspicions. It’s a big problem—bigger …

We know you’re not looking for problems. But they are looking for you. Herewith our annual catalog of the ones causing the most headaches. Each year in the fall, as the grass turns brown and the trees shed their leaves, the editors of Digital Transactions start their deliberations over an …