Fraud & Security

Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. announced it will integrate network tokens from Visa to mask credit and debit card account numbers. The Federal Reserve Board announced an average 1.8% increase in pricing for established services such as check clearing and automated clearing house transactions, with pricing for the FedNow real-time network, which launched in July, …

Vesta, a fraud-prevention provider for e-commerce merchants, said it will integrate Stripe Inc.’s Radar risk scores and Stripe Connect, which enables businesses to facilitate purchases and payments between third-party buyers and sellers, into its Payment Guarantee platform. The Stripe Radar integration will help Vesta’s client merchants increase transactional approval rates …

The use of customer off the shelf (COTS) technology suggests that a merchant can leverage personally procured Android or Apple devices to execute point-of-sale operations. Even in today’s rapidly evolving payment technology, it’s a bold assumption. Such an implementation poses significant security challenges beyond contravening numerous acquiring and payment card …

Payments provider i3 Verticals Inc. posted fourth-quarter 2023 revenue of $96.4 million, a 13% increase from $85.3 million for the same quarter a year ago ended Sept. 30. Quarterly income of $3.4 million reversed a $4.4 million loss last year. For the full year, i3 Verticals had a loss of $2.7 million, …

The United States accounts for 57% of retailers that reported a breach this year, according to Trustwave’s “2023 Retail Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies” report. The United Kingdom (8%) and Canada (7%) are a distant second and third. In related news, Riskified Ltd., a provider of technology …

Zelle, the person-to-person payment service from Early Warning Services LLC, said it will launch a consumer education campaign video series this month to help educate consumers how to spot and avoid financial scams, specifically imposter scams. Zelle, in a statement to Digital Transaction News, also said most Zelle transactions—99.9%—are without any …

Banks in Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment network operated by Early Warning Services LLC, have been issuing refunds to consumers duped by fraudsters into sending money using the network, according to a report Monday by Reuters.  The reimbursements, which the banks have reportedly been paying out since June 30, represent a …

Payments platform Klarna AB added a service in the U.S. market that enables “creators” to open customized online storefronts. PCI Pal, a provider of compliance technology for the Payment Card Industry data-security standard, said it is working with Zoom Video Communications Inc. to launch its services with Zoom Contact Center and Zoom …

The Federal Trade Commission and the state of Florida reached a settlement with Chargebacks911 in a lawsuit they filed in April alleging the company and its owners use multiple unfair techniques to prevent consumers from winning chargeback disputes. The settlement would prohibit them from providing chargeback mitigation services to high-risk clients that use affiliate …

Fraud at call centers operated by financial services organizations increased 39% from 2019 to 2022, according to new data from TransUnion LLC. That was the third-largest increase among sectors, surpassed only by travel and leisure and logistics, finds the TransUnion “2023 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report.” The report is based …