For financial institutions that have so far adopted real-time payments, 58% have opted for both FedNow and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP system. But only 41% of large banks and 28% of businesses agree that the United States is moving fast enough toward adoption of faster payments. This is …
Read More »Eye on Mastercard: New Tools for the Mid-Market; a Feedzai Collaboration Targets Scams
Mastercard Inc. is launching a new service it says will help financial institutions better serve their middle-market business clients. The card brand also is working with Feedzai, a fraud-prevention provider, to help FIs better identify and stop scams. Announced Tuesday, the Mastercard Mid-Market Accelerator suite of products is aimed at …
Read More »How Online Marketplaces Are Making It Easier to Access Tools for Large-Scale Fraud Attacks
Fraud-as-a-service offerings last year made it easier than ever for criminals to perpetrate mega-fraud attacks across payment, social media, and cryptocurrency platforms, says a report from AU10TIX, a provider of identity-verification solutions. Fraud-as-a-service refers to online marketplaces that sell the tools criminals need to perpetrate fraud, such as artificial-intelligence-based tools …
Read More »Payment Attacks Lessen and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/13/25
Identity and verification services firm AU10TIX released its “2024 Report on Global Identity Fraud” that found 54% of attacks in the first quarter were against the payments sector but declined to 43% by the fourth quarter because of tougher law enforcement. Euronet Worldwide Inc., a U.S.-based processor operating in Europe, said that …
Read More »One Inc’s Banner 2024 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/12/25
One Inc, a payments platform for the insurance industry, reported it signed 87 new agreements in 2024, with revenue up 55% for the year. The company exited the year at an annual run rate of $100 billion in processing volume, it said. Corpay Inc. said its cross-border payments platform launched Multi-Currency …
Read More »Another Step for Pay by Bank and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/25
Trustly, an open-banking specialist, will work with payments specialist Spreedly to offer pay-by-bank services to merchants. ACI Worldwide Inc. will work with Banfico, a provider of technology for open banking and regulatory compliance, to help banks and payment service providers in Europe comply with confirmation of payee and verification of payee …
Read More »Financial Services Companies Are Embracing AI for Customer Interaction and in the Back Office
A new report from Nvidia Corp. sheds some light on how quickly and broadly the financial-services industry has picked up on using artificial intelligence tools for the customer experience and in the back office. In its latest “State of AI in Financial Services” report, Nvidia found that 60% of more …
Read More »Checkbook Adds Visa Direct and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/25
Payments platform Checkbook said its users can now deposit funds in real time through Visa Direct to fund bank accounts connected to more than 4 billion debit cards. Merchant’s Pact, a provider of payments services for banks, said an integration with Q2 Holdings Inc.’s digital-banking service will allow banks to offer an …
Read More »Cyberfraud On the Rise Thanks to AI; Worldpay Acquires Ravelin to Boost Its Fraud Fighting Tech
Thanks to criminals’ increasing adoption of artificial intelligence, cyberfraud rose 14% in 2024, according to a report from Trustpair, a provider of fraud-prevention technology. Overall, 90% of U.S. companies were targeted by cyber fraud the past year, compared to 79% in 2023. The increase is being driven by criminals’ use …
Read More »RTP Passes 1 Billion Mark and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/25
The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real Time Payments Network said it passed 1 billion cumulative payments on Friday. The network, operated by TCH since 2017, also set single-day records Friday for number of payments, at 1,592,419, and value, at $1.44 billion. New York City-based TCH is owned by 20 large commercial banks. President Donald …
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