Fraud & Security

Darwinium, a fraud-prevention platform serving payments providers and fintechs from global offices in London and Sydney, announced its expansion into the U.S. market, including relocation of its corporate headquarters to San Francisco. Some 65% of treasury officers reported their organizations were victimized by attempted or actual fraud last year, the …

As real-time payments gain more traction in the United States, ACI Worldwide Inc. is making fraud-protection services that cater to these methods available under the Real-Time Payments Cloud moniker. Announced Tuesday and working with Microsoft Corp.’s cloud service Azure, ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud supports the Real Time Payments network from …

Early Warning Services LLC Monday morning issued a report from its chief executive reporting significant first-quarter growth for the company’s Zelle peer-to-peer payments network and underscoring efforts by EWS, owned by seven of the nation’s biggest banks, to combat fraud and scams. Though the report, signed by four-year CEO Al …

NCR Corp. said it is investigating a ransomware incident affecting one of its data centers and its Aloha cloud-based services for the hospitality industry. Its ATM, digital banking, payments and other retail services are not impacted. Huntington National Bank said it has extended Huntington ChoicePay to payments in higher education and business services. …

Responding to allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and Florida’s attorney general that it used multiple techniques to prevent consumers from winning chargeback disputes, chargeback-management company Chargebacks911 on Friday released a statement saying the charges are unfounded. The FTC and Florida attorney general Ashley Moody sued Chargebacks911 on Wednesday alleging …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. said it is extending to Canada its processing agreement with payments platform Stripe Inc. Payments fintech Alacriti said it will provide identity verification for real-time payments through fraud-solutions provider Socure. Payments-technology provider Central Payments renewed an agreement with Galileo Financial Technologies LLC to process for Central’s Open*CP Fintech API …

The number of reported data compromises totaled 445 in the first quarter, a 13% decrease from the previous quarter, according to the latest report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The number of victims decreased 64% in the same period. Health care breaches, at 81, led the quarter followed by financial services …

Garmin Ltd. launched its latest smart watch, the $450 Instinct 2X Solar, which like most of its devices includes Garmin Pay, the company’s contactless-payment capability. ParkHub, a specialist in digital payments for parking, announced an agreement under which it will process payments at three venues owned by sports and live-entertainment company …

Visa Inc. announced a pilot for Visa+, a service that allows users to move payments between rival peer-to-peer payments networks. The pilot, set to launch later this year, will begin with transfers between PayPal and Venmo, a PayPal-owned network, but plans are to include P2P services DailyPay, i2c, TabaPay, and Western …

Payment processor Euronet Worldwide Inc. on Wednesday announced a new fraud-monitoring service called Skylight the company says will enable analysts to write rules for monitoring suspicious transactions without needing to change software coding. The cloud-based service comes from Euronet’s epay division and runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon.com Inc.’s …