Fraud & Security

Socure Inc., a provider of digital-identity verification and fraud detection, has become the latest company to join the expanding universe of open-banking technology providers. On Tuesday, Socure announced the launch of Socure Account Intelligence, an application that verifies domestic bank-account status and ownership of the account into which funds are …

With data sharing via open-banking arrangements becoming increasingly vital in the payments business, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday released an outline of a “data-rights rule” it is preparing that would govern how consumers’ financial information is shared among players such as banks and payments companies. The proposed rule …

Tyler Technologies, a specialist in government services and payments, said it will acquire Rapid Financial Solutions, a provider of payments, card issuance, and digital disbursement services, for $68 million. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.Prepaid card specialist InComm Payments has acquired The Card Network, a gift card issuer based …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s next step in payment security is to replace passwords with passkeys, an authentication technology that could eliminate many security and practical issues for consumers and organizations alike. PayPal said it is adding the passkey technology—it uses cryptographic keys to identify devices and was developed by the FIDO …

BNY Mellon announced early Monday it has launched a payments platform called Vaia, which allows clients to offer real-time payments, same-day automated clearing house transfers, tokenized payments, debit cards, and payments through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network. The nation’s 10th-largest bank by assets said the panoply of payments capabilities can …

Payments provider Adyen NV launched two new services—Capital and Account, offering to small businesses cash advances, business bank accounts, and card-issuing capability.Payment platform GoCardless launched Protect+, an anti-fraud service offering payor authentication, fraud monitoring, and chargeback challenges.Payments-technology provider Payoneer said it has collaborated with e-commerce platform WooCommerce to enable Payoneer Checkout via a plug-in for small …

Fraud prevention services provider Signifyd launched Fearless Payments, a suite of services to help payment service providers increase authorization rates. Among its features are automated risk decisions, authorization rate optimization, and chargeback guarantees on all approved orders.Diebold Nixdorf Inc. announced it will integrate fraud-prevention technology from Featurespace into its Vynamic payments-processing platform.CSG Forte, …

The online shopper going by “Michael Smith,” who lives in Houston, may not be a living, breathing consumer, according to new research from Socure, a digital identity verification provider. This consumer, with seemingly valid credentials, may be a synthetic identity meant to defraud merchants. So-called synthetic fraud, already accounting for …

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a ruling that vacates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2017 Payday Lending Rule, contended the CFPB’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional because its funds are not appropriated by Congress.Visa Inc. said it is working with Thunes, a business-to-business payments company, to extend Visa …

The tug of passwords remains strong among individuals, though their use has dropped by as much as 9% in some use cases. Data from the second annual Online Authentication Barometer from the FIDO Alliance, an authentication-advocacy organization, still found that password use continues to be strong. That reliance on passwords …