Fraud & Security

Since the global pandemic turned the world upside down, millions of consumers have taken their in-person shopping habits online. Fraudsters have noticed this shift in consumer shopping behavior and are capitalizing on it by trolling and exploring vulnerabilities throughout users’ entire online shopping journeys. While the holidays may seem far …

Financial-services firms, and fintechs particularly, have been swamped with account-takeover attacks over the past year, leaving many consumers wary of visiting these sites, according to a report issued Thursday by Sift Science Inc. Indeed, the volume of account-takeover attacks overall more than tripled between the second quarter of 2019 and …

Processor Fiserv Inc. said it will open a new office building in New Jersey that will include 428,000 square feet of space and accommodate approximately 3,000 employees.In related news, Visa Inc. said it will open a new office in Atlanta next year. The company expects the new space to accommodate approximately 1,000 employees over …

MX Technologies Inc. continues to grow its ecosystem of open-banking partners, announcing Monday it is partnering with Pinwheel, provider of an application programming interface for payroll applications. The deal will provide financial-technology service providers with expanded coverage of income verification and improved underwriting models for better lending decisions, which in …

Capital One has partnered with fraud-detection firm Signifyd Inc. to raise authorization rates and reduce mistakenly declined transactions on Cap One credit card transactions.The Internal Revenue Service on Friday sent more than 430,000 Advance Child Tax Credit payments via same-day ACH on the automated clearing house network, according to Nacha, the governing body …

Despite the percentage of card-not-present fraud transactions steadily hovering in the 10% to 13% range between the first quarter of 2020 and the same period in 2021, the average ticket size for fraudulent CNP transactions has steadily grown during that time, says a report from fraud-prevention platform provider Vesta Corp. …

The rapidly expanding utility of open banking for instant funding came into sharp relief early Thursday with announcements from payments processors Nuvei Corp. and Circle Internet Financial Corp. Montreal-based Nuvei, which has been cultivating its stake in the U.S. gaming market, said consumers can now move money instantly from their …

As the buy now, pay later payment option continues to permeate commerce, Affirm Inc. fine tunes its repayment options and Uplift hooks SeaWorld as a client. San Francisco-based Affirm says its new Adaptive Checkout gives consumers the option to pay in biweekly or monthly installments. The service will dynamically present a …

Chevron Products Co. said it is working with mobile-payments technology provider P97 Networks Inc. to enhance the company’s mobile apps for both Chevron and Texaco customers.Mercator Advisory Group’s “18th Annual U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Forecast 2020-2025” found that closed-loop prepaid card loads dropped 14% because of the pandemic, but are expected …

PayPal Holdings Inc. on Tuesday launched a new version of its mobile app with a panoply of new shopping and financial features aimed at broadening the product’s appeal with consumers who are increasingly turning to online commerce. The big refresh, the first PayPal has executed on its digital wallet for …