The top 50 originating financial institutions on the automated clearing house network hit nearly 27.7 billion in payments in 2023, a 5.7% increase over 2022, Nacha says. Volume for the top 50 receiving FIs was almost 20 billion payments in 2023, a 6.4% increase from 2022. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha says …
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Generative AI, Pig Butchering, And Triangulation Scams Are Among the Biggest Fraud Threats, Visa Says
New technologies such as generative AI are making it easier for fraudsters to scam consumers, according to the spring edition of Visa Inc.’s 2024 Biannual Fraud Threats report, just released. What makes generative AI such an effective fraud tool is that it can be used to convince consumers to give …
Read More »JPMorgan Retains Its Top Acquiring Spot in TSG’s Annual Review
TSG’s yearly review of more than 300 U.S. merchant acquirers is out, and there is little surprise that JPMorgan Chase & Co. retains the top spot with an estimated 2023 U.S. processing volume of $2.4 trillion. While the top three slots in the annual TSG Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers …
Read More »New Nacha Rules Take Aim At Credit Push Fraud, Handing a Clearer Role to Receivers
Nacha, the governing body for the automated clearing house network, has approved a new set of rules aimed at curbing the growing threat of credit-push fraud. Credit-push fraud uses social engineering and email phishing attacks to deceive someone into sending funds to a criminal-controlled account. Common examples of credit-push fraud …
Read More »Nuvei Could Be in Play To Be Taken Private by Advent International
Montreal-based Nuvei Corp. early Monday issued a statement confirming it has received interest from potential investors and has created a “special committee” of independent directors to review “expressions of interest” regarding offers to take the company private, as well as other “strategic alternatives.” Private-equity firm Advent International Corp. is making …
Read More »As McDonald’s Recovers From a Global Outage, It Looks to Prevention And Accountability
McDonald’s Corp. on Sunday showed signs it had largely recovered from a widespread system outage that began early Friday and shut down service, prevented card payments, and scrambled digital orders for hours at thousands of restaurants around the world. Now, the company is seeking the cause and promising to hold …
Read More »How the CFPB’s Mobile Wallet Rule Is Raising More Questions Than Answers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its proposed rule on mobile wallets back in November, and comments on it closed Jan. 8, but that doesn’t mean the proposal isn’t still stirring up discussion as lawmakers, payments experts, and technology firms wrestle with its implications. The rule, which would define so-called …
Read More »DoorDash Expands Its SNAP/EBT Program to More Than 10,000 Stores
DoorDash Inc. has added 13 grocery-store chains to its platform that will accept electronic benefits transfer and SNAP cards for payment. The list of grocers—which includes, ACME Markets, Food City, Hy-Vee, Jewel-Osco, Kings Food Markets, Pavilions, Randalls, Shaw’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Star Market, Stater Bros. Markets, Tom Thumb, and Vons—comprises …
Read More »A New Mobile Wallet Is Set to Emerge for Electronic Games in Bars And Restaurants
With the proliferation of smart phones, mobile wallets have been specializing in recent years as businesses find ways to work them into their payments stream and consumers find the devices impossible to leave behind. Now, mobile payments are coming to the world of electronic games in bars and restaurants. TouchTunes …
Read More »Security Firm Zumigo Ditches Passwords for Customer Authentication in Online Transactions
Zumigo Inc., a provider of mobile-identity authentication technology, says it has enhanced its DeRiskify fraud-prevention product for e-commerce merchants by enabling sellers to authenticate customers without a password requirement when customers log into their account. Eliminating the need for passwords in the customer-verification process pleases customers, which in turn can …
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