Digital fraud, while nothing new for merchants and payment processors, continues to gain momentum and is predicted to surge even higher during the upcoming a holiday season, a report from Arkose Labs says.  Overall, fraud attacks have increased 15% compared to the previous quarter. In addition, Arkose is predicting 8 …

Heading into the holiday shopping season, consumers are poised to make even more use of buy now, pay later options than in the past. Overall, 42% of consumers plan to use BNPL while holiday shopping, according to a survey by GoCardless, a provider of account-to-account payments. When Millennials were asked …

ACI Worldwide Inc. added to its growing list of buy now, pay later partners on Monday, announcing a deal with Affirm Inc. Merchants using the processor’s ACI Secure eCommerce solution can offer consumers the ability to make purchases with Affirm and split the cost of the purchase into biweekly or …

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 …

The numbers are in, and it turns out the holiday shopping season was not only better than expected, but also better than the one in 2019, weeks before the coronavirus pandemic struck in the United States. Retail sales in November and December totaled $789.4 billion, up a healthy 8.3% over …

The economy may have fallen into recession, but processors and online stores can expect a healthy holiday season this year, according to projections released Thursday by ACI Worldwide Inc. The Naples, Fla.-based payments provider said e-commerce transactions will jump 27% globally in the fourth quarter compared to the same period …

When it comes to fighting fraud during this year’s holiday season—a time when, any other year, e-commerce would likely be booming and fraudsters would be after the usual targets—all we can really expect is change. Now more than ever it is important to be proactive with your trust and safety …