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On November 21st, a security alert from NCR was issued describing a new form of Transaction Reversal Fraud (TRF) occurring in the UK, typically between 10 PM and midnight on any given day. Contrary to previously reported TRF attacks in which cash is pried from the dispenser after a payment reversal is initiated due to the jamming of the card reade...
26 November 2019 /security /payments
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
While the use of Blockchain may provide transformative advantages over other technologies in some cases, they are not a panacea and do not magically solve every problem. Many publications, reports, and news articles focus primarily on the ‘pros’ (and occasionally exaggerate the positive impact Blockchain technology can have) without mentioning or ...
27 September 2019 /security
Jackie Barwell Director at ACI Worldwide
The eCommerce industry is continuing its rapid growth and the lines between physical and digital shopping are becoming increasingly blurred. This change in the way consumers conduct purchases is creating a number of challenges for merchants, especially when it comes to customer visibility and fraud prevention. Providing a good customer experience...
20 May 2019 /security /regulation
Sean Neary Senior Product Officer at Featurespace
The finance world may still have concerns after it was revealed that British Airways (BA) was victim to a two-week long hack that resulted in 380,000 payments being compromised in August. And while everyone might be on high alert today for how fraudsters will use this data trove, the real risk may come further down the line. The hackers used “very...
04 October 2018 /ai /security
I continue to be surprised by the lack of analysis and focus on operational efficiency when it comes to understanding all aspects of fraud prevention. Organisations spend a lot of time on improvements and removing ambiguity within their teams. It is a constant, ongoing activity, across all businesses. The same needs to be true with fraud, and I be...
27 September 2018 /ai /security
How to select the correct operational option to help your organisation beat fraud By Dr. Mark Goldspink is CEO of The ai Corporation I continue to be surprised by the lack of analysis and focus on operational efficiency when it comes to understanding all aspects of fraud prevention. Organisations spend a lot of time on improvements and removing am...
26 September 2018 /ai /security
Introduction How many of you think that e-commerce is come of age? A friend of mine was telling me how she finds browsing through 80,000 dresses online to find that one perfect dress for a date the most tedious thing to do. And rather prefers to go to one store with 20 limited and options and pick one dress that is the best from among them. The di...
19 July 2018 /ai
Varun Maggon Senior Business Consultant at CustomerXPs Software Pvt. Ltd.
Cybercrime continues to be an unending botheration for banks. While the focus of attempts and attacks until recently, tended to be on the banks’ customers (via card and account detail compromises), of late fraudsters have become more sophisticated and have raised the stakes. They have shifted their focus and are now directly targeting banks. They ...
02 April 2018 /payments /regulation
The wave of payments fraud that continues to sweep the globe shows no signs of receding, leaving the financial services community anxiously in search of reliable ways to stay one step ahead. Just as payment processing becomes faster, so too are the cyber attackers moving quickly to find new ways to compromise sensitive data, transactions, and infr...
28 March 2018 /security /payments
Ben Marsh CEO at iMeta Technologies
KYC is essential for two key reasons; the first is to ensure financial institutions are not enabling criminal activities and secondly to optimise important client relationships. It is now mandatory for all firms to be able to demonstrate that watertight KYC procedures are in place across every department within the organisation. Compliance needs t...
13 February 2018 /wholesale
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