Incremental Learning: The Real-Time Hero Taking on Fraud

In the fast-moving world of merchant fraud, we can no longer rely on the past to predict the future. The speed and scale of change is such that traditional machine learning (ML) methods, which analyze historical fraud trends, can’t keep up.

Emerging Forms of Payments Fraud and How to Tackle Them

In the first half of 2021, the UK lost £753.9 million to fraud, an increase of 30 percent compared to H1 2020, according to the most recent report by UK Finance. The report also revealed that banks using more advanced security systems were able to prevent an additional £736 million from being stolen.

Why Incremental Learning Is a Gamechanger for Payments Fraud

Any innovation that helps merchants outfox fraudsters can’t come soon enough. An innovative, industry-first approach to machine learning, incremental learning represents a step change in fraud prevention. It identifies patterns earlier and more accurately, automating decisions and actions to keep merchants better protected than ever.

Is Fraud Friction Dampening Your Holiday Sales?

Keeping checkout friction low is always an issue for merchants seeking to boost conversion, but even more so during the holiday season, when offers and promotions aim to pull in new customers and drive higher sales.

Ringing Out Against Mobile Fraud

As peak season fast approaches, more people of all ages will be powering up their phones to browse and buy.

Data Is Evolving – Are Your Fraud Prevention Services Keeping Pace?

It’s a constant struggle – as consumer behavior evolves, so do fraud tactics, as fraudsters seek vulnerabilities exposed by rapid change. And there’s no disputing that the pandemic has changed consumer behavior and accelerated the adoption of digital payment methods.

Getting Medieval: A (Modern) Multilayered Approach to Payments Security

PCI compliance is a detailed and grueling process for a reason; fraudsters will exploit any weakness they can uncover. History has shown that even major merchants that consumers would assume are fully protected can get breached.

Payments Orchestration: Music to the Ears of Merchants?

Payments orchestration is about maximizing payment conversion in the most cost effective way. It involves working with multiple payment providers, acquirers and banks to optimize the customer experience, increase conversions, ensure regulatory compliance, enhance fraud prevention and enable global payments coverage.

Big Data, Bigger Potential: How Retailers Can Benefit From Payment Analytics

Our lives are now subjected to more statistical analysis than ever before.

A Comprehensive Strategy for Fighting Gaming Fraud

By and large, video games are based around the principle of good guy versus bad guy. To defeat the bad guy(s), the good guy generally must deploy a multitude of weapons and devices through various levels, while not suffering too much damage.

Amazon Prime Day: We All Love a Good Bargain… So Do Fraudsters

Each year, Amazon’s Prime Day event proves to be even more successful than the last in terms of sales volume. And this year was no exception.

Could Increased Fraud Make the Mobile Payments Boom a Revenue Bust for Merchants?

Mobile payments are fast becoming mainstream, with ACI merchant customers seeing 30 percent of all eCommerce transactions in 2020 being made on mobile devices. In the United States, adoption is higher, with 42 percent of eCommerce transactions in 2020 on mobile – that’s a year-on-year growth rate of 55 percent.