Financial institutions (FIs) are grappling with sophisticated authorized and unauthorized scams that are fueled by payments innovation and higher transaction volumes. With instant payments gaining worldwide adoption, real-time monitoring is the key to stopping trending scams—but that’s not the only trend to plan...
Blue check scams, quishing, tech support, homograph attacks, and travel scams abound this holiday season. Fraud tactics are more personalized and harder to detect, competition is steeper, and regulatory scrutiny is ballooning.
In this eBook, we’ll take a look at how real-time fraud detection and real-time...
PSR shift in liability adds another dimension of complexity for financial institutions (FIs) combatting sophisticated APP fraud scams and new account fraud. Not only is it more challenging for FIs to protect themselves and customers, that liability shift could have deep revenue impact.
Why is NICE Actimize ranked the highest-scoring enterprise fraud management (EFM) vendor on Quadrant Knowledge Solution’s 2023 SPARK Matrix™? Because end-to-end fraud prevention across the entire customer life cycle doesn’t just achieve robust fraud detection and prevention—it improves operational efficiency...
Until now there has been an ongoing struggle regarding who owns the money mules and scams problem – Credit Risk, AML (KYC), or Fraud Management? With liabilities shifting, ownership is clearly landing on the shoulders of Fraud Management teams. Fraud leaders must act quickly or risk losing revenue, their reputation,...
In the aftermath of the pandemic and global political unrest, the risks of identity and credential theft have surged, and a deluge of scams are exploiting the crisis. Consumers facing disrupted incomes seek credit solutions, and fraudsters seek to exploit them by using application fraud tactics.
Fraudsters are always looking for new ways to shift funds from their schemes into their accounts—that’s where mules come in. Until now, there’s never been a real-time solution for detecting money mule activity. Download this comprehensive guide to uncover the strategies for detecting mule-related accounts,...
A U.S. couple is set to file a plea deal for their role in laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency from the Bitfinex virtual currency exchange in 2016. Federal prosecutors say they moved crypto to hide their tracks, withdrew it from ATMs and used gift cards to spend the money.
This Case Study talks about how when E-Commerce organization Pat Pat’s business grew their true fraud chargeback fees and losses also started to increase.
They found it difficult to distinguish between their trusted users and fraudulent behaviour of bad actors and found it hard to keep up with the amount of...
Transaction monitoring must keep up with the multiple and fast-moving risks of today’s world. In addition to the many typologies by which criminals push illicit funds through the financial system, financial institutions are challenged to effectively counter the myriad of risks around black swan events, ESG crimes,...
The world is moving on from magnetic stripe payment cards, with one notable exception: the United States. Credit card issuers, banks and consumers agree the magnetic stripe is prone to hacking - so why is one of the largest markets for plastic payment still clinging to decades-old technology?
Is your organization ready for the new PCI DSS 4.0 Standard? If you’re already compliant with the most recent version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), you’ve probably already begun transitioning to version 4.0 ahead of the upcoming deadline. To help you make the journey easier and...
Mule accounts have become an increasingly prevalent element of fraudulent schemes, acting as the primary pathway for moving funds from various sources of fraud, such as scams, check fraud, account takeovers, and authorized push payment (APP) fraud, into the accounts of fraudsters themselves. Startlingly, our research...
An Indian court convicted 11 people for their roles in the North Korean heist of $13.5 million in 2018 from Pune-based Cosmos Cooperative Bank. The United Nations attributed the thefts to North Korea, which uses criminal activity, including financially motivated hacking, to obtain hard currency.
Everyone knows why criminals rob banks. But since most robbers are operating remotely, which tactics are cybercriminals actually employing and how often are they successful? Too often, it seems, thanks to phishing attacks, money laundering, ATM skimmers, malware and more.
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