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Tokens See Double Duty as Protection From Fraud and Transaction Failures
Tokens See Double Duty as Protection From Fraud and Transaction Failures
June 10, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Network tokenization, a technology that replaces sensitive payment card data with unique digital identifiers, has been a hot topic of late. Long known as an...

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Visa Extends Risk Management Solutions to Non-Visa Transactions
Visa Extends Risk Management Solutions to Non-Visa Transactions
March 27, 2024  |  VISA

As real-time and account-to-account transactions rise and payments fraud continues to rise with them, Visa is putting artificial intelligence (AI) to work. The company announced...

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Preventive Measures Pay Off as Merchants Fight Surging Chargebacks
Preventive Measures Pay Off as Merchants Fight Surging Chargebacks
March 14, 2024  |  Credit Cards

Chargebacks have long been a thorny issue for merchants. And as transactions become increasingly digitized, chargebacks have in turn become more prevalent. They not only...

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PayPal’s Magats: Digital Shift Forces New Focus On Auth Rates —  And New Ways To Boost Them
PayPal’s Magats: Digital Shift Forces New Focus On Auth Rates — And New Ways To...
July 02, 2020  |  Digital Payments

If you’re an online merchant, you may be all too familiar with this drill. A shopper finds you online, finds a product to buy, fills...

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Data Sharing: The Magic Merchants Need To Smooth The SCA Speed Bumps
Data Sharing: The Magic Merchants Need To Smooth The SCA Speed Bumps
January 22, 2020  |  Regulation

The rollout of PSD2’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) has been a bit bumpy, to say the least. A year ago (when the rollout was still...

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Reserve Bank Of India Provides Guidelines For Payment Systems
Reserve Bank Of India Provides Guidelines For Payment Systems
October 15, 2019  |  International

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set forth guidelines for “on tap” authorization for various payment systems, including the Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit...

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Mastercard’s Threat Scan Helps Banks Detect Vulnerabilities
Mastercard’s Threat Scan Helps Banks Detect Vulnerabilities
October 01, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Mastercard has launched Threat Scan, a global solution to help banks spot authorization weaknesses before a breach occurs, the company announced in a press release...

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Visa, AI And The $25B Fraudsters Never Got
Visa, AI And The $25B Fraudsters Never Got
June 18, 2019  |  VISA

Cybercrime is both pervasive and expensive, as modern problems go. According to reports, citing the University of Maryland, there is an attempted hack every 39...

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How Payments Help The Sharing Economy Run On Trust
How Payments Help The Sharing Economy Run On Trust
April 08, 2019  |  Digital Payments

All those children’s TV shows and stories lied: Sharing is not easy. Sharing is, in fact, enormously complex, prone to fraud and frustration, at least...

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