Digital fraud is one of the most pressing issues facing the banking sector, with fraudsters deploying a vast array of methods to target financial institutions (FIs) and their customers. Loan fraud complaints totaled 17,349 in Q1 2020 compared to 4,416 complaints during the same period...
Financial crime and other forms of digital fraud are a pressing concern for banks, credit unions and other FIs, with fraudsters stealing $2.8 billion from bank accounts in 2018. Banks are devoting time, money and effort to prevent this type of fraud, which stopped $22.3...
Consumers want a speedy, Amazon-like experience when creating accounts with their banks, but keeping fraudsters from slipping in among genuine users can be a challenge. In the FI Fraud Decisioning Playbook, John Kelly, chief administrative officer at Pentagon Federal Credit Union, discusses why financial institutions...
More consumers are turning to the omnichannel offerings of banks and credit unions (CUs) as they follow stay-at-home mandates, and cybercriminals are eager to launch attacks that make use of these channels. Account takeovers (ATOs) rose 347 percent from 2018 to 2019 — a problem...
May 04, 2020
Financial institutions (FIs) face tough decisions when trying to keep their clients safe. Customers and merchants rely on their banks and credit unions (CUs) to ensure they have secure, convenient online transactions, and many FIs work to detect fraud by looking for abnormal purchasing behaviors that could indicate something is amiss. Seeing consumers’ cards suddenly used […]
July 16, 2019
Criminals are not the only elements that can vex financial institutions when it comes to protecting against money laundering. False positives — instances of potential but uncertain fraud — can...
November 21, 2017
Card not present (CNP) fraud is on the rise. Fraudsters are adept and adapting to the paths of least resistance when it comes to scamming merchants, issuers and consumers. But...
