payments fraud

Could US unemployment payment fraud tsunami hit $100 billion-plus?

By Jeff Domansky

July 26, 2021

Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

By Jeff Domansky Ramped up demand for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Fraud detection budget cuts during previous low unemployment. Federal and state governments failure to take widespread ...

Payments news roundup: Pulse Network, Stripe vs PayPal, mobile fraud, more

By Jeff Domansky

September 14, 2018

We’ve got a payments news roundup with news you can use from around the globe. Pulse Network looks at some of the reasons Apple Pay is gaining with ...

Research: Mobile fraud attacks rise 44% in US

By Jeff Domansky

September 11, 2018

Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce Mobile Payments Payments Research Payments Trends Slider

We all know the impact of the rapid rise of mobile transactions on e-commerce businesses. According to ThreatMetrix, in the last three years, mobile transactions have grown three times ...

Synthetic identity fraud is rising; data breaches abound

By Jeff Domansky

August 23, 2018

Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce Payments Research Slider

Synthetic identity fraud is a growing, evolving challenge for merchants. It arises when criminals combine real or stolen personal data with fake information to create new identities, open ...

Cost of chargebacks in 2017? $31 billion

By Jeff Domansky

May 22, 2018

Chargebacks E-commerce Payments Research Retail Slider

According to a new report, The Chargeback Triangle from Javelin Strategy & Research and Verifi, merchants lost $19 billion to chargebacks in 2017. Issuers lost another $12 billion ...

SWIFT payments; IKEA VR shopping; UK shoppers ready for wearables payments

By Jeff Domansky

March 31, 2018

E-commerce Payments Research Payments Trends Slider

We’ve got three interesting global payments stories to carry you into the weekend, starting with an attempted hack on Malaysian central bank via the SWIFT network. Next, we ...