27 Oct 21 @ 11:43

New data released by the payments industry self-regulatory body, Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), has shown a slight increase in online card fraud in 2020 as the shift to online payments... read more

23 Dec 20 @ 11:17

UK banks achieved the biggest reduction in card fraud losses last year among 18 countries across Europe, according to the updated FICO European Fraud Map. More than half of the... read more

19 Oct 20 @ 03:11

Data released by the Australian payments industry’s self-regulating body, the Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet) has revealed a 19.5 percent decline in card fraud in 2019, the biggest decline since fraud... read more

13 Feb 20 @ 07:06

Driven by the hardening of regulatory frameworks and an increase in prevention techniques, significant improvements in plastic card fraud have been recorded in multiple markets across Europe. For example, the... read more

14 Oct 19 @ 08:52

Skyrocketing Card-Not-Present (CNP) fraud numbers, card theft and ID theft – plus the revelation of a single fraud case involving a Federal Government agency in which up to AUD 99... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 11:29

Researchers at the premier dark web data intelligence company, Terbium Labs, have released the findings of new research that examines the deeply intertwined nature of payment card fraud and transnational crime. Results... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:52

In June 2018, Indian police in Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, broke the back of a card fraud and cloning racket that involved waiters at bars and restaurants across the... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out measures to tackle fraud on contactless cards which have been reported lost or stolen. In a letter to the treasury select committee,... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 07:09

 CARD FRAUD RATES are on the rise in many parts of the world despite the widespread adoption of fraud analytics solutions by financial institutions and retailers, along with EMV in... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 07:47

Fraud losses are at record levels worldwide. Card fraud worldwide grew 19 percent last year compared to card sales which grew only 15 percent, according to figures released by the... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:46

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist. So said Keyser Söze (Usual Suspects), paraphrased from Baudelaire and others. Synthetic fraud is the... read more

02 May 24 @ 10:16

Current approaches have kept fraud at bay: but serious new threats in the digital channel plus digital growing as a proportion of the economy means we need a rethink. James... read more

14 Aug 23 @ 15:22

Amid the glare of red rockets, one imagines, the US has finally announced the launch of FedNow for July 2023.  57 US banks (out of some 14,000 with licenses in... read more

14 Aug 23 @ 15:20

The relentless storm of bad news about fraud won’t stop. Whether it’s this month’s JD Power survey claiming one in three Americans suffered debit card fraud last year, news from... read more

05 Apr 23 @ 09:56

Recent weeks have seen a slew of bad news about the ongoing scandal of rising payments fraud – especially in the online environment. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Oxford... read more

16 Feb 23 @ 14:27

First sight of European payments landscape for 23 PCM’s exclusive annual review of payments data from 33 European countries confirms the growth of online payments versus in-person, as well as... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 13:21

With a young, dynamic population and a growing economy, Brazil is a hot market for global payments players. But will endemic fraud problems and technical challenges blunt its attraction? There’s... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 11:51

The ‘return to normal’ from the pandemic in 2021 was uneven across the continent due to variances in vaccine rollout, resurgence of COVID infections, and policies regarding retail, travel and... read more

26 May 22 @ 09:18

As fraud attempts and cyber-security incidents continue to rise, more and better Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions are being touted as the solution. But does AI deliver on its promise? Two... read more

21 Apr 22 @ 09:43

In the context of huge global rises in online fraud attempts and straight-out thefts via digital scams, crypto has been hailed as a safe, secure and fast means of transferring... read more