New Video Feature Dives into the Visa Rule Overhaul Haven’t done your research on Visa Claims Resolution yet? Visa Claims Resolution, or VCR for short, is the card association’s new global framework for initiating, processing, and resolving transaction disputes. Now you can throw everything you thought you knew about Visa chargebacks out the window, because VCR rebuilds the entire process …
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Can You Protect Your Smart Devices From Invasion? Here’s 4 Basic Tips to Get Started We’re all accustomed to taking certain security precautions with our computers, phones, and tablets by this point. We know to watch for phishing sites, change our passwords regularly, and to never give out sensitive information. Unfortunately, we don’t always use these strict standards regarding smart …
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As 2017 Winds Down, Let’s See How Far We’ve Come…and How Far We Have to Go. For most people, the New Year is a time for reflection. It gives us a marker by which we can measure how far we’ve progressed as individuals, and to look at where we are as a society.
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New Technologies, Standardization & Education are All Vital Components While we’re focused on the upcoming holiday season, we can’t forget about a very large shadow hanging over the festivities: Equifax. The biggest data hack in history compromised the identities of 145 million Americans; nearly half of the country’s population. The thieves gained access to consumers’ Social Security numbers, home addresses, …
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eCommerce Will Grow 16% During Holiday 2017—Are You Ready? It’s just about that time again. The year is winding down, and the holiday shopping season is upon us. According to the National Retail Federation, we can expect overall retail sales to rise between 3.2% and 3.8% during Q4 2017, reaching close to the $685 billion mark in the US. That’s …
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Up for “Most Innovative Woman” & “Female Executive of the Year” Honors Monica Eaton has been recognized once again as a finalist for the distinguished Stevie® Awards for Women in Business!
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Machine Learning is Just One Part of the Solution You could say that fraud and eCommerce security have a very roundabout, symbiotic relationship. As security tools and strategies improve, so do the schemes fraudsters employ to get around those roadblocks. In turn, these new threat sources create the need for new, more intelligent, and more dynamic responses. Unfortunately, this also …
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Exploring if—and When—We Might See the World’s First Cashless Economy Once seen as very improbable, the real possibility of the first “cashless society” is a hot discussion topic these days. Many speculate that the first economy to go completely digital will be India. Surprising, considering just 2% of all transactions in the country were non-cash less than five years ago. …
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Exploring One of the Fastest-Growing Online Fraud Threats Account takeover fraud, or ATF, is exactly what it sounds like: a fraudulent action involving the unauthorized use of a legitimate customer account, usually by phone or internet. In this situation, the word “takeover” doesn’t mean removing the account owner from the picture; in fact, quite the opposite. Having that legitimate customer …
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Will 3-D Secure End Fraud & Chargebacks Once & For All? EMVCo, the industry body that represents interests of the major card schemes, introduced 3-D Secure 2.0 back in October 2016. According to the organization, 3-D Secure 2.0 will improve the customer experience and deliver unmatched security. But will the technology really be as impressive as it sounds? The Benefits …
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