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U.K. fraudsters seek to export their tactics to the U.S.

June 21, 2019

PaymentsSource -  “There’s more sophistication to all things digital today than there once were. So all things online is increasingly up for grabs. We’re seeing that everywhere,” said Al Pascual, head of security for Javelin. 

Amazon’s 1-Day Delivery Puts Rivals in a Box on Fraud

June 14, 2019

Barron's -  Merchants lost $19 billion in chargebacks in 2017, per Javelin Strategy & Research’s recent report, The Chargeback Triangle 

Where did JPMorgan Chase's Finn experiment go wrong?

June 6, 2019

American Banker  -  Emmett Higdon, director of digital banking at Javelin Strategy & Research, suggested that digital-first brands have to offer something unique beyond traditional banks’ apps. 

New payment models are unsafe without interoperable digital ID

May 13, 2019

PaymentsSource -  lenders lost $6.4 billion to credit card fraud and $4 billion to account takeovers in 2018, according to Javelin Strategy and Research. Though these figures are actually lower than 2016, they’re still painful—as are the...

Why Rewards for Loyal Spenders Are ‘a Honey Pot for Hackers’

May 11, 2019

The New York Times  -  As a share of fraud not involving a physical payment card, such schemes more than doubled from 2017 to 2018, according to the Javelin Strategy & Research firm. 

Fighting Back Against Tech-Savvy Fraudsters

May 9, 2019

Dark Reading  -  According to Javelin Strategy & Research's "2019 Identity Fraud Study," in 2018, 17% of account takeover victims had their mobile phone account compromised, compared with 10% in 2017. 

Resolve launches as a B2B online financing service

May 8, 2019

Digital Commerce 360 -  “The digital experience is starting to move downstream in B2B. Offering online financing to B2B buyers is another step forward in the trend of bringing more ecommerce features to B2B websites and portals". 

Americans Have So Many Subscriptions They Need Apps to Track and Cancel Them

May 7, 2019

Bloomberg Businessweek -  “Every week it’s like there’s a new subscription we’ve signed up for and the bank account is drained by the end of it,” said Mark Schwanhausser, director of digital banking at research firm Javelin Strategy. The...

Will telecoms' tighter data sharing cripple banks' fraud detection efforts?

April 29, 2019

American Banker -  “Few data sets create as much assurance during a transaction as location data culled from cellphones,” 

'Friendly fraud' is on the rise. Are banks complicit?

March 19, 2019

American Banker -  According to a study from Javelin Strategy & Research, friendly fraud doubled in 2018, from 7% to 15% of all fraud victims. All told, 14.4 million Americans were fraud victims in 2018.