In The News

Credit Card Data Breaches: How to Handle Them

August 9, 2019

Yahoo! Finance  -  Data breaches are a likely reason for the dramatic increases in identity fraud in recent years. A 2018 study from Javelin Strategy & Research reports that 6.64% of consumers became identity fraud victims in 2017...

BankThink Safeguard data on kids, reap customer retention rewards

August 5, 2019

American Banker  -  A 2018 report released by Javelin Strategy & Research found that more than one million children were victims of identity fraud in 2017. The widespread damage included total losses of $2.6 billion and more than...

ID theft stings, but it's hard to pin on specific data hacks

August 3, 2019

ABC News -  “Fraud just comes out of the blue, and there’s no way to identify where it came from or what I could have done to prevent that. That’s why fraud can be emotionally challenging

A fintech innovation that may be hard for traditional banks to swallow

June 26, 2019

American Banker  -  “Money is certainly emotional and banks have a great responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to help guide those emotions,” Jacob Jegher, senior vice president of banking and head of strategy at Javelin Strategy...

A key reason for digital-only banking

June 23, 2019

American Banker -  Through data insights, "banks are initiating advice in a new way, but banks have to think about what they are actually advising a customer about," Schwanhausser said. "They're good at telling you about your...

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.