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Fast ways to improve your bank savings

May 30, 2018

The Punch Newspaper - Banking online makes you smarter and safer? -- Yes, it saves time (nearly two hours a month, according to Javelin Strategy & Research). But banking online also makes you smarter, because it puts you in control: You don...

What a homegrown app for millennials has taught Wells Fargo

May 22, 2018

American Banker - “It's an effort that mixes personal finance management and positive reinforcement, ingredients that may help banks overcome the wall they run into when it comes to mobile banking,” said Emmett Higdon, director of mobile...

E-commerce fraud prompts more processors to offer chargeback guarantees

May 21, 2018

PaymentsSource - Shopify's hardly alone. Fraud guarantees have become increasingly popular, with providers such as Forter, Riskified and Vesta offering similar services for different merchant segments, said Al Pascual, senior vice...

Government Should ‘Stop Pretending’ Your Social Security Number is Secret

May 17, 2018

Nextgov - Last year (2017) identity theft cost Americans $16.8 billion, according to Javelin Strategy and Research.

Google Duplex's gift for gab could be gift for hackers, too

May 16, 2018

American Banker - Many observers complained that in the demo, Google Duplex seemed too human, that it could trick people. “It is potentially deceptive,” said Jacob Jegher, senior vice president of banking and head of strategy at Javelin...

Machine learning will fail to stop fraud by itself

May 11, 2018

PaymentsSource - Javelin Strategy & Research’s research shows that in 2017 alone, 6.64% of consumers became victims of identity fraud, an increase of over one million victims from the previous year.

Faster Payments: Effective Fraud Mitigation Strategies

May 8, 2018

Bank Info Security - "Payments are evolving quickly, and if we don't adjust how we approach fraud, then we will fall further and further behind criminals," says Al Pascual, senior vice president of research and head of fraud and security at...

Online Fraud Soared 30% In 2017, Double The Rate Of E-commerce Sales

May 7, 2018

Value Walk - Though the U.S. transition to EMV technology has helped reduce point-of-sale (POS) card fraud, CNP fraud has continued to escalate. Javelin Strategy & Research projected that POS losses would decline from $6 billion to just...

Is Your Child One of the Million Child-Identity-Theft Victims of 2017?

May 2, 2018

The Street - "Child-identity fraud is a serious problem and is frequently overlooked as the public focuses on high-profile breaches involving the personally identifiable information of adults," says Al Pascual, head of fraud and security...

Google and Amazon to power voice banking trend

May 2, 2018

Fintech Innovation - A new report from the research firm titled, Smart Speaker Banking Must Overcome Digital Inertia, recommends that large banks support emerging capabilities from Amazon and Google, while advising smaller institutions to play...