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Outsmarting First-Party Fraud with a More Proactive Solution
February 27, 2024

The term fraud has become a catch-all for some financial institutions, which sometimes downplay these occurrences as mere nuisances rather than genuine threats. However, the stark reality is that fr

Beyond Rip and Replace: Alternatives for Modernizing Core Banking
February 22, 2024

As real-time payments expand globally, financial institutions confront the challenge of modernizing their legacy systems to meet the digital expectations of their customers. The positive aspect is tha

Laying the Groundwork for Open Banking
February 20, 2024

Open banking continues to spread worldwide and is heading for the United States, in what some have been calling its smartphone moment. The infrastructure is falling into place to support open bankin

Automating Reconciliations and Optimizing Operations: The Keys to Scale
February 15, 2024

Businesses often recognize that their success hinges on their ability to scale and expand. However, many businesses dont anticipate the tightening of their profit margins on this journey to expansion

Same Day, B2B Payments Fuel Growth of ACH Network
February 14, 2024

In 2023, the ACH Network added more than a billion and a half new payments, a year-over-year growth rate of 4.8%. With the economy doing reasonably well, employment levels being high, and payments con

The Next Phase of Dispute Resolution
February 13, 2024

No one, from merchants to processors to customers, likes handling disputed payments. Visa Compelling Evidence 3.0 (CE 3.0) intends to reduce these pain points. It provides a standardized framework for

Collaborative Efforts Are Needed to Combat Fraud
February 08, 2024

Faster and larger transaction flows have transformed the financial space into a lucrative superhighway, where bad actors can sweep in undetected and make off with substantial and ill-gotten gains. Amo

Adopting Instant Issuance Programs Give FIs a Competitive Edge
February 07, 2024

With consumers growing demand for instant payments, convenience, and immediacy, instant issuance just makes sense. Providing a personalized, on-demand, active debit and credit card that promotes top-

Navigating The P2P Minefield
February 06, 2024

Financial institutions are increasingly navigating a sea of scams and fraud. With the evolution of emerging technologies, new avenues for attack have opened, leaving banks, credit unions, and their ac

Fighting Payments Fraud in a World of Social Media and AI
February 01, 2024

Payment processing is much more seamless now than it was even a few years ago.The pandemic accelerated the pace of digitizing payments, and peer-to-peer payment networks continue to grow in popularit