Fraud & Identity Management
Quite a scary new (although in some ways old) form of identity theft in the headlines recently. Here’s a link to the article, which talks...
By: Kennis Wong In the last post, I emphasized the importance of fraud detection even after an account has been approved. If information...
By: Kennis Wong Most lenders authenticate applicants before they extend credit. With identity theft so prevalent today, not ensuring you are dealing with the real...
By: Kristan Frend It seems as though desperate times call for desperate measures- with revenues down and business loans tougher than ever to get, “shelf”...
The overarching ‘business driver’ in adopting a risk-based authentication strategy, particularly one that is founded in analytics and proven scores, is the predictive ‘lift’...
By: Kristan Frend As if business owners need one more thing to worry about — according to the Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2010 Identity...
There are a number of people within the industry heralding the death of knowledge based authentication. To those people I would say, “In my humble...
A few days ago I saw an article about hackers working from Russia, while committing check fraud in the United States. In what those...
In “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Kristan Frend touched on the vulnerabilities faced by members of our Armed Services....
By: Kristan Frend Last week I came across a news article that said the NYPD arrested 26 people who allegedly took at least $5...
By: Kennis Wong Several weeks ago, I attended and presented at Experian’s sold-out annual conference, Vision, in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the guest speakers...
With the upcoming changes to overdraft fee policies coming to the banking industry July 1st, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, banks and credit unions...
I often provide fraud analyses to clients, whereby they identify fraudsters that have somehow gotten through the system. We then go in and see...
In case you’ve never heard of it, a Babel fish is a small translator; that allows a carrier to understand anything said in any...
We’ve blogged about fraud alerts, fraud analytics, fraud models and fraud best practices. Sometimes, though, we delude ourselves into thinking that fraud prevention strategies we put...