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The pre-workshops and part of the first day at ATPS 2009 focused on fraud. Here’s a round up of my impressions after a full day of panel discussion, presentations, and breakout sessions. Once the presentations are up on the ATPS site I will provide links to each speaker’s deck. Presentations are here.
According to 41st Parameter, [...]
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The Airlines & Travel Payments Summit 2009 held a preconference session on fraud yesterday.
Managing online fraud is a significant cost for carriers around the world. CyberSource’s Paul Brock spoke on improving automation to increase fraud detection. The key to identifying fraud is finding common characteristics, which can be used in automated detection and defining manual [...]
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Note: this commentary could be subtitled: “How my trip to the U.K. left me with a chip on my shoulder!”
When I was a child, I remember preparing for international travel by accompanying my parents to our local bank branch to purchase traveler’s checks. It wasn’t exactly convenient – but they felt safer traveling [...]
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Last week, I was thinking a bit about the many issues of fraud in the card payments world and how the lack of a business case within the industry itself has slowed adoption of various technologies that could be deployed to reduce fraud. It struck me that the old but well proven idea about [...]
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While we naturally tend to focus on all of the innovative things that have happened in payments over the years – brought to us by upstanding companies and institutions – there’s also a dark side to innovation that sometimes is the elephant in the room.
I’m talking about the innovations that fraudsters continually cook up to [...]
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Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com).
Ridge focused on managing risk in environment of uncertainty. He cited ties fraud to [...]
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