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How A Local Lens For Risk Analysis Can Fight Global Money Laundering And Fraud

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These concerns are a focus for Global Payments, a worldwide payments processor that includes eCommerce payment processing brands eWay and Ezidebit in Australia and New Zealand. Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart.

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How COVID-19 Complicates SCA Compliance For eCommerce Players Worldwide

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Under the new SCA rules, merchants will need to be able to securely authenticate every customer before authorizing eCommerce transactions. Sevounts notes that in the world of low-risk, low-price transactions, the “cure” of preventing fraud can often be worse than the “disease” in terms of scaring off good customers.

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AI Helps Fashion eTailers Boost Cross-Border Sales

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Crafting streamlined eCommerce checkouts for international customers requires merchants to tailor their payments experiences to the needs and preferences of each market. POPs can also provide merchants with other, related assistance like risk analysis and support fo r managing transaction flows.

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SMB Funding Embraces The Open Banking Way

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FinTech partners include small business credit risk analysis company AccountScore and small business data company Codat. ThinCats Links Up With Open Banking FinTech Salt Edge.

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Meeting The New Challenge Of Rolling Out PSD2 And SCA

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Long before anyone had ever heard of the coronavirus or social distancing, eCommerce was slowly and steadily making progress and eating into the physical retail share of the shopping landscape. The coronavirus pandemic, for all its horrors, is going to be an opportunity for eCommerce merchants large and small.

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As The SCA Deadline Approaches, Issuers Struggle With Preparedness

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These nascent online shoppers represent a “brilliant market opportunity for every eCommerce company that’s able to give those customers a good experience and make them lifelong customers,” said McLain. Acquirers, he said, are obligated by the new regulations to perform transaction risk analysis. The X (Border) Factor.

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Payments Execs Weigh In On Innovation For The Roaring 2020s

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Call it the sunsetting of the 2010s, an opportune time to preview everything from eCommerce to artificial intelligence (AI), from A to Z — here, we can term it APIs to Zelle. No matter the application, risk analysis is crucial, especially in an age when know your customer (KYC) is as much a mandate as it is good business sense.