Why BNPL Growth Comes With a Fraud Problem As inflation and economic uncertainty push consumers to stretch their budgets, more ecommerce platforms offer…
Fraud Protection
From Steel-Enforced Walls to Quantum Physics—A History of Fraud Prevention for Banking and Payments and How Merchants Protect Themselves Today
The war waged between financial institutions and thieves began long ago. It started with metal bars on bank teller windows, three-foot thick doors, and…
Machine Learning 101—What Merchants Need to Know About Fraud Protection
For many ecommerce merchants, understanding machine learning and its application to security management takes a back seat to managing supply chains,…
The Match List: Are You On It And What Can You Do About It
What Is the MATCH List? MATCH — Mastercard Alert to Control High-Risk Merchants — is a database maintained by Mastercard that records merchants whose…
How to Make Returns and Chargebacks Work for Your Brand
A customer once had a subscription order arrive after they’d already canceled it. Rather than make the customer ship a bag of dog food back across the…
Customers Are Now the Biggest Fraud Threat to Merchants—How to Fight Friendly Fraud
What Is Friendly Fraud? Friendly fraud — sometimes called first-party misuse or first-party fraud — happens when a legitimate cardholder makes a…
Cartis Payments’ Arsenal of Tools/Services to Protect Against Fraudulent Transactions
Fraud Prevention Isn’t One Tool, It’s a Stack Ecommerce fraud isn’t shrinking. The Nilson Report put global card fraud losses at $33.41 billion in 2024,…
Reducing the Risk of Fraud with 3D Secure 2.0
Why Card-Not-Present Fraud Is Still a Top Priority Online and card-not-present purchases remain the primary target for payment fraud. Card-not-present…
