Beyond Compliance: Rewiring Fraud Prevention for Faster Payments
What's happening
Payments are getting faster but fraud detection is lagging, and criminals are using AI to exploit that gap. A PYMNTS Intelligence and Plaid study found 47% of firms cannot detect suspected fraud in real time or within minutes, even though 90% use rules-based scoring and 83% use other defenses. Coverage warns that AI lets attackers automate identity creation and credential-testing at machine speed, enabling convincing fake vendors and scaled account takeover through stolen credentials, phishing and social engineering. Firms are being pushed to treat fraud as a continuous, post-onboarding problem that shows up at login, account recovery and high-risk transactions.
Why it's trending
Because real-time payments and AI-driven attacks are converging, creating a timing and capability gap for existing fraud controls.
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If you think rules-based scoring and more rules will stop AI-driven fraud, think again, 47% of firms still can't spot suspected fraud in real time despite 90% using rules-based scoring.
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- Beyond Compliance: Rewiring Fraud Prevention for Faster Payments
Not long ago, creating a fake vendor convincing enough to fool a seasoned finance team would have required significant effort and expertise. Today, a few prompts can generate identities, documents, emails, and even video needed to make a fictional business look remarkably real. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the fraud landscape. Bad actors can now […] The post Beyond Compl
PaymentsJournalAug 20 - AI-Powered fraud surges as criminals operate at machine speed
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the economics of online fraud, allowing criminals to automate attacks, exploit stolen identities and test compromised payment credentials at a scale that would previously have... read more The post AI-Powered fraud surges as criminals operate at machine speed appeared first on Payments Industry Intelligence .
Payments Industry IntelligenceAug 19 - Webinar: When Account Takeover Moves Past Onboarding
Account takeover shows why fraud risk cannot be treated as an onboarding problem. Fraudsters are using stolen credentials, phishing and social engineering to get into real customer accounts, then move money, change account details or steal sensitive data. Banks see that pressure most clearly at login, account recovery and high risk transactions. The challenge is [...] The post Webinar: When Accoun
Fintech News SingaporeAug 19 - Plaid Study Links Account Checks to Faster Fraud Detection
Payments have spent years getting faster. Fraud detection has not always kept pace. New August research from PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with Plaid, shows that 47% of firms surveyed can’t detect suspected fraud in real time or within minutes. That is despite widespread use of sophisticated defenses: 90% use rules-based scoring before authorization, 83% use […] The post Plaid Study
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