August 16, 2026
APP Scams

Instant Payments, Instant Losses: A Data Science Approach for the Era of APP Scams

For years, banks fought fraud by answering a main question: Is the person initiating this payment really who they claim to be? The industry’s largest investments in fraud prevention, from device fingerprinting and behavioral biometrics to multi-factor authentication and machine learning, were all designed to improve the confidence of that prediction. Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams […]

Authorized push payment fraud (APP fraud)

APP Fraud and the New Dispute System You Can’t Ignore

Most chargeback conversations stay inside one lane: card networks, issuer rules, merchant liability and dispute rates. But since October 2024, there’s been a second dispute system operating in the UK, built from scratch, running outside the card networks entirely, and already generating the same incentive problems the credit card chargeback world has spent decades wrestling […]