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09
Aug

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

Maya Fudim / August 9, 2026
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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 […]

04
Aug

BioCatch acquired by Visa for $2.4B

Ronen Shnidman / August 4, 2026
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Visa announced yesterday that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire the behavioral biometrics anti-fraud solution provider BioCatch in an all-cash deal for $2.4 billion. The transaction is expected to close by the end of Visa’s second fiscal quarter in 2027. BioCatch’s acquisition by Visa is expected to help the latter’s clients better protect […]

22
Jul

Insurance Fraud: It Starts With the Lack of an Identity Check

Randall Casciello / July 22, 2026
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Most people see insurance fraud as a time-of-claim problem not an identity check issue. A collision staged by bad actors, lost contents claim padded by non-existent belongings, a suspicious birth certificate, or a truckload of cargo that got lost after leaving the warehouse. Much of that fraud actually starts before a claim is filed — […]

04
Jul

Identiq Identity Verification Solution Acquired by Incode for Undisclosed Sum

Ronen Shnidman / July 4, 2026
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Incode Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based anti-fraud platform for identity and age verification, announced at the end of June that it had acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based identity verification startup. The terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed, although Incode said in its press release revealing the acquisition that it was part […]

07
Jun

Billing Identity Theft: When Healthcare Providers Become Victims

Randall Casciello / June 7, 2026
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Healthcare fraud is usually focused on how the providers perpetrate the theft and less on how they are also victims – of billing identity theft. A less talked about crime, billing identity theft is when service provider credentials are used as a means for crooks to perpetrate their crimes against healthcare payers. Fraudsters hijack a […]

14
May

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Ronen Shnidman / May 14, 2026
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Digital identity verification as a market is expected to exceed $29 billion by 2030, growing 55% from $19 billion in 2026, according to a study by global tech strategy consultancy Juniper Research. A whitepaper released last week by Juniper Research dubbed digital identity verification as one of the fastest-evolving areas of fraud prevention. The report […]

02
Mar

Pick Your Battles with Identity Deception

Maya Fudim / March 2, 2026
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The global economy in 2026 is transitioning to the full digitalization of goods and services, and the gap between a fraudster’s technological toolkit and a company’s defensive methodology is widening at an industrial scale. While data spoofing and human engineering have become highly sophisticated, many organizations are still fighting 21st-century exploits with 20th-century enforcement. This […]

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

BioCatch acquired by Visa for $2.4B

Insurance Fraud: It Starts With the Lack of an Identity Check

Identiq Identity Verification Solution Acquired by Incode for Undisclosed Sum

Billing Identity Theft: When Healthcare Providers Become Victims

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Pick Your Battles with Identity Deception

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