Fraud & Security

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures, a developer of technology for switching card-based transactions. Cranium will become part of ACI’s Connetic for Cards payments-orchestration unit, launched in March. ACI says its various units process more than 300 billion card transactions per year. Terms of the deal, which …

First-party fraud, often called friendly fraud, is the bane of online retailers. Chargeback management provider Chargebacks911 says friendly fraud accounts for 43.8% of total chargebacks in its 2026 Field Report. Relying on responses from more than 250 merchants, the report also finds 83.4% of enterprise merchants reported an increase in …

Nasdaq Verafin, a developer of fraud-prevention technology, and Q6 Cyber, a supplier of fraud intelligence, have paired to offer a service to financial institutions that the parties say helps identify and respond faster to scam threats on the dark Web as they are developing. The partnership, announced early Thursday, is …

Visa Inc. announced the latest version of its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, which the card network says will help reduce the time between the discovery and resolution of fraud-attack paths. Some resolution times can be cut from weeks to hours, Visa says. Payments-technology company CARD91 launched SpendFlow, a commercial card program it says …

Miracle Pay, a provider of payments technology for merchants, said it will work with zerohash, a provider of cryptocurrency technology, to enable stablecoin acceptance at both physical and online merchants. At the point of sale, consumers will use crypto wallets on their phones to fund transactions. A survey of 1,000 consumers …

Fraud-detection provider Accertify said it has gained HIPAA compliance, allowing the company to offer more services to health-care organizations. Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said it now offers point-of-sale products for card-present payments integrated with Visa Acceptance Solutions.  Centerbase, a software provider to law firms, said it has integrated the electronic billing technology BillSync …

A new report from Experian appears to illuminate a key issue for artificial intelligence in commerce. Consumers may be more comfortable using it for product discovery, comparisons, and recommendations, but many lack trust in handing AI financial-services decisions. Experian, in its 11th annual Identity and Fraud Report, found that 31% …

Chargebacks have plagued the card-payments economy for years, leading payments providers to seek solutions, often to no avail. The latest move involves subscriptions, with Recurly early Thursday announcing an integration with Justt, a company that helps sellers manage chargebacks, to reduce losses on a problem that drains significant revenue for …

Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced it has a reseller agreement with Visa Platform Connect, a service that lets acquirers and independent software vendors link directly to the Visa Acceptance Platform and VisaNet. Ninety-one percent of Canadian consumers fear their online data could be used to make impersonation easier or disclose answers to …

Clients of Fiserv Inc. will reach 12 billion bank accounts and mobile wallets for payouts in more than 140 countries through a collaboration between the processor and cross-border payments platform Thunes, the parties announced. Xsolla, which supports payments for videogame players, said it has added more than 15 local payment methods worldwide …