Episode 167 – Combating Fraud – Patrick Chen, Spec

In this episode of Payments on Fire®, Yvette Bohanan is joined by Patrick Chen, co-founder of Spec, to discuss payments risk, fraud, and the age-old question of good versus evil. Listen in to hear how organizations can combat fraud while still providing the best...

Episode 45 – False Declines and Ethoca’s Role

In e-commerce and mobile commerce the problem of false declines is significant, especially during the holidays. Issuers decline transactions that online merchants approve. And vice versa. In other words, the necessary process of sorting out fraud from good...

Machine Learning in Fraud Management

Machine learning and the broader category of artificial intelligence are rightly attracting attention and discussion. These are powerful technologies. But, like many new technology conversations, there’s the suggestion that they can address all use cases. Maybe...

PoF 22 – Ethoca and the Power of Data Collaboration

The domain of point of sale (POS) has three legs to its security stool: EMV, point to point encryption, and card number tokenization. Card not present (CNP) merchants and issuers have the more challenging task of assembling fraud mitigation tools on their own. The...