Fraud

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How banks and fintechs can prepare for more fraud amid Silicon Valley Bank shutdown

By Tommy Nicholas on Mar 14, 2023

In response to SVB’s shutdown, many businesses are now opening new bank accounts and moving their money into them. As a result, you should expect to see a spike in new business account applications. Here's how to ensure your business onboarding processes are set up to detect and prevent new business account fraud.

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Why knowledge-based authentication (KBA) is not effective

By Charles Hearn on Mar 7, 2023

Alloy CTO, Charles Hearn, uses his own knowledge-based authentication (KBA) questions to prove why they are an not effective approach to identity verification.

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What is ambient fraud?

By Caroline Lu on Feb 27, 2023

The most common type of fraud is one you might not have heard of yet. Here’s how to identify and combat ambient fraud.

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Why collaboration is key to fighting fraud in 2023

By Tommy Nicholas on Feb 13, 2023

Alloy CEO Tommy Nicholas reacts to new State of Fraud Benchmark Report.

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Is fraud just another cost of doing business?

By Clint Heyworth on Jan 12, 2023

Many executives write off fraud as just another cost of operating their financial institution (FI). Fraud is, beyond a doubt, a “cost” all FIs must factor into revenue projections, but is it an inevitable cost that a financial services business must accept and account for—similar to office leases or employee salaries? Or is it something that financial services can actually strive to minimize—and even eliminate?

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How to approve more good customers

In this eBook, we explore how using multiple data source providers in your identity verification process can not only help you mitigate fraud risks, but also bring on more good customers.

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Fraud Startups announce $100B in new funding

By KJ McAlpin on Oct 20, 2022

Fraud Startups — the technologically savvy, well-funded, nimble, growth-oriented, and organized network of fraudsters — today announced they raised nearly $100B in a new funding round led by pandemic relief fraud. What are FIs doing about this?

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Behind the mask of third-party fraud

By Ricardo Wiesner on Oct 13, 2022

Third-party fraud poses a threat to banks and fintech companies. Not only are there multiple ways for fraudsters to get around your defenses—their methods are constantly evolving. Read on to learn how to stop this dangerous type of fraud.

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Synthetic identities: why fraudsters need imaginary friends

By Ricardo Wiesner on Sep 15, 2022

Synthetic identity fraud is a growing problem. Fraudsters go to extreme lengths to craft identities—complete with social security numbers, names, addresses, and even loyalty program memberships—which they then use to carry out complex (and often costly) fraud schemes. In this post, we dive into the how, the why, and the what you can do about it.

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Fraudsters adapt. So should your fraud prevention strategy.

By Yigit Yildirim on Sep 6, 2022

We asked Yigit Yildirim, Socure’s Vice President and Head of Fraud & Risk, to offer his perspective on the modern identity fraud stack, paths to optimize fraud efficacy, and consider how forward-thinking fraud teams should prepare for changing economic conditions.

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How to outsmart referral fraud

By Caroline Lu on Aug 24, 2022

Referral marketing can be a great approach to acquiring new customers. It can also open you up to referral fraud scams. We take a deep dive into referral fraud and share some tactics to prevent it.

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NFTs: fraud or the future?

By Carolyn Philip on Aug 22, 2022

NFTs are a misunderstood innovation. While they may seem like a speculative asset class, many more potential use cases exist. But fraud is unfortunately rampant, and it's important to understand what will drive positive (or increasingly risky) developments in this space.

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Fraud Q&A series: Protecting your organization from Card-Not-Present (CNP) Fraud with IDology

By Aisana Nurusheva on Aug 16, 2022

The latest guest in our fraud Q&A series exploring fraud trends in the financial services space is Christina Luttrell, CEO at GBG Americas. Christina explains why IDology is concerned about Card-Not-Present fraud and what they are doing to protect financial institutions from it.

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On the front lines of a fraud attack

By Sophie Shin on Aug 8, 2022

An Alloy Client Success Manager takes you through his first-hand experience helping one of our clients work through a fraud attack.

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Resources

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How to approve more good customers

Your guide to using multiple data sources for identity verification

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Your guide to build vs. buy

Discover which path forward is right for your organization's identity decisioning process

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The value of an identity decisioning platform

How to calculate the ROI

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