How a probabilistic approach to Know Your Customer mitigates synthetic identity fraud
As synthetic identity fraud continues to surge across industries, in particular affecting financial institutions, it’s vital that we come together to make better, more accurate predictions of fraud risk, using…
Ekata APAC Recognised as “FinTech of the Year” by AMTD DigFin
Ekata, a Mastercard company, is thrilled to announce that we have been named FinTech of the Year at the AMTD DigFin awards, organised by one of the top technology publications in…
Intersekt 2022 – Fintech fun: We came, we saw, we conquered
Two days of thought-provoking collaboration and discussion, unlocking the potential of Australia’s fintech market. Having attended the sixth edition of Intersekt in Melbourne, the APAC Ekata team is taking a…
Mastercard’s inaugural Cyber & Security Summit peaks in Melbourne & Sydney
No matter the industry, from ecommerce, digital payments, fintech, or financial services, cybersecurity concerns are ubiquitous. Collaboration is an industry priority. Fortunately, the omnipresence of cyber crime is one of…
Ekata engineering employees honored in award programs
We are thrilled to announce two Ekata team members were recently honored with awards for their contributions to Ekata’s engineering team; specifically the areas of digital fraud prevention, identity verification,…
Ekata Expands Account Opening Solutions to Help More Businesses Assess Risk at Account Creation
Ekata expanded its account opening solutions and risk assessment software to help ecommerce companies and marketplaces worldwide quickly identify and flag risky account sign-ups. Powered by a proprietary data set…
Many of our customers use rules in their fraud workflows to identify good and bad actors. These rules, which are combinations of conditional statements that operate as data filters, can…
Digital Account Opening is Where the Competition Starts
Original authors are Trenton Spratling, Global Account Director at Ekata, and Wendy Hokanson, Global Head of the Financial Services Market Segment at Ekata Looking back in the last year, there…
Mastercard Successfully Completes Acquisition of Ekata
June 9, 2021 – Ekata, Inc., a global leader in dynamic identity verification solutions for real-time risk decisioning, has successfully been acquired by Mastercard. Together, Ekata and Mastercard will provide…