Identity Verification API News & Updates - Ekata, a Mastercard Company
Ekata is part of the Mastercard family. Ekata's solutions provide the most predictive and frictionless identity verification.

Ekata is part of the Mastercard family. Ekata's solutions provide the most predictive and frictionless identity verification.

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Discover the true power of Ekata’s API. Learn more about how our API can empower your company to combat digital fraud interactions at scale.

What is Address Verification, Do I need an AVS

Address Verification Service

Build vs. Buy: Which is the better option for an address verification solution?

Even with so much of our lives now taking place online, one’s physical address is still a vital identification attribute when it comes to verifying a customer’s identity. The act of verifying an address is necessary on multiple occasions; opening a bank account (or any other government account), complying with  s and preventing fraudulent transactions and […]

7.24.2023
Buy Now Pay Later BNPL Fraud

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Fraud in the Buy Now Pay Later Industry

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is not a new idea, but with the boom in e-commerce during the Covid-19 pandemic, BNPL has exploded onto the payments scene as a major industry. The idea is essentially a simplification of the credit process by providing ‘instant credit’ at the point of sale. This means that when the […]

4.26.2023
Managing Ecommerce Risk to Increase Monthly Revenue

Marketplaces

Three ways to grow and profit for your marketplace business

We work with numerous marketplace businesses around the world, providing them with best-in-class identity verification solutions, enabling trust and safety teams to do their job more effectively and efficiently. Our definition of a marketplace business is simple: A platform for two populations (e.g. supply/demand) to interact. The nature of these interactions could be for the […]

4.19.2023
testing proof of concept

Ekata

5 Questions to Ask Fraud Prevention & ID Verification Services

Testing a Successful Proof of Concept At Ekata, we continuously perform analysis on proof of concept tests using large identity verification and fraud prevention data sets to show our customers how to leverage Ekata APIs. While running data tests is labor-intensive, when done right, they can yield excellent results. As a senior field data scientist […]

2.15.2023
How to stop bad actors while maintaining a seamless UX

Fraud Prevention

A user-centric approach to ecommerce fraud prevention

Let’s strike a balance between digital fraud prevention and customer experience once and for all

1.18.2023
Identity Verification Shipping and Delivery

Ekata

The Top 5 Fraud Indicators for Shipping Addresses

Determining the validity of an address, especially in ecommerce, is necessary for shipping goods or authorizing a purchase, as well as detecting fraud. Larger and more sophisticated merchants with historical data assess risk based on address characteristics and past outcomes. For example, postcodes with historically high fraud rates may be flagged for further review or […]

5.26.2021
Ekata Credit Risk and Fraud Risk Tools

Ekata

Ekata Executive Series, Part II: Trust Starts at the Source: Credit Risk Versus Fraud Risk

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO, Rob Eleveld, will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, we are digging into the deterministic approach of credit risk and comparing it to the probabilistic approach of fraud […]

11.30.2020
Supporting Cross-Border IDV with API

Ekata

Ekata Executive Series, Part I: Supporting Cross-Border Identity Verification

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO, Rob Eleveld, will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, our theme is “cross border” in the payments and card-not-present (CNP) ecosystem. Global Electronic Payments Global payments have been […]

11.20.2020
Transaction Risk API

Ekata

Transaction Risk API, winner of 2019 API World’s Best in Payment APIs

We’re excited to announce that Ekata has won a 2019 API World Award for: Best in Payment APIs. The 2019 API Awards celebrate technical innovation, adoption, and reception in the API & Microservices industries, as well as use by a global developer community. Out of hundreds of nominations, the Advisory Board selects winners based on […]

10.8.2019

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