Category: APIs

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The Top 5 Fraud Indicators for Shipping Addresses

Determining the validity of an address, especially in e-commerce, 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

Evaluate the Risk of Any Address in Fractions of a Second

Risky addresses can cause businesses to incur high costs due to fraud, order reprocessing, customer care hours, customer loyalty, and more. The Address Risk API helps alleviate these costs by validating global addresses and provides fraud risk signals in fractions of a second so you can streamline checkouts, identity fraud early in your customer workflows, […]

10.21.2020

Ekata

Reliable Ekata API Performance for a Stress-Free Holiday Season

This holiday season, CNBC predicts online spending will reach $143.7 billion, a healthy 14.1% up from last year’s sales. Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday sales alone are expected to hit double-digit growth from last year. What’s more, with six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, we expect even higher transaction volumes […]

11.21.2019

Ekata

Data Update: Significant Improvements and Expanded Coverage in EMEA and APAC

2019 has been a momentous year for Ekata. Earlier this year, we opened an office in Amsterdam, and as 2019 ends, we’ll be ramping up to open a new office in Singapore! We are so excited about our push into EMEA and APAC, but it’s not just limited to our physical efforts. On the digital […]

11.14.2019

Ekata

Transaction Risk API, winner of 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

Ekata

Data Update: Just In Time For The Holidays!

Data Update: Added over 15M US relative and associated people links and huge increase in global data coverage The holiday season is arguably the most important time of the year for our customers. And here at Ekata, we keep this, and our customers and their needs, at the forefront of our minds. As we see […]

10.7.2019

Ekata

Data Update: Fueling our Global Endpoints

Data update: Increased automation and quality enables 32M new links to fuel our US and EU endpoints For nearly thirty releases, we’ve scaled and optimized our Identity Graph to provide our customers with clean and up-to-date data. Nothing new here. But Data Version 29 marks a wave of firsts in our data story. This is […]

7.30.2019

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How to Validate a Customer's Postal Address

Is this a valid address?: 399 Judson Street Lynden, WA 98264 As it turns out, answering this question is more complex than you might think. Read along as we highlight the challenges in validating addresses at a global scale, why Google’s Geocoding API might not be the best solution for you, and why a robust […]

7.22.2019

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Embracing Change and Strong Customer Authentication

Resistance to change is a powerful human emotion. Whether it’s change in family life, a favorite app’s new user interface or a new process at work, people just don’t like change. Multiply that discomfort out from the individual to the entire payments industry, and you’ll get a sense of how things are going as we […]

7.18.2019