Category: APIs

Stop Fraudsters and Bad Actors Using Ekata

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How to Stop Bad Actors While Maintaining a Seamless UX — It’s Possible!

As we fast approach year three of the global pandemic, consumers continue to transact online, rapidly expanding the digital economy. While in-person transactions rebounded somewhat last year, U.S. ecommerce sales increased 9.4% year-over year in November 2021, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse™. This measures overall retail sales across all payment types, including cash and check. These […]

7.5.2022
Digital Account Opening Solutions Expands for Risk Assessment

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Ekata Expands Account Opening Solutions to Help More Businesses Assess Risk at Account Creation

Ekata today expanded its account opening solutions to help ecommerce companies and marketplaces worldwide quickly identify and flag risky account sign-ups. Powered by a proprietary data set and machine learning, Ekata’s account opening solutions assess the risk of new accounts in real-time. This enables businesses to create streamlined onboarding experiences for legitimate customers and to […]

1.19.2022
testing proof of concept

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Testing a Successful Proof of Concept

At Ekata, we continuously perform analysis on proof of concept tests using large 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 at Ekata, I have a lot of experience – from live integration […]

11.9.2021
Buy now pay later 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 […]

6.24.2021
Identity Verification Shipping and Delivery

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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

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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

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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
Evaluating Address Risk in Fractions of a Second

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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
Transaction Risk API

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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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