Category: e-commerce

Ekata

The Future of Financial Security: Mitigating Risk & Managing Technology

Dan Jiao, Payment Risk Solutions Manager at Ekata, was on a BrightTALK live panel at Money20/20 in October. Watch a recording of this panel and learn more about how the movement of #data to the cloud has created new risks and challenges when it comes to protecting #financialdata, and much more. Watch now. Full description […]

11.15.2019

Ekata

Improve Fraud Model Performance With Ekata APIs

Today, the fraud risk for e-commerce companies is higher than ever before. And companies conducting business online must deal with many types of online fraud. The increasing risk of online fraud and constantly evolving tactics of fraudsters are forcing businesses to rethink their strategies when it comes to preventing fraud. Many of these organizations are […]

8.14.2018

Ekata

Going Beyond Transactional Fraud With Identity Data

Typically, merchants use identity data to prevent transactional fraud and use real-time identity verification in order to keep fraudsters from making a purchase. But lately, we’ve seen a trend among some of our merchants toward using identity data earlier in the customer journey to improve the customer experience and reduce the risk of fraud. Fraud […]

7.11.2018

Ekata

Staples Weighs In on 2018 Fraud Trends

We’ve been talking to our customers about their biggest challenges and observations throughout the 2017 holiday season. Elie Chemaly, Director of Fraud Strategy and Investigations at Staples, spoke with us back in October about how Staples was gearing up to manage fraud, and we wanted to check back from the other side of the holiday […]

1.26.2018

Ekata

Don’t Let Fraud be the “F” Word: 4 Ways to Bring Value to your Fraud Team

Profits are slim in eCommerce. Specialty, department, and discount stores see a 6% to 10% operating margin, whereas Amazon and similarly-structured companies operate with an average 1.3% margin*. The only way to improve margins is to raise prices or cut costs (or a combination of both). Since raising prices turns away customers, most retailers choose […]

6.21.2017

Ekata

New Identity Check Interface!

Technology changes quickly, and here at Ekata we move fast to deliver industry-leading global identity verification products to our customers and partners to stay in front of fraud. Ease and speed are vital to our product development process so we can help businesses identify legitimate customers, prevent fraudulent transactions, and smooth new customer account creation. […]

4.19.2017

Ekata

Rig for Speed with Identity Check Deep Links

Speed is always at the forefront of our minds here at Ekata. Our CEO, Rob Eleveld, emphasizes the importance of rigging the business for speed – from data response times and product updates to market-facing communication and account support, Pro is aligned to move fast in order to provide industry-leading products in an ever-changing data […]

2.23.2017

Ekata

The Key to a Successful Partner Integration is in the Details: Part 4 in a 6 Part Partner Series

Read Part 3 in the series: Getting Down to Business One of the key reasons that Ekata has successful integrations with three of the major fraud platforms in eCommerce is our attention to detail. It cannot be overstated that every single detail of integrating identity data into a fraud platform requires attention – we have […]

1.12.2017

Ekata

Layer Email Data to Stop Chargeback Fraud

While sending a confirmation email and opening a line of communication with the customer started as a great method for customer service in the early days of the Internet, the growing ecommerce market has thrown email into the spotlight as a necessary and unique transaction identifier as part of a layered solution for identity verification. […]

12.20.2016