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Managing Ecommerce Risk to Increase Monthly Revenue

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Case Study: Reduced False Declines and Increased Monthly Revenue Through Ekata Risk Scores

While the approach to capturing fraud and false declines varies from company to company and from industry to industry, one thing is certain: implementing an end-to-end identity verification solution into your risk assessment model is essential (to reduce ecommerce risk). In this case study, Ekata performed a historical analysis on previous transactions accepted and declined […]

2.1.2021
How Stopping Fraud Early Can Increase Your Bottom Line

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How Stopping Fraud Early Can Increase Your Bottom Line

As the digital world continues to evolve, merchants are battling various types of fraud to protect both their customers and their bottom line. As fraudsters become more sophisticated and target businesses even earlier in the transaction process, merchants need to take a multi-layered approach to weed out bad actors and bad transactions alike. Ekata’s latest […]

1.4.2021
Ekata Performance and Reliability

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Ekata Performance Amidst the Holiday Shopping Surge

It’s clear that holiday spending will be different in 2020 from previous years. Crowds might not be rushing to the front doors like normal, but the holiday rush is already among us. Due to COVID-19, many retailers have already started promoting holiday deals as early as October, and plan to stretch those out over a […]

11.12.2020
customer data verification

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How Phone and Email Data is used in Transactions Around the World

Regardless of where you are in the world, Ekata can help verify your identity, determine whether or not a transaction is high risk or low risk, and give the data needed to appropriately respond to each transaction. This is the reason we are in such a unique position to speak from a global perspective on […]

10.30.2020
Ekata Data Analysis Update

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Data Deep Dive, Part II: How COVID-19 Transformed the Global Digital Economy

When the COVID-19 outbreak was first declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in mid-March, nobody was in a position to predict just how great an impact this would have. After an initially fragmented response, a truly global response was underway. The announcement of the closure of non-essential retailers around the world […]

10.22.2020
Covid Online Fraud

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Data Deep Dive, Part I: COVID-19's Estimated Effect on Holiday Shopping Trends

There’s no doubt about it. COVID – 19 has forced an evolution in eCommerce. When you examine the patterns and trends of online transactions globally since the pandemic was first declared (and you better believe we have examined it!) it’s extraordinary. While January through March 2020 matched forecasted volume increase over the same period in […]

10.20.2020
Ecommerce False Declines - Capturing Transactions Not Enough - Ekata

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Reducing False Declines, Part II: Capturing Fraudulant Transactions Isn't Enough

“Fraud detection solutions need not only to prevent fraud, but also need to deliver a superior experience to the end-consumer.” That was the takeaway in the discussion about striking a balance between fraud and customer experience.  But how do you optimize risk models?  Existing models tend to take on typical customer information such as name, […]

8.7.2020
Reduce False Declines in eCommerce

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Reducing False Declines, Part I: Happy Customers or Fraudsters?

The new normal enforced by COVID-19 has driven consumers to spend more time online to fulfill their everyday needs. Whether it is out of boredom to compensate for the stay-at-home mandates or out of necessity, consumers are relying heavily on purchases made online. This influx of activity has not gone unnoticed by fraudsters. It is […]

7.23.2020
Ekata Data Covid Analysis

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Successfully Engaging With New Customers, Even In Uncertain Times

In our last blog, Assessing Risk in Uncharted Times, we looked at Ekata Confidence Scores and leading indicators for fraud such as email first seen data. These indicators are helpful in understanding and identifying a good customer versus fraud. As we conclude our blog series on COVID-19 and the data impacts, we want to provide […]

7.2.2020

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