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Read and learn about fraud prevention and identity verification in the eCommerce industry with the following articles and posts by Ekata, a Mastercard company.

Ecommerce Fraud Detection

Four essential SaaS features you need in fraud detection software

Navigate the digital world securely. Unveil the essential SaaS features that empower businesses.

9.27.2023

Ecommerce Fraud Prevention

Ecommerce fraud trends and statistics merchants need to know in 2024

With dramatic global growth and expansion across ecommerce, fraud continues to surge. Let’s take a look at the trends and statistics you’ll need to know. Article at a glance Global ecommerce fraud is increasing, with losses reaching $41 billion in 2022 and predicted to exceed $48 billion in 2023. Europe faces significant ecommerce fraud […]

9.13.2023

Guest Post | Vesta

False declines and false positives are costing you revenue

Explore the impact of false declines in ecommerce and learn how to balance fraud prevention with legitimate transactions in this great article by Vesta.

7.13.2023

Fraud Prevention

Four ways to bring value to your ecommerce fraud prevention team

In an ever-competitive market and in a fluctuating global economy, online retailers have to be strategic when it comes to staying on top of profit margins. Unfortunately, the only sure-fire way to improve margins is to raise prices or cut costs (or a combination of both). Since raising prices turns away customers, most online retailers […]

6.30.2023

Promo Abuse

The dark side of discounts: understanding and preventing promo code abuse

Promo codes can be a powerful tool for businesses, but they can unfortunately come with their own set of risks. Promo code abuse is a common issue and concern for e-commerce businesses. It results in financial losses and reduced profitability, strains customer relationships, devalues promotional campaigns and increases operational complexity. However, there are strategies to […]

6.15.2023

Ecommerce Fraud Detection

Protecting your small-to-medium business against ecommerce fraud in 2023

It wasn’t so long ago that large, global corporations were the primary targets of fraudsters. In turn, these big fish organizations got to work, investing in full-featured detection and prevention technologies. Today, given the dramatic changes to the spending habits of consumers, with >50% increase to U.S ecommerce sales alone since 2019 and with the […]

4.5.2023

Identity Verification

Probabilistic Identity Matching in Customer Experience Management

Here at Ekata we offer what is called a probabilistic approach to risk with identity verification. This is different from traditional methods, which are more deterministic. The advantage to using a probabilistic solution is one of scale, speed, and cost. Deterministic risk approaches are not only costly, but can result in poor customer experiences and […]

3.1.2023

Fraud Risk

Fraud in the travel industry: Risks and solutions

A look into the current trends in travel and tourism. While Covid-19 well and truly impacted every business across the globe, few sectors were hit as hard as the travel industry. Due to public health measures such as local lockdowns and tourism restrictions, travel in many parts of the world came to a standstill over […]

1.25.2023

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