Fraud & Identity Management
When we think about fraud prevention, naturally we think about mininizing fraud at application. We want to ensure that the identities used in the...
By: Kristan Frend According to the 2011 Identity Theft Assistance Center Outlook (ITAC), new forms of small business identity theft are emerging. This shouldn’t be...
By: Kristan Frend As my colleague Margarita Lim discussed in her December 3rd article, the SSA announced that it will change how social security numbers...
By: Ken Pruett The majority of the customers I meet with use some sort of Velocity Checks to assist with their Fraud and Compliance process. However,...
By: Andrew Gulledge Bridgekeeper: “What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” King Arthur: “What do you mean? An African or European swallow?” Here...
By: Andrew Gulledge I hate this question. There are several reasons why the concept of an “average fraud rate” is elusive at best, and...
By: Margarita Lim It’s the holiday season and a festive time of year. Colorful Christmas lights and decorations, holiday songs, all of these things...
The U.S. Senate passed legislation recently that would exempt certain businesses from complying with the Red Flags Rule. Sponsored by Senator John Thune (R-SD),...
By: Margarita Lim Recently, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it will change how Social Security numbers (SSN) will be issued, with a...
As the December 31st deadline approaches for FTC enforcement of the Red Flags Rule, we still seem quite a ways off from getting out...
As E-Government customer demand and opportunity increases, so too will regulatory requirements and associated guidance become more standardized and uniformly adopted. Regardless of credentialing...
Experian recently contributed to a TSYS whitepaper focused on the various threats associated with first party fraud. I think the paper does a good job...
By: Kennis Wong In the last entry, I mentioned that consumers’ participation in protecting their own identity information is an important aspect of an...
By: Kennis Wong As a fraud management professional, naturally I am surrounded by fraud prevention topics and other professionals in the field all the...
— by, Andrew Gulledge One of the quickest and easiest ways to reduce fraud in your portfolio is to incorporate question weighting into your...