Benjamin Ayer

Refinitiv Introduces Digital Onboarding Solution to Help Businesses Accelerate Secure and Frictionless New Customer Onboarding
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LSEG Partners With Mastercard to Enhance Digital Identity and Fraud Solutions for Customers

GIACT, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, today announces a partnership with Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, to leverage its Open Banking capabilities to provide a secure account verification solution for customers.

The partnership will build on LSEG’s existing suite of digital identity and fraud solutions, allowing businesses to use a multi-method approach to verify account information for over 95%* of U.S. deposit accounts.

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Refinitiv Introduces Digital Onboarding Solution to Help Businesses Accelerate Secure and Frictionless New Customer Onboarding
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Refinitiv Introduces Digital Onboarding Solution to Help Businesses Accelerate Secure and Frictionless New Customer Onboarding

GIACT, a Refinitiv company, today announced that it has added a global consumer and business identity verification solution, gIDENTIFY® Global, to its EPIC Platform. gIDENTIFY Global represents a significant advancement in global identity verification, allowing U.S. organizations to validate non-U.S. persons across 38 countries and businesses across 11 countries, respectively.

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Consumer Scams Rising in Velocity and Sophistication_Press Release
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34% of U.S. consumers were targeted by scams in 2021, Aite-Novarica Group consumer survey finds

GIACT’s report, Consumer Scams: Rising in Velocity & Sophistication, looks at the methods scammers used to target U.S. consumers, including email, text, phone, and social media. As detailed within the report’s findings, U.S. consumers were solicited through a wide range of mediums using a variety of tactics to social engineer victims into providing payment and / or sensitive payment information.

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The Impact of Identity Theft and Scams in 2021_webinar
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The Impact of Identity Theft and Scams in 2021

virtually every type of financial product, commercial platform, and government support. Simultaneous
scam activity — via social media, phone, text, and email — targeted one in three U.S. consumers in 2021.
What were the results of these activities? And how will organizations deal with and overcome the fraud
challenge?

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Consumer Scams: Rising in Velocity & Sophistication
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Consumer Scams: Rising in Velocity & Sophistication

GIACT (a Refinitiv company) released an addition to its annual identity theft report, developed by Aite-Novarica, on consumer scams in 2021.

According to the report, one-in-three (34%) U.S. consumers were targeted by scams in 2021. Scammers used email, phone calls, text message and social media, along with a variety of scam tactics and payment channels, to socially engineer victims out of their money and / or sensitive information.

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Report_US Identity Theft in 2021_Adapting and Evolving
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U.S. Identity Theft in 2021: Adapting and Evolving

Announced today, GIACT (a Refinitiv company) released its annual report, developed by Aite-Novarica, on identity theft in 2021.  According to the report, 25% of U.S. consumers were impacted by identity theft in 2021. The report’s findings follow record high rates of identity theft in 2020 and explosive growth in scam activity in 2021.

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Nacha Provides ACH Network Rules Update
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Nacha Provides ACH Network Rules Update

Organizations increasingly rely on ACH to facilitate payments. To keep users up-to-date, Nacha — who oversees the ACH Network — provides regular updates to its members on new developments, rules and enforcements. To get a preview of what to expect in the next 12 months impacting ACH payments — from micro-deposit verification, increased payment limits, to account validation enforcement — join Nacha’s Director of ACH Network Rules and GIACT (a Refinitiv company) at 1 PM ET Wednesday, June 22 for a complimentary webinar.

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Whitepaper_Reducing Insurance Fraud Through Enhanced Identity Verification
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Reducing Insurance Fraud Through Enhanced Identity Verification

In the last two months of 2020, two-thirds of home buyers placed bids on properties without ever seeing the home in person. To operate in 2022, mortgage lenders increasingly rely on their online platforms to facilitate home buying and refinancing. While digital identity verification is critical to any online loan application, many mortgage lenders are considering how best to balance customer experience and risk.

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