Press Releases

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.

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.

Aite-Novarica, a research and advisory firm, today announced a new Impact Report commissioned by GIACT, a Refinitiv company, that details excessive high rates of identity theft – including application fraud and account takeover – and its impact on U.S. consumers along with virtually every type of financial product, commercial platform and government support.

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.

DALLAS — May 11, 2021 — GIACT®, the leader in helping companies positively identify and authenticate customers, today announced that Refinitiv’s acquisition of GIACT has been named Fintech Fraud Detection Deal of the Year 2021 winner by Mergers & Acquisitions.

GIACT®, the leader in helping companies positively identify and authenticate customers, today announced a new report, U.S. Identity Theft: The Stark Reality, developed by Aite Group, and underwritten by GIACT, that uncovers the striking pervasiveness of identity theft perpetrated against U.S. consumers and tracks shifts in banking behaviors adopted as a result of the pandemic.

Refinitiv has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Giact Systems, LLC (“GIACT”) boosting Refinitiv’s existing risk and compliance capabilities with the addition of an industry leader in digital identity, payments verification and fraud prevention.