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PaymentsJournal.com relays the news that, since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, a LIMRA survey shows 40% of financial services firms have seen an increase in fraudulent activity. This has lead notable banks and even the FBI to actually issue fraud alerts to their communities. Current stay at home orders have led more and more people to — wisely, in light of safety issues — do their banking digitally via apps and chatbots, making technology the primary barrier to fraudulent activity.
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The healthcare market anticipated some turbulent times, speculating about what uncertain future was in store while the Coronavirus was “spinning up.” For example, John Talaga, executive vice president and general manager, healthcare at Flywire, predicted that at least some of Flywire’s healthcare clients might face a 30 percent revenue shortfall this year. In a story at pymts.com, Mr Talaga was happy to admit he was a bit too pessimistic.
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We’re pleased to announce that our ORBOIMPACT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, a two-day online event which covered Healthcare Payments on Thursday, October 29, and Banking & Payments on Friday, October 30, was a huge success! Industry speakers coupled with OrboGraph experts focused on AI innovation and payment strategy helped drive strong attendance, while innovative polling encouraged attendee…
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Karen Olson, Treasury Management Banking Officer and Vice President at Dubuque Bank and Trust, notes at TelegraphHerald.com that COVID-19 has forced many businesses to quickly change their methods of operation — and, as a result, created additional avenues for payments fraud to occur.
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Group, and Studer Education, recently released research results that reveal how COVID-19 is shifting the priorities of Healthcare industry executives (you can download their study here without having to provide any information).
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Helpnetsecurity.com, quoting an Abnormal Security report, explains that there seems to be a peaking and plateauing of COVID-19-themed email attacks, an increase in BEC (Business Email Compromise) attack volume, and acceleration of payment and invoice fraud. Most of these scams rely upon impersonating a known company or brand. The report also uncovered changing trends in these brand impersonation attacks, a form of fraud where a bad actor assumes the identity of a trusted or known entity. Will it surprise you to learn, given the current remote meeting trends, that ZOOM (NASDAQ: ZM) became the most impersonated brand in Q2?
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Hopefully you’ve already registered for the ORBOIMPACT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE scheduled for October 29th and 30th. If not, what are you waiting for?
ORBOIMPACT will explore AI innovation in the fields of check payments, check fraud, and healthcare remittance automation. The event is FREE and is accepting a limited number of virtual attendees , so register today if you haven’t already!
Check out our star-studded lineup of speakers!
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If you’ve been following the news, you’ve heard warnings about COVID-19 infection spikes as a result of seasonal and behavioral factors. Another unfortunate spike related to the pandemic is check fraud.
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Even as we see our industry create and adopt newer and better, more precise tools for improving check processing and preventing fraud (we proclaimed 2019, remember, the Year of AI and Modernization), it’s important to be aware of how to most effectively integrate new technology the current ecosystem in a manner that maximizes return on investment.
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We’ve discussed at length the ways in which Image Analysis is a crucial tool in preventing and detecting check fraud. For instance, image analysis is deployed to “see the attributes of an image” and compare that to previously cleared checks for match purposes.
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