Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has spoken with over 50 industry experts on this topic for its Payments Fraud Insights white paper series. Following the release of the final white paper in this series, the Federal Reserve hosted a webinar to discuss strategies for mitigating synthetic identity payments fraud with two of these experts.
Roy Olsen explains why his financial institution began using the FraudClassifier(SM) model.
The Federal Reserve recently hosted a webinar featuring the FraudClassifier℠ model. The model was developed by the Fraud Definitions Work Group to help address the industrywide challenge of inconsistent classifications for fraud involving ACH, wire or check payments.
Today, the Federal Reserve published our most recent white paper in a series on synthetic identity payments fraud. Over the past year, we’ve spoken with more than 50 industry experts about the growing issue of synthetic identity payments fraud and its impact on the financial services industry.
The Federal Reserve-led Fraud Definitions Work Group has completed its work on a new fraud classification model that enables all payments stakeholders to classify fraud in a simple and similar manner. Their work was previewed at a virtual event held by Nacha this week, and will be published this spring.
The Fraud Definitions Work Group convened for its final in-person meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on Jan. 29 and 30.
Collaboration with payments industry stakeholders continues to be one of the five key tenets of the Federal Reserve’s payments improvement initiatives and a vital component of achieving safe, ubiquitous and faster payments in the United States. Most recently, our collaboration occurred through a series of FedPayments Improvement roundtable sessions during …
By Tim Boike, Vice President, Industry Relations Four short days. More than 11,000 attendees, 3,500 organizations and 500+ speakers from the payments, fintech and financial services sectors. Plus, a Federal Reserve exhibit booth in the middle of it all. Yes – it’s the Money20/20 USA conference (Off-site) – a major …
The Fraud Definitions Work Group held its fourth and final in-person meeting for 2019 at the Miami Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on September 12 and 13. During this meeting, the Federal Reserve shared a draft proposal for a three-phase Industry Adoption Roadmap for the Fraud Classification …
By Jim Cunha, Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Our payments security team at the Federal Reserve began talking about synthetic identity payments fraud with industry stakeholders last fall, and today, we have published our second white paper: Detecting Synthetic Identity Fraud in the U.S. Payment System (PDF). …