Yahoo Finance Visa (V) Unveils Digital Tool to Fight Fraudulent Practices
Visa Inc. V recently introduced a digital tool named Advanced Identity Score that will enable U.S. financial institutions fight new account and synthetic fraud, which induces loss running into billions of dollars for banks and credit unions.
Rational Behind the Initiative
The innovative tool combines the company’s AI and predictive machine-learning abilities with application and identity-related data to generate a risk score for new account applications. This will likely decrease fraudulent activities, such as new accounts opened with stolen identities, and protect customers against fake ID or account takeover fraud.
The breakthrough is also expected to improve brand loyalty and eradicate operational costs. The loss, estimated at $10 billion per year, is taken care of by the company with this current launch, which in turn, will offer some relief to customers.
Per Visa, U.S. cardholders spend 15 hours, on average, to resolve new account fraud and also undergo poor customer experience. New account fraud raises a major concern as more than 14.7 billion data records has been reportedly breached since 2013, which include sensitive information, such as name, tax ID number, address, etc.
The aforementioned initiative is taken at a time when financial institutions are having a tough time battling against fraud while onboarding as card-not-present transactions are on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
Visa’s goal is to help customers, merchants and financial institutions focus on cost-cutting during such uncertain times. Most financial institutions use a layered fraud- prevention strategy to combat identity-related forgery. However, many of the systems are rules-based with limitations and loopholes that may cause false positives or customer friction.
Advanced Identity Score helps financial institutions with informed identity risk decisions by generating a two-digit Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-compliant identity fraud score in near real-time. It is the only fraud solution harnessing virtually all U.S. approved/declined bank card application data and account-level fraud information to detect and prevent potential fraud.
The company’s AI allows it to examine data points in areas like application velocity, frauds, bankruptcy, etc.
Visa continues to invest in technology for further boosting its already leading position in the payments market, minimizing the impact of fraud and protecting consumer and merchant-oriented information.
Zacks Rank and Price Performance
Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have gained 12.9% in a year’s time, outperforming its industry’s growth of 9.1%.
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