Merchant Risk Council

With the vision of making commerce safe and profitable everywhere, the Merchant Risk Council is the leading global business association for eCommerce fraud and payments professionals.

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Upcoming Webinars

Join us for our upcoming webinars discussing key takeaways from the 2019 MRC Global Fraud Survey, functionality available in today's payment engines and transaction switching products, the evolution of fraud prevention, ways to treat and prevent gift card fraud and abuse, and mitigating fraud using real-time intelligence.

MRC Connects Leeds

Join us at MRC Connects Leeds on June 20 sponsored by Emailage! Here you will have the opportunity to connect with local industry professionals and enjoy networking, a panel discussion, and refreshments.

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European Advisory Board Position Open

The MRC is accepting applications from European solution provider members for an open position on the MRC European Advisory Board. Applications for this exceptional opportunity are being accepted until May 28.

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Industry News

Finextra Research News

Meridian chooses MX Pulse to deliver AI-driven insights in online and mobile banking
MX, the leading provider of financial data services, announced that Meridian is the first financial...
Kyriba brings real-time payments to treasurers through JPMorgan API
Cloud-based treasury management outfit Kyriba is tapping JPMorgan's API to enable shared clients to...
Transparent and controlled AI-powered client lifecycle management & KYC
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used throughout digital transformation initiatives and is chan...
Rabobank abandons cryptocurrency wallet plans
Rabobank has ditched plans to launch a cryptocurrency wallet, citing, among other issues, the regula...
Open banking: Innovating identity to fight against fraud
The arrival of e-commerce and digital banking has been revolutionary for both financial services fir...

Krebs on Security

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents rel[…]
Legal Threats Make Powerful Phishing Lures
Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipien[…]
Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked
Ogusers[.]com -- a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims[…]
Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an internat[…]
A Tough Week for IP Address Scammers
In the early days of the Internet, there was a period when Internet Protocol 4 (IPv4) addresses (e.g. 4.4.4.4) were given out like cotton candy to an[…]

The Paypers

Equifax leverages Securekey Verified.Me for user identity verification
(The Paypers) Equifax Canada has announced the partnership with SecureKey Technologies, identity and authentication solutions providers, to support C[…]
European market greets new stablecoin
(The Paypers) A new token on the Ethereum blockchain backed by Euro, xEURO stablecoin, has been created for the European and global markets to solve […]
Digital Element's NetAcuity added NS8 for risk-assessment solution
(The Paypers) Digital Element has announced that NS8 will incorporate a number of its NetAcuity datasets to facilitate risk-assessment solutions for […]
India reported as 2nd in list of top phishing hosting nations
(The Paypers) Phishing accounted for 29% of all fraud attacks in Q1 2019, with India standing second to the US on the list of top phishing hosting co[…]
AT&T currently accepts Bitcoin as payment for its subscribers
(The Paypers) Telecommunications company AT&T has announced it became the first US mobile carrier to accept Bitcoin for payment.