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Javelin explores and analyzes how financial institutions can get ahead of criminals using technology, training and education. Our insights guide financial institutions to devise effective strategies to safeguard their data, systems and customers through two specialized practices – Fraud Management and Cybersecurity.
Mitigate Security Threats and Keep Accounts and Identities Safe
Criminals’ tactics are always changing. So is the technology that can help head them off. Javelin’s analysis can help keep financial institutions—and thus their customers—a step ahead. Further, Javelin can help you position your customers as partners in protecting their own information from would-be thieves.
Recent Fraud and Security Research
Reports
Symantec Deprecation: Trust Beyond the Browser Lock
- Javelin Report
- Date: March 16, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
As foot traffic to branches dwindles and online financial services expands, there is no more important function for bankers to consider than the means by which customers securely access their online and mobile banking pages. Concurrently, big ch...
2018 Digital Lending Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: March 1, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, James Wilson
- Research Topic(s): Digital Strategy & Experience, Mobile & Online Banking, Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Lending, Digital Banking, Fraud & Security
While most areas in retail banking have embraced the power of going digital, lending has been a clear laggard. It is only over the last few years that lending has truly embraced the digital revolution. Spurred by threats from alternative p...
2018 Cryptocurrency Wallet Safety Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: February 28, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini, Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This Javelin scorecard report evaluates the customer-facing fraud mitigation features of major cryptocurrency wallets against the fraud threats facing cryptocurrency investors.
2018 Fraud & Security Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: February 19, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini, Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Digital Strategy & Experience, Mobile & Online Banking, Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Lending, Digital Banking, Fraud & Security
With every new headline it becomes increasingly obvious that cybercrime is on the rise. Motivated by the growing use of digital banking and payments, criminals are targeting institutions’ websites, consumers’ digital devices and non-bank a...
2018 Small Business Digital Banking & Payments Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: February 13, 2018
- Author(s): Ian Benton, Jacob Jegher
- Research Topic(s): Digital Strategy & Experience, Mobile & Online Banking, Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Lending, Digital Banking, Fraud & Security
Development in digital banking and payments services for small businesses has lagged significantly behind consumer and commercial banking, leaving many business owners and operators managing their finances and paying suppliers on platforms that ...
2018 Payments Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: February 7, 2018
- Author(s): Michael Moeser, Rachel Huber
- Research Topic(s): Digital Strategy & Experience, Mobile & Online Banking, Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Lending, Digital Banking, Fraud & Security
Over the past few years the payments landscape has experienced evolutionary change in an effort to adapt to growing demands from consumers, businesses, technology, and regulators. As we kick off 2018, Javelin’s Payments team has identified three...
2018 Identity Fraud: Fraud Enters a New Era of Complexity
- Whitepaper
- Date: February 6, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini, Sarah Miller
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Javelin’s 2018 Identity Fraud Report provides comprehensive analysis of fraud trends in the context of a changing technological and regulatory environment in order to inform consumers, financial institutions, and businesses on the most effective...
2018 Digital Banking Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: February 1, 2018
- Author(s): Jacob Jegher, Emmett Higdon, Mark Schwanhausser, Ian Benton
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Digital Banking, Digital Lending, Digital Strategy & Experience, Fraud & Security, Fraud Management, Mobile & Online Banking, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business
The financial services market is undergoing significant change to adapt to consumers’ mobile-first expectations. Much immediate effort in 2018 will focus on rolling out the Zelle person-to-person (P2P) network that some envision as the backbone ...
2017 Identity Protection Service Providers Scorecard: Securing the Identities of Digital Consumers
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 27, 2017
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini, Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
The digital habits of customers will continue to shift their behavior away from brick-and-mortar stores and branches. But the trend creates as much risk for customers as it does convenience. In the same way loan officers no longer have to physic...
Securing Payments and Earning Trust in a Mobile Financial World
- Whitepaper
- Date: November 30, 2017
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This whitepaper, sponsored by CA Technologies, examines how the introduction and subsequent adoption of mobile payments has challenged the ability of financial institutions and credit card issuers to provide security and engender trust among con...