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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
Unlocking the Power of Analytics to Combat Financial Scams
- On Demand Webinar, Sponsored Webinar
- Date: August 1, 2023
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Financial scams are seemingly inescapable today and continue to outpace traditional identity fraud, such as account takeover or new account fraud, in both total victims and financial losses. However, what makes them different – and far more deva...
2023 Know Your Customer Solution Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: July 25, 2023
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols are the bedrock of robust identity verification. Understanding at a granular level whom an organization is doing business with translates into a strengthened defense against identity fraud and, on a grander sca...
Resolving Identity Fraud: A Field Guide
- Whitepaper
- Date: June 20, 2023
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by AARP, explores the aftermath of identity fraud and the resolution process from the perspective of identity fraud victims and their trusted circle of supporters who may, from time to time, assist in resolving identity fr...
Creating a Digital Portrait to Prevent Omnichannel Fraud
- Whitepaper
- Date: June 15, 2023
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by FIS, explores the next step in controlling and reducing account-based fraud by using advanced technology and procedures that include a deeper understanding of each accountholder and data element.
Commercial and Enterprise Payments Fraud: 2023 Edition
- Javelin Report
- Date: June 12, 2023
- Author(s): Albert Bodine
- Research Topic(s): Commercial & Enterprise, Fraud & Security
Fraud in commercial payments is a rising concern, with Javelin Strategy & Research data showing that businesses expect it to increase over the coming year. The reasons for pessimism are many—the ascendancy of digital payments, the complexity of ...
Check Payments and Alternatives Remain Attractive Fraud Targets
- Impact Note
- Date: June 7, 2023
- Author(s): Kevin Libby, Sophia Gonzalez
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Check use is declining. The adoption of alternative payments, like debit cards, ACH transfers, peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and digital wallet transactions has accelerated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But none of these payments fo...
Identity Fraud: The Butterfly Effect
- On Demand Webinar
- Date: April 26, 2023
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Join us for an interactive panel moderated by John Buzzard, Javelin’s Lead Analyst of Fraud & Security and the author of The Butterfly Effect, the 2023 installment of Javelin’s annual identity fraud study.
2023 Identity Fraud Study: The Butterfly Effect
- Whitepaper
- Date: March 28, 2023
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Over the 20 years Javelin Strategy & Research has been performing its landmark Identity Fraud Study, much has changed, including the emergence of an entire industry devoted to various methodologies for detecting, preventing, and reducing identit...
In Check Fraud, Everything Old Is New Again
- Impact Note
- Date: March 22, 2023
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando, Craig Lancaster
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
For a payment vehicle that is fading away, paper checks sure are getting a lot of attention from criminals. Suspicious-activity reports to FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022, with more increases ex...
More Cyber Lessons for Digital Bankers: It’s All About Trust
- Javelin Report
- Date: March 2, 2023
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Some banking customers just do not trust the internet and are not comfortable using it. They trust their banks, though, and this presents an enormous opportunity for FIs to engage these customers, nudge them toward digital banking if they are pe...