Fraud and Security
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
2023 Identity Fraud Study: The Butterfly Effect
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
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
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...
The Future of Digital Identities is Now
Digital IDs offer convenience and security that, if implemented correctly, can reduce threats such as new account fraud, account takeover fraud, and synthetic identity fraud and also lower application abandonment rates by removing unnecessary fr...
Targeting TikTok: Rising Geopolitical Tension Should Put FIs on Guard
As a bipartisan group of legislators tries to put TikTok out of business in the United States over its China-based ownership and sketchy history of leveraging user data, U.S.-based financial institutions must be on guard as geopolitical tensions...
Reality Bytes: Empowering Consumers Through Fraud and Scams Education
Identity fraud scam losses declined in 2021, but the threat remains real, and financial institutions have a vested interest in ensuring that they are outfitting their customers and members with the most effective and easily accessed education ab...
2023 Fraud & Security Trends
Are you curious about what might happen in the financial fraud and cybersecurity realm in 2023? Join Tracy Kitten, director of fraud & security, and John Buzzard, lead analyst, fraud management, for an engaging conversation based on their 2023 t...
Ransomware Negotiation Market Landscape 2022
Ransomware negotiation providers play a pivotal role in aiding financial institutions in their recovery of stolen and/or encrypted data and in conducting post-attack forensics to help prevent another cyberattack on the institution. This report p...
2023 Cybersecurity Trends & Predictions
The annual cybersecurity trends will provide financial institutions a glimpse of what will be key trends in the following year.
2023 Financial Fraud Trends & Predictions
The annual fraud trends provide an assessment of the top three trends financial institutions will face and recommendations on how to minimize losses.