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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
Identity Verification Demystified: Share More, Secure More
- Javelin Report
- Date: October 31, 2024
- Author(s): Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Going too far to protect identity has put the financial services industry at increased risk. Reluctance to share critical signals across disparate platforms and sectors has pigeon-holed financial institutions into limited views of the consumers ...
Threat Intel Odyssey: Mapping the Convergence of Social Cyber Risks
- Impact Note
- Date: October 31, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy Kitten
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Successful sharing of threat intelligence must move beyond the borders of traditional financial services and governments to include social media, a breeding ground for cybercrime and nation-state threats. This will be tricky for FIs, which must ...
Cyber Trust in Banking
- Advisory Webinar: Client Login Required
- Date: November, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy Kitten, Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Join us for a 30-minute webinar featuring Javelin experts Tracy Kitten and Suzanne Sando as we explore the essential elements of cyber trust from the consumer's perspective.
2024 Cyber Trust in Banking Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: September 27, 2024
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Cybersecurity
In this scorecard, Javelin evaluates leading financial institutions’ level of cyber trust based on key components: privacy, cybersecurity, education and resolution support. Shifting customer attitudes (and customers’ greater awareness of fraud a...
TikTok Users Encourage Check Fraud: Banks Must Address The ‘Glitch’
- Impact Note
- Date: September 27, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Users of TikTok and other social media platforms have accelerated check fraud by exploiting known gaps in check fraud detection processes. The viral TikTok Chase Bank “glitch” posts have unearthed consumers’ willingness to commit the age-old fra...
The Pervasiveness of Check Fraud: Banks Are Paying the Price
- Javelin Report
- Date: September 23, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Among fraud losses, check fraud ranks the highest within several financial institutions. Paper checks—containing an abundance of valuable sensitive information—are prime targets for criminals who can easily alter and deposit them or use the info...
Future Strategies for Effective Identity Verification that Build, Not Break, Business
- Complimentary Webinar
- Date: October, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy Kitten
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Join Javelin's Tracy Kitten, Director of Fraud & Security, and Intellicheck's Bryan Lewis, President and CEO, to learn about strategies for identity verification.
Fraud Prevention: Managing The Entire Customer Lifecycle
- Whitepaper
- Date: September 3, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This report, sponsored by TransUnion, explores the immediate and long-term risks associated with new-account fraud (NAF) and account takeover (ATO) fraud for organizations and consumers and establishes a case for employing comprehensive identity...
ATO Fraud: Why It Remains FIs' Greatest Fraud Risk
- Javelin Report
- Date: August 30, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy Kitten
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Despite years of anti-fraud investment, account takeover (ATO) continues to plague financial institutions and consumers. Traditional authentication methods offer too many gaps of opportunity for cybercriminals, primarily because of easily compro...
Cyber Trust in Banking: Privacy Path to Maturity
- Javelin Report
- Date: August 26, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy Kitten
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
For consumers, privacy is the fundamental determinant of cyber trust. The degree to which financial institutions protect consumer privacy and enhance authentication and identity verification to remove PII from the process also is essential. Jave...