Banks Can’t Fight AI Fraud With Yesterday’s Rules
As fraudsters use AI to spoof identities, retailers should look for financing partners using modern, invisible security to protect sales.
Curated by Financing Your Way from original reporting by PYMNTS. Summary is AI-assisted and editorially reviewed — see our editorial standards.
AI is changing how consumers search for financing, but it is also handing professional fraudsters a powerful new toolkit. For retailers and operators, this means the 'old way' of verifying a customer’s identity is becoming obsolete. Standard documents and basic personal info can now be easily spoofed by generative AI in seconds. This creates a bottleneck during the credit application process. If your lender's security is too tight, you lose sales to friction. If it's too loose, you deal with the administrative headache of fraudulent chargebacks and identity theft claims. Modern financing partners are moving toward 'silent' authentication. This technology looks at how a customer interacts with their device and their physical location rather than just asking for a password or a social security number. For the merchant, this shift is good news. It allows for a smoother checkout experience with fewer manual reviews and better protection against fake credit applications. As identity theft involving AI becomes more common, the lenders you choose to partner with must have these modern defense layers in place to protect your revenue and your customers' data.
Source: PYMNTS
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