New Collaboration Aims to Prevent Fraud in E-commerce

E-commerce companies are estimated to lose $48 billion to payment fraud annually.  

According to the payment company Adyen, collaboration and proactivity are crucial to prevent payment fraud. Sharing information among merchants, payment processors and banks can create a secure payments environment that stops fraudsters in their tracks. 

To combat escalating credit card fraud rates, Capital One is joining forces with payments giants and industry competitors Adyen and Stripe to offer Direct Data Share (DDS), a free collaborative tool that enhances credit card payment authorization decisions in real-time and in an effort to reduce fraud losses and false declines for merchants.

DDS is designed to help reduce fraud and decrease credit card declines, which in turn can help more of the right payments be approved.

The timing of this partnership is crucial, as global fraud losses are projected to reach $343 billion by 2027.

So far, this technology has saved merchants a billion dollars that would have been lost to fraud and card declines.

Through DDS, merchants have the power to demand a better fraud solution by choosing a provider – such as Stripe or Adyen – that offers DDS transaction-enhanced decisioning to protect their businesses and their customers. 

“Capital One is pleased and grateful that we get to work with payments leaders like Stripe and Adyen to prevent fraud,” says Jon Borman, Head of Fraud Strategy at Capital One. “It's a remarkable outcome when big players come together to make a lasting impact on an issue that continues to increase over time.”