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Americans will be leaning hard on their credit cards this holiday season. Whether that ends for you with a pile of new high-interest debt or a pile of presents that didn’t ruin your financial health ...

Your favorite latte at the local coffee shop could soon cost $5, $5.10 or $5.25—depending on how you pay. A settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants announced this week could usher in a ...

In one of the biggest cybercrime crackdowns of the year, international authorities have taken down three massive credit card fraud and money-laundering rings responsible for defrauding over 4.3 ...

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International authorities have dismantled three massive credit card fraud and money laundering networks, linked to losses exceeding €300 million ($344 million) and affecting over 4.3 million ...

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Due to the vast volume of daily transactions, financial institutions face significant challenges in detecting and preventing fraudulent card transactions. Traditional fraud detection systems often ...

A new international study published in Computers has uncovered deep flaws in how artificial intelligence models are evaluated for credit card fraud detection. Titled “A Systematic Review of Machine ...

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1 Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia 2 InnoV'COM Laboratory-Sup'Com, University of Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia ...