Join iovation in partnership with Clarion Events, for our iGaming Report Highlights Webinar, featuring product expert Angie White. She will review key takeaways from the 2020 iGaming industry report, forecast how these trends will impact both gambling operators and platform providers and answer all of your related questions.
Key topics:
Top iGaming industry trends and market threats
Growth in bonus abuse and other game abuses
Optimizing compliance
Winning in a mobile-first market
Expediting player onboarding
We’ve uncovered 3 market drivers in financial services.
Trust is a differentiator
Fraud is going mobile
Financial services must invest in digital
We’ll begin by hearing from the 1,604 consumers we surveyed across the US & UK.
Consumers aren’t the only ones who prefer mobile devices. Fraudsters are using mobile platforms in ever increasing numbers and fraud controls don’t always match the more mature countermeasures put in place for traditional PCs.
Fraudsters are forever adapting their techniques trying to stay ahead of countermeasures and it is tough for financial services companies to keep up. In the 2018 Fraud Detection and ID Verification in Financial Services report with Forrester Consulting, TransUnion found that 70% of providers agree that fraudsters are one step ahead, constantly refining their techniques.
We’ve seen significant growth in fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices across all industries we work with, reaching 49% in 2019. This is a big jump from 2018 when iovation saw only 30% of risky transactions originating from mobile, a year over year increase of 63%.
Between September 17th and 22nd, 2019, iovation, a TransUnion Company, collaborated with Insights West to survey 802 consumers from the United Kingdom and 802 consumers from the United States. The survey focused on their behavior related to online usage of financial services products. Questions focused on the awareness of fraud techniques and their overall trust in financial services providers to keep their information protected and secure.
Consumers are growing more concerned about the privacy and security of their personal data, which has been amplified by new privacy regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA. These concerns were echoed in a recent survey we conducted with over 1,600 consumers from the U.S. and the U.K.2 When asked about the reasons for not opening online accounts using a mobile phone, 65% responded that concern about the security of their information was a factor, with 42% of those indicating it was a major factor.
Respondents indicated the following factored into not opening an online account using a mobile phone:
We’ve seen significant growth in fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices across all industries we work with, reaching 49% in 2019. This is a big jump from 2018 when iovation saw only 30% of risky transactions originating from mobile, a year over year increase of 63%.
Of the 1,604 consumers interviewed, 3 out of 4 reported that the most important factor when choosing a financial services account is that it keeps their information secure and private.
Privacy, security and trust are the most important criteria when choosing a financial institution.
Although consumers have a high level of trust in their financial institutions, when security and fraud demands are not met, they are willing to take action and switch institutions.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the results of our analysis of 5.9 billion financial services transactions protected by iovation.
Surveys with 1,604 consumers in the U.S. and the U.K.
Focus on consumers’ perceptions and buying decisions when selecting a financial services company. This blog post will highlight some of the key findings we found in our report.
Consumers aren’t the only ones who prefer mobile devices. Fraudsters are using mobile platforms in ever increasing numbers and fraud controls don’t always match the more mature countermeasures put in place for traditional PCs.
Fraudsters are forever adapting their techniques trying to stay ahead of countermeasures and it is tough for financial services companies to keep up. In the 2018 Fraud Detection and ID Verification in Financial Services report with Forrester Consulting, TransUnion found that 70% of providers agree that fraudsters are one step ahead, constantly refining their techniques.
At iovation we believe in a layered approach to Fraud Prevention, Defense in depth if you will.
FraudForce has provided the first two layers of Device Intelligence and has provided a powered rules based engine to act on human intelligence.
SureScore provides the last layer of advanced machine learning which will allow you to maximize your fraud protection and customer experience.
These solutions go hand in hand
In 2018 we saw the U.K. Gambling Commission impose numerous multi-million pound fines on operators for ‘fair gaming’ violations. Of particular concern is managing player self-exclusion (PSE).
When players self-exclude on a gambling site that uses iovation, that operator submits a self-exclusion report on that account. We have seen a marked increase in the number of reports from operators in the last 2 years, increasing 73% since 2016.
Managing and preventing self-excluded players from creating new accounts and attempting to use your service requires collaboration across the industry. During 2018, over 795,000 devices and nearly a million accounts associated with a self exclusion report attempted to access one or more of the digital
properties in our network of iGaming clients — more than four times the number of self-exclusion reports placed in 2018.
Even with national databases such as GamStop, being able to associate self-exclusion with multiple devices and accounts, across operators, is a key tool in managing this problem.
AML
These device associations reveal a lot about both good and bad consumers
Device intelligence is crucial in preventing money laundering. By looking at device and account associations, you can uncover otherwise hidden connections. Associate groups of devices that are related to one another by looking at common account access.
iovation recently analyzed over half a billion online transactions from our global gambling customers from March 2018 to March 2019 and found that U.S. consumers are trying to bypass system controls to gamble online at a much higher rate than those outside of the use. In our analysis, we saw that 4.13% of online gambling transactions from the U.S., predominantly to European gambling operators, used evasion techniques such as trying to hide their location -- 119% higher than the 1.89% of online gambling transactions from outside of the U.S. which used evasion techniques.
Geo Compliance
For operators launching apps or online betting in new markets, one of the key regulatory constraints is controlling play based on geographical boundaries without degrading the player experience. Emerging technologies are making these processes much more seamless to manage, right in your native application. Geofencing can be enabled as an authentication constraint directly through your mobile app so that players can place bets in Nevada, for example, but are restricted from betting as soon as they cross the border into Utah.
Geo Compliance
For operators launching apps or online betting in new markets, one of the key regulatory constraints is controlling play based on geographical boundaries without degrading the player experience. Emerging technologies are making these processes much more seamless to manage, right in your native application. Geofencing can be enabled as an authentication constraint directly through your mobile app so that players can place bets in Nevada, for example, but are restricted from betting as soon as they cross the border into Utah.
Geo Compliance
For operators launching apps or online betting in new markets, one of the key regulatory constraints is controlling play based on geographical boundaries without degrading the player experience. Emerging technologies are making these processes much more seamless to manage, right in your native application. Geofencing can be enabled as an authentication constraint directly through your mobile app so that players can place bets in Nevada, for example, but are restricted from betting as soon as they cross the border into Utah.
Let’s look at this through the lens of an Online Gambling Operator securing the player journey.
One of the major problems Operators run into at New account creation is promotions abuse. For example, they may offer a $100 promotion to all new players who setup an account. Fraudsters will try to game the system by setting up multiple accounts, taking advantage of the promotion. By integrating FraudForce at login these promo abuses can be caught either through velocity rules or reputation reports that detail the fraud history.
iovation is also uniquely suited to help manage self excluded players that might try to setup new accounts. We track self excluded players by device and associations between devices, rather than by the account. So If players attempt to return with a known device, we recognize it before they can play. This prevents future fraudulent self-exclusion claims.
Implementing ClearKey at login is a very effective way to stop account takeover without adding customer friction. Players pair their devices to the Operators service and then at subsequent logins ClearKey will check the device pairing, and assess risk factors indicative of ATO. If no risk is detected players are automatically authenticated. All of this is done in the background, creating a frictionless player experience, while providing a higher level of assurance for the Operator.
Deposit is a another high-risk transaction point for online gambling, because fraudsters will use stolen credit cards to make deposits and then play with that money. Not only will the Operator be out the money for the deposit but also any winnings. Also, many cybercriminals will also try to use gambling services to launder money. Our global network of fraud analysts collaborate to fight these types of fraud by reporting when fraudulent activity has been confirmed. When the same device, or even associated devices reappear in our network, we report its past history of fraud. In addition, our ability to identify high transaction velocities for devices or IP address is effective in fighting these types of fraud.
Operators are continually working to stop cheating, collusion and chip dumping during play. With iovation they can flag devices by specific types of past cheating behavior. We then inform them if the device in use is associated with devices or accounts that have a history of cheating or fraud.
Another high-risk touchpoint is cash out, where a player withdraws any winnings. Here the Operator can add multiple layers of validation. If risk signals are detected LaunchKey can be deployed to provide step-up authentication. The Issuer could also utilize the patented authorization capabilities of LaunchKey. Pushing an authorization request to the players device, with a notification along the lines of ‘Do you authorize cash out of $10,000?’, they could the authenticate with a thumbprint, for example or deny the transaction if they didn’t initiate it.