Fighting Fraud and Increasing Authorisation Rates Through Collaboration

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As eCommerce volume continues to rise, so do consumer expectations. Balancing fraud and acceptance is difficult for businesses, and the cost of false declines is still high. So how do businesses delicately balance preventing fraud whilst accepting good transactions?

Join Spencer McLain, VP & GM, EMEA at Ekata, as he discusses how businesses can solve this problem with the use of pre-authorisation screening, and how regulations, like PSD2, are actually an opportunity to increase intelligence data sharing across the payments ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
  • Understanding the challenges of today's online payments ecosystem
  • How regulations such as PSD2 are an opportunity to increase intelligent data sharing
  • Definition and benefits of pre-authorisation screening

Spencer McLain

Ekata Vice President & General Manager of EMEA

Spencer McLain is Ekata’s Vice President and General Manager of the EMEA region. He leads Ekata’s international expansion efforts and owns key relationships with card brands and payment service providers. Spencer supports multiple fraud platform partnerships, collaborates with Product Management to improve Ekata’s API products to ensure that they provide maximum lift in risk models and/or rule-sets, and acts as a key liaison to complex data customers who require specialized testing/analysis.

Spencer McLain

Ekata Vice President & General Manager of EMEA

Spencer McLain is Ekata’s Vice President and General Manager of the EMEA region. He leads Ekata’s international expansion efforts and owns key relationships with card brands and payment service providers. Spencer supports multiple fraud platform partnerships, collaborates with Product Management to improve Ekata’s API products to ensure that they provide maximum lift in risk models and/or rule-sets, and acts as a key liaison to complex data customers who require specialized testing/analysis.

Thor Magnussen | LEGO

Head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas

Thor is the head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas at LEGO, this includes the shop.LEGO.com, 90+ LEGO retail stores and LEGO Education. His responsibilities include the management of chargeback processing and data analysis, automated rules engine management, manual review screening and detection of internal & external theft/policy abuse.

Thor Magnussen | LEGO

Head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas

Thor is the head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas at LEGO, this includes the shop.LEGO.com, 90+ LEGO retail stores and LEGO Education. His responsibilities include the management of chargeback processing and data analysis, automated rules engine management, manual review screening and detection of internal & external theft/policy abuse.

Thor Magnussen | LEGO

Head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas

Thor is the head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas at LEGO, this includes the shop.LEGO.com, 90+ LEGO retail stores and LEGO Education. His responsibilities include the management of chargeback processing and data analysis, automated rules engine management, manual review screening and detection of internal & external theft/policy abuse.

Thor Magnussen | LEGO

Head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas

Thor is the head of Fraud Prevention for the Americas at LEGO, this includes the shop.LEGO.com, 90+ LEGO retail stores and LEGO Education. His responsibilities include the management of chargeback processing and data analysis, automated rules engine management, manual review screening and detection of internal & external theft/policy abuse.