Digital identification verification firm Mitek introduced a brand new accomplice in the present day. The California-based firm has teamed up with compliance, credit score threat, and lending options firm Abrigo to assist the agency’s financial institution purchasers entry know-how to assist defend themselves towards monetary crime.
Particularly, Abrigo is searching for to mitigate examine fraud, which isn’t solely prevalent amongst banks, however can be expensive. Whereas the know-how behind paper checks appears antiquated, fraud methods for the fee technique should not. Based on FinCEN, examine fraud suspicious exercise report (SAR) filings elevated 94% over the course of 2021. Final yr, the variety of SAR filings exceeded 680,000. “The sophistication of fraud and artificial checks has by no means been extra regarding,” defined Mitek SVP and GM Michael Diamond.
Abrigo will provide its financial institution prospects entry to Mitek’s Examine Fraud Defender to assist them cease fraudulent actions round checks. Mitek’s Examine Fraud Defender makes use of imaging science, machine studying, and synthetic intelligence to research the photographs of the checks and confirm authenticity to scale back fraud losses.
“By combining Mitek’s cutting-edge know-how with Abrigo’s industry-leading platform, we are able to present our 2,400 prospects with a strong answer to assist defend their establishments and prospects from monetary crimes,” mentioned Abrigo CEO Jay Blandford.
Mitek was based in 1986 and presents know-how for cell examine deposit, new account opening, identification verification, and extra. The corporate’s options are utilized by greater than 7,900 organizations and its cell examine deposit and account opening instruments attain greater than 80 million shoppers. Mitek is publicly listed on the NASDAQ below the ticker MITK and has a present market capitalization of $517 million.
Earlier this fall, Mitek partnered with Equifax to advance the corporate’s biometric authentication and liveness detection capabilities.
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