Protect your business with a comprehensive view into the current retail fraud environment.
The retail fraud landscape is characterized by constant, fast-moving and costly changes. Just as your business successfully conquers one fraud scheme, another more sophisticated threat becomes your next challenge.
Consumers demand fast, near-frictionless transactions across every channel which has driven the rapid expansion of digital commerce. These developments translate into new opportunities for fraudsters to manipulate identities across the digital marketplace and maximize the amount of damage they can quickly inflict on your business—often without immediate detection. Balancing consumer expectations while effectively combatting retail fraud can feel like an endless battle that drains resources and focus from your core business objectives.
The LexisNexis® Risk Solutions 2019 True Cost of FraudSM Study explores the evolution, expansion and cost of fraud to deliver insights and recommendations on how to effectively sustain your business, successfully manage fraud risks and strengthen customer trust and loyalty. Building upon 10 consecutive years of research, the 2019 study also features the most recent results for the LexisNexis® Fraud MultiplierSM which estimates the total amount of losses a merchant incurs based on the actual dollar value of a fraudulent transaction. For 2019, the LexisNexis® Fraud MultiplierSM is $3.13, a number that has increased by 6.5% since 2018's study.
Take a closer look at this comprehensive study for a detailed overview that covers:
Capture an industry-driven view into current fraud issues
Our True Cost of Fraud Study is built from a comprehensive cross-section of 700 U.S. risk and fraud executives representing the retail industry. The study features insights built from a wide spectrum of retail merchants, including: retailers offering e-commerce, retailers receiving a majority of their income though online or mobile channels and retailers offering mobile commerce. To further clarify the study findings, results are segmented and categorized across size and type of merchant, including small merchants earning less than $10 million in annual revenue and mid/large merchants earning over $10 million in annual revenue.
Confidently tackle fraud by understanding today’s most significant threats
Our study provides an inside look into the relevant fraud threats challenging today’s retailers with detailed statistics that deliver a clear, in-depth picture of current fraud issues. Benchmark how your business compares and build a deeper understanding of the key considerations for your fraud strategy with an illustrated view across various types of retail fraud, including:
The study consolidates a robust viewpoint of today’s retail fraud environment with closer looks into how some of the most complex fraud challenges are directly impacting retailers in terms of volume, cost and frequency. In addition to a detailed overview of the distribution of fraud losses by payment method, our report also explores specific issues and impacts related to:
Solve fraud threats by taking advantage of targeted technology
This year’s True Cost of Fraud Study provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of retail fraud and the expansion of the digital marketplace. While retailers are facing rising costs and revenue impacts, a multi-layered approach to fraud prevention that incorporates different levels of authentication and verification tools can help. Our study explores the benefits of a fraud strategy that utilizes tools designed to authenticate both digital and physical criteria as well as the risk potential tied to the identity and the transaction itself. The study highlights the importance of layering advanced digital and physical identity authentication and fraud transaction risk assessment solutions. It also illustrates how a multi-layered solution approach can lower fraud costs.
See the latest strategies to combat the onslaught of complex fraud challenges facing your business by exploring the complete True Cost of Fraud Study. Raise the effectiveness of your fraud strategy and remain focused on core business objectives and the customer experience with LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.