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TransUnion
TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency that collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries.
TransUnion Biometrics News
ID renting big problem for gig economy; the ‘right friction’ could curb rampant fraud
A TransUnion report indicates that weak identity verification processes are leaving gig platforms, workers and consumers exposed to fraud and…
| Dec 9, 2025 | TransUnion enhances Device Risk system to tackle rising virtual machine and bot‑driven fraudTransUnion has unveiled a major upgrade to its Device Risk platform. The company says the enhanced system gives businesses far… |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Trulioo, TransUnion add credit risk intelligence to fortify onboarding and fraud defensesAs financial institutions face mounting pressure to balance rapid onboarding with rigorous risk controls, Trulioo and TransUnion are rolling out… |
| Oct 8, 2025 | Financial fraud surge forcing ATO and AML strategy rethinkFraud is consuming business resources at an unprecedented pace, according to TransUnion’s newly released H2 2025 Update to the Top… |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Deepfakes on steep rise in South Africa, fintech & banking hardest hitThe Senior Director of Fraud Product Management at TransUnion Africa, Amritha Reddy, has bemoaned the supersonic surge in deepfake cases… |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Catching synthetic identities by sifting through clues in public dataSynthetic identities have become an increasing threat over the past years: Constructed by combining authentic and fabricated information, such as… |
| Sep 5, 2025 | iBeta confirms Level 2 PAD compliance for HID, FPT IS, TransUnion, Private IdentityA wave of new biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) evaluations based on the ISO/IEC 30107-3 standard by iBeta Quality Assurance… |
| Apr 10, 2025 | CFIT launches Digital Company ID working groupsThe Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) has made another step towards the creation of a Digital Company ID… |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Explosion in identity and payments fraud forces governments, private companies to actA common enemy can bring together unlikely allies, and right now the common enemy of banks, tech and telecoms firms… |
| Mar 5, 2025 | Breaches and legacy authentication methods inviting tax, business fraud riskU.S. tax filers face an increased risk of fraud this year, in part because 640 million consumer records were breached… |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Entrust, Proof, TransUnion offer platforms, insights to combat financial fraudFraud is older than money, so it’s no surprise that it remains a scourge on the modern economy. The first… |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Behavioral biometrics, analytics options aplenty as financial fraud gets more complexAs businesses play tug-of-war with increasingly sophisticated fraud tactics, the cost of fraud has risen to new levels, now amounting… |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Fake ID and ATO fraud rising say US firmsReal estate transactions involve significant amounts of money. It’s not surprising that 1 percent of transactions handled by title companies—third… |
| Jun 4, 2024 | GSA testing for biometric bias ahead of Login.gov identity proofing rolloutThe U.S. General Services Administration is testing facial recognition, behavioral biometrics and other technologies for remote identity proofing for the… |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Multi-layered and biometric IDV can prevent pervasive rental fraud: reportSix out of ten property managers said they faced rental fraud in the past two years, according to research from… |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Financial fraud is exploding, fueled by cheap and easy generative AI toolsIf biometrics and digital identity providers seem hyperbolic about the risk of fraud and the importance of data security, consider… |
| Mar 19, 2024 | GSA names 8 identity proofing companies for $194.5M in Login.gov contractsThe General Services Administration has awarded eight blanket purchase agreements to identity proofing companies for its SSO portal Login.gov. The… |
| Feb 14, 2024 | This Valentine’s Day, fight romance scams with ID verificationRomance scams, or scams where bad actors leverage online dating to extract money from its victims, can happen year round… |
| Dec 1, 2023 | TransUnion research shows most in US fear identity fraud, but rates keep climbingDigital identity fraud trends published at yearend in the U.S. and globally by a credit-reporting firm seem to be contradictory… |
| Nov 7, 2023 | TransUnion survey says call centers need authentication help to fend off attacksOften the only humans that consumers associate with a brand, call center staff are being targeted with authentication scams. A… |
