{"id":11578,"date":"2018-11-19T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:37:27","slug":"paypal-to-purchase-fraud-detection-startup-simility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/paypal-to-purchase-fraud-detection-startup-simility\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal to purchase fraud detection startup Simility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal has announced the purchase of the startup company Simility, which makes use of machine learning to combat financial fraud. Simility works by using advanced personal identification technologies to identify the behavior of each user. The technology assigns a trust rating for each operation and builds a user profile. Suspicious transactions that do not match a user profile are flagged and block the account. Simility will also provide fraud detection services to merchants accepting payments through electronic wallets. According to PayPal&#8217;s executive director, the company hopes that this technology will also help provide small companies with analysis tools that only large aggregators currently have.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal is purchasing Simility for USD 120 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-11578 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='The most expensive startups to close in 2018'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-most-expensive-startups-to-close-in-2018\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-most-expensive-startups-to-close-in-2018-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12285\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12285'>\n\t\t\t\tThe most expensive startups to close in 2018\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Citi opens API for Russian financial companies'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/citi-opens-api-for-russian-financial-companies\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/\u041c\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0436\u043d\u0430\u044f-\u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-8564\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-8564'>\n\t\t\t\tCiti opens API for Russian financial companies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='New Eurasian Bank e-wallet allows Kazakhstanis to pay with smartphones'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/new-eurasian-bank-e-wallet-allows-kazakhstanis-to-pay-with-smartphones\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/48aed4c7ce564419fae68ea388ad2ddb-small-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10208\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10208'>\n\t\t\t\tNew Eurasian Bank e-wallet allows Kazakhstanis to pay with smartphones\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal has announced the purchase of the startup company Simility, which makes use of machine learning to combat financial fraud. Simility works by using advanced personal identification technologies to identify the behavior of each user. The technology assigns a trust rating for each operation and builds a user profile. Suspicious transactions that do not match &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[416,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}