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Rippleshot is excited to announce Rules Assist™, an AI-driven decision rules analytics solution to empower community banks and credit unions in the fight against emerging fraud trends.

E-commerce fraud now accounts for roughly 75% of all card fraud, causing financial institutions to race to keep up with fraudsters. In response, top Fortune 500 financial institutions have embedded artificial intelligence and machine learning into their core business models. The four biggest banks in the U.S. budgeted a collective $38.4 billion for innovation and technology in 2019 alone.

Faced with more limited resources, community banks and credit unions often lack the technological edge to keep pace with innovations that greatly impact customer experience. Rippleshot Rules Assist was developed to address technology gaps smaller financial institutions face in their back office to efficiently protect their customers. Financial institutions will be able to cost effectively leverage AI and Machine Learning within their existing infrastructure without adding IT resources or staff. 

Company also announces addition of payments industry veteran Gloria Colgan to its Advisory Board

CHICAGO, February 8, 2017 - Rippleshot, a Chicago-based fraud analytics firm, today announced it has raised $2.6 million in its latest round of funding. KDWC, a Chicago-based venture capital firm led the group of notable investors, including CMFG Ventures, the venture capital entity of CUNA Mutual Group.

The landscape of fraud between 2015 to 2016 is best characterized as uncertain and dynamic. As government institutions such as the CFPB and FFIEC begin to play a bigger role in cybersecurity regulation, it has yet to be seen what data security protocols will be required of financial institutions. Also, pending legislation in Congress surrounding data security has the potential to determine federal standards of information security for merchants. Finally, with back-and-forth lawsuits between retailers, payment card networks, and issuers over disputes regarding EMV compliance and liability shift, nobody is exactly sure who will come out on top.

At Rippleshot, we understand how difficult it can be to juggle so many moving parts and develop actionable insights from them. That’s why we created a timeline for you to get up to speed on recent developments in card fraud and payments security.

ABA Endorses Rippleshot’s Automated Card Compromise Detection Platform

Leading banking organization recommends Rippleshot technology for U.S. banks

A fiery debate has resurfaced between financial institutions, merchants, and consumer groups regarding the Data Security Act of 2015. The bipartisan bill introduced to Congress as H.R. 2205 by Representatives Randy Neugebauer and John Carney on May 1st, 2015 explicitly states two purposes: “to establish strong and uniform national data security and breach notification standards for electronic data” and “to expressly preempt any related State laws in order to provide the Federal Trade commission with authority to enforce such standards for entities covered under this Act.”

CHICAGO, December 7, 2015 - Rippleshot, a Chicago-based fraud analytics firm, today announced that it has raised $1.2 million in a bridge round of funding, led by KGC Capital. Other investors include leading financial institutions UMB Bank and Wintrust and FinTech accelerator, SixThirty.

Rippleshot Selected as Finalist in BBVA Open Talent 2015 Competition & ITA CityLIGHTS Awards

Nominations recognize most disruptive and innovative companies in FinTech and Chicago

Rippleshot, a fraud protection company, is excited to announce its partnership with St. Louis-based FinTech accelerator, SixThirty in its Spring 2015 Cohort.

On March 26, Rippleshot and two other innovative companies competed for the Merchant Risk Council's annual 2015 MRC Emerging Technology Awards (METAwards).

On Monday, Rippleshot joined the Chicago Innovation Awards team and fellow 2014 winners in New York City to ring the Closing Bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Rippleshot, a fraud protection company, was selected out of 850 startup applicants by key anchor partners including CapitalOne, CitiBank/Citi Ventures, and USAA to participate in Plug and Play’s 12 week FinTech accelerator program.

We are very excited to announce that Rippleshot has been named one of ten up-and-coming financial technology solutions providers by American Banker and BAI.

We're thrilled to announce that out of 552 nominees, Rippleshot was chosen as one of ten "Up-and-Comer" winners at this year's Chicago Innovations Awards, held last night at the Harris Theater with nearly 1500 business and civic leaders attending.

It’s been nearly one full year since Target lost 40 million bank cards to hackers, and credit card breaches continue to plague the financial industry. At FinovateSpring, Rippleshot debuted its comprehensive set of tools for large issuers to combat data breaches, but this fall the team set its eyes on designing a tool specifically for regional banks and credit unions - Rippleshot Community.

Rippleshot, a cloud-based big-data analytics software company that detects data breaches sooner by monitoring merchants and the payment network, has been selected as one of over 70 innovators to demo at FinovateSpring 2014 on April 29th and 30th in San Jose, California.