Carreker
Corporation Press Release - April
11, 2005
Carreker and ID Analytics Announce
Alliance to Fight Identity Fraud
in Retail Banking
Combined Solution to Address
Payment and Deposit Fraud Schemes
Employed by Sophisticated Fraudsters
NACHA PAYMENTS
2005, SAN ANTONIO, TX AND SAN DIEGO,
CA, April 11, 2005— Carreker
Corporation (Nasdaq: CANI), a leading
provider of technology and consulting
solutions for the financial industry,
and ID Analytics, Inc., the Identity
Risk Management company, today announced
an alliance.
Through this alliance, each company
will strengthen its ability to detect
identity fraud at the point of application
and at the point of deposit, as well
as during a change to a deposit account.
The combined solution will help both
companies better manage identity
risk across the customer lifecycle,
particularly at these points where
sophisticated fraudsters manipulate
payments to finance and further their
crimes.
Deposit fraud remains at the top
of the list of financial institutions'
risk management concerns. In its
recently released Deposit Account
Survey, the American Bankers Association
stated that for the commercial banking
industry as a whole, actual gross
losses (before recoveries) from check
fraud amounted to $677 million in
2003. Forty percent of the survey's
respondents ranked identity theft
as the number one emerging risk,
followed by 21 percent who viewed
check fraud as the leading threat.
Carreker and ID Analytics solutions
address both these types of fraud.
As a leader in advanced software
applications for fraud detection
and risk management, Carreker Corporation’s
solutions address the growing identity
risk challenges related to demand
deposit, check security and the electronic
payments processing environment.
ID Analytics leads the market in
identity fraud prevention with its
ID Network, the first and only national
system developed exclusively to manage
identity risk, fueled in real time
by a steady stream of identity elements
across multiple industries, learning
constantly as new elements appear
on the network.
Bruce Hansen, chairman and CEO of
ID Analytics, said, “Our alliance
with Carreker will allow the retail
bank marketplace to leverage the
ID Network and its hundreds of millions
of identity patterns, both real and
suspicious. The combination of our
core capabilities will yield significant
advances in the ability to detect
several types of identity fraud,
while reducing costs associated with
manual operations.”
Together ID Analytics and Carreker
will help retail banks better identify
identity risk and ensure compliance
throughout the lifecycle of a deposit
account from account opening through
continuous account monitoring. Additionally,
Carreker Corporation will integrate
ID Analytics’ Identity Risk
Management solutions into its proven
fraud solution suites to enhance
fraud detection and lower operating
costs when detecting payment and
deposit fraud.
“By forming this alliance
with ID Analytics, Carreker is making
the logical move from being the leader
in deposit fraud detection to identity
fraud detection,” said J.D.
(Denny) Carreker, chairman and CEO
of Carreker Corporation, “This
combined solution will leverage our
relationships with scores of banks,
building on the protection we already
extend to more than 70 percent of
the checks written in the U.S.”
About Carreker Corporation
Carreker Corporation improves earnings
for financial institutions around
the world. The Company’s
integrated consulting and software
solutions are designed to increase
clients’ revenues and reduce
their expenses, while improving
security and increasing the value
of their customer relationships.
Carreker provides products and
services to more than 250 clients
in the United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Ireland, continental
Europe, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, South America, Mexico,
and the Caribbean. Clients include
the full range of community, regional
and large banks, among them more
than 75 of the largest 100 banks
in the United States. Headquartered
in Dallas, Texas since 1978, Carreker
Corporation has offices in London
and Sydney. For more information,
visit www.carreker.com.
About ID Analytics
ID Analytics is the Identity Risk
Management company providing advanced
analytic solutions that prevent
identity fraud and manage identity
risk across the customer lifecycle.
ID Analytics' intelligent ID Network,
the first and only real-time national
network built exclusively to manage
identity risk, coupled with its
optimization technology, makes
it possible for companies to balance
profit against identity risk. The
ID Network is already used daily
by over half the credit and retail
card issuer market in the U.S.,
as well as leading wireless and
online consumer finance companies.
Founded in 2002 and based in San
Diego with offices throughout the
U.S. and in the UK, ID Analytics
is led by an executive team with
strong fraud analytics experience.
For More Information Contact:
ID Analytics
and ID Score are trademarks of ID
Analytics, Inc. All other trademarks
and registered trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.
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