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LegitScript announced new capabilities for its Merchant Underwriting solution. Powered by workflow and decision automation technology from Kompliant, a LegitScript company, the expanded offering combines KYB, KYC, and fraud detection with LegitScript’s proprietary merchant risk intelligence within a configurable workflow built around each acquirer’s credit and risk policies.
Prediction markets are exploding in popularity but also raising intense scrutiny. That regulatory unclarity makes it difficult for payment service providers and platforms setting policy and managing risk. LegitScript talks with the Portland Business Journal about how companies are navigating this murky but lucrative industry.
Bad actors are getting smarter, and AI alone won’t stop them. In this piece for Total Retail, LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling lays out three moves online retailers can make to catch evasion tactics: pairing AI with human judgment, monitoring sellers on an ongoing basis, and tracking activity across platforms, not just one. Read more.
Over the past year, LegitScript has seen a 59% increase in certification applications overall and a 101% increase in telemedicine applications specifically. The growth comes as telehealth has expanded into a much broader ecosystem of providers, infrastructure platforms, and specialty healthcare companies, creating new ways for businesses to reach patients and grow. Read more.
LegitScript announced that more than 10,000 websites have achieved LegitScript Certification. The certification program provides an independent standard for demonstrating compliance, building trust with consumers and industry partners, and meeting a common prerequisite that helps unlock advertising on major online platforms and streamlines payment processing. Read more.
MD Integrations and LegitScript partner to embed certification into telehealth onboarding, speeding up application reviews and helping brands launch compliant advertising and payments.
Karpa Health and LegitScript launch an Enterprise Certification Partnership, giving telehealth businesses an expedited path to certification, compliant payment processing, and advertising access.
Merchants and payments providers can’t wait until fall to lock down fraud defenses for the holiday rush. In this article in Digital Transactions, LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling helps explain how retailers need summer to retrain fraud models, test new rules, and catch gaps before Black Friday hits. Read the full story.
In American Banker, LegitScript’s Andy Bayley talks about a recent case that could pull banks and card networks into the same legal exposure hitting prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
Merchant risk doesn’t stop at onboarding. LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling explains why static underwriting misses post-approval drift, and how agentic AI, fed with merchant-specific context, connects fragmented risk signals to catch problems before they escalate.