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Comment by barrkel

Fraud is a cost of business. Prices can be raised to take it into account; different markets have different rates of fraud, but fundamentally it can be priced in.

Merchants are in a much better position to price this in than consumers. Merchants structurally execute a lot more transactions within a market vertical than consumers ever do.

If the merchant can't do that, because deals are simply too high value or aren't frequent enough, then insurance companies or intermediaries (e.g. payment processors) can pool risk across merchants, using actuarial techniques to assign a price to the insurance. For example, professional indemnity insurance for property transactions.

parent barrkel 5 years ago

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