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Gus Tomlinson

Gus Tomlinson Managing Director, Identity Fraud at GBG

Fraud in 2025: five trends that are on the rise

As we approach the end of one year and head into the next, we go through a period notoriously rife for scams. Each year, it’s the same cycle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Boxing Day sales and January sales. When eCommerce boomed, so did online purchase and payment fraud, both growing hand in hand. But, thanks to the predictability of fraudsters act...

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Binh Dang

Binh Dang Sales and Marketing Executive at smartKYC

AI and the Future of KYC: Transforming the Role of KYC Analysts

The role of Know Your Customer (KYC) analysts has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, shaped largely by advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and more recently, Generative AI. Historically, the job of a KYC analyst revolved around manually processing large amounts of data, reviewing customer profil...

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Zach Meyers

Zach Meyers Assistant Director at Centre for European Reform

Tackling scams requires a team effort – but the EU is on track to create a blame game

As EU law-makers update Europe’s payments laws, they want to tackle the bloc’s growing number of impersonation, romance and investment scams. Clamping down on these types of scams demands close collaboration between banks, telecoms companies, online platforms and public authorities. However, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) instead want t...

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Alexandre Kech

Alexandre Kech CEO at The Global LEI Foundation

Leading the Fight Against Corporate Fraud: How Every Business Can Embrace Transparency

The scale, sophistication, and impact of corporate fraud have reached unprecedented levels worldwide. Interpol’s 2024 Global Financial Fraud Assessment reports that “financial fraud has increased and diversified significantly [and] represents a pervasive, global threat.” Even more sobering is the expectation that the “magnitude of financial fraud [...

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Nickii Mallia

Nickii Mallia Business Development Manager at Aqubix Ltd - KYC Portal

Strategies for Effective Client Lifecycle Management

Effective client lifecycle management extends beyond initial onboarding. It involves continuous monitoring, relationship management, and customer engagement. Here are some strategies to enhance CLM: Risk-Based Approach Adopt a risk-based approach to client management. Prioritise high-risk clients for more frequent reviews and enhanced due diligence...

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Gus Tomlinson

Gus Tomlinson Managing Director, Identity Fraud at GBG

Fraud in 2025: five trends that are on the rise

Binh Dang

Binh Dang Sales and Marketing Executive at smartKYC

AI and the Future of KYC: Transforming the Role of KYC Analysts

Nickii Mallia

Nickii Mallia Business Development Manager at Aqubix Ltd - KYC Portal

Strategies for Effective Client Lifecycle Management

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Impact Study

2024 Fraud Trends in Banking, Insurance, and Beyond

How generative AI is boosting fraud protection in an increasingly complex environment. As technology progresses, so do the capabilities of institutions to secure data and systems. Over 2024, the fraud landscape has been complex, and organisations must push the boundaries of innovation while maintaining a high security bar as the availability and democratisation of AI increases as we're going into 2025. The tidal wave of incoming regulation in the financial sector is an aspect that will help banking and insurance companies to safeguard their customers and data in the best way possible. Yet regulation alone does not address fraud – it’s up to individual organisations to leverage the potential of technology, and review their solutions, processes, and thus ensure compliance and safety. As fraud and regulation increase in the space, technology is one of the key factors that will help banks and insurance companies to address these increased fraud risks. Generative AI enables organisations to deliver hyper-personalised customer experiences, and combining these capabilities with carrier network insights can not only help them significantly reduce authentication fraud, but also ensure regulatory compliance. This impact study, produced in association with AWS and Vonage, examines the current fraud landscape across financial services, banking, and insurance, highlighting how generative AI and network APIs can help prevent fraud while enhancing the customer experience. Explore: Fraud trends in 2024 The impact of regulation Why data is the new gold How organisations can innovate with generative AI Best practices

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Managing Fraud Risks with Synthetic Data

A Practical Approach for Businesses Services Industry The financial services sector is in a constant state of evolution, and so too are the challenges it faces, particularly in the realm of financial crime. This mounting issue has become a significant concern for institutions, customers and regulators alike. The key to addressing this lies in our approach to data - its quality, management, and applications. Harnessing the power of synthetic data and AI tools has become a pivotal factor in business transformation, particularly in addressing the issue of financial crime. The ability to streamline operations and enhance efficiency is a major challenge businesses face, but the introduction of synthetic data offers promising solutions. Synthetic data provides a comprehensive view of all types of crime, a feature that is crucial for global banks often grappling with segmented fraud activity. This broader perspective enhances the institutions’ capability to effectively fight financial crime. This report summarises the discussion had during a Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Red Hat, and explores: The role of synthetic data in combatting financial crime Implications of new regulation How synthetic data enhances crime detection A practical apprach for managing fraud risk  

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The Future of Payments 2025 – Digital, Instant, Profitable?

A Sibos Special Edition The global payments landscape is in a period of rapid transition, with technologies and regulations making a serious impact. Yet looking to the future of the payments industry, how can we ensure that it is digital, instant, and profitable? While consumer behaviours continue to evolve in tandem with this. Artificial intelligence (AI), tokenised assets, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Blockchain, and even more pioneering technologies are shaking up the payments systems all in their own way. Adding to this atmosphere of flux, is an developing regulatory framework which promises to alter this situation further. Regulators are facing an uphill battle attempting to legislate on emerging technologies while keeping consumers safe, and providing the best outcome for payment service providers (PSPs). As we move towards milestones like open finance and more rapid payments, there is a chance the payment ecosystem could look quite different within the next few years. Under these growing pressures, global payments organisations will need to ensure that they are able to bend and adapt to the circumstance, or risk snapping. Never has it been more important for PSPs to collaborate with each other, and regulators, to ensure the best outcomes. This Sibos 2024 special edition report, was produced with contributions from Accenture, Deloitte, EBA CLEARING, Finastra, FIS Global, Investec, J.P. Morgan, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, PPI AG, Swift, and Wise. It explores: The evolution of instant payments in 2025; The modernisation correspondent banking and cross border payments; Preparing the upcoming EU payments legislation; The key to successful digitalisation; The technology innovations reshaping the payments sector.

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FinextraTV

Fighting Fraud with Form3: The Importance of Collaborative Intelligence

In Part 1 of this series, FinextraTV and Chris Oakley, Head of Fraud, Form3, points out why banks remain hesitant to share data, explores the misconceptions around regulations such as GDPR, and where levels of fraud would be if the standard was named GDSR, focusing on data sharing. While many financial institutions continue to be concerned about whether they are breaching rules and obligations, in certain situations, the fact that sharing data for fraud prevention can be useful and is a legitimate reason, is lost. To avoid this vicious circle, banks must take advantage of collaborative intelligence to mitigate rising financial crime cases such as APP fraud scams and share data where insights and intelligence can be exchanged between organisations in a secure environment, building a collaborative view.

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Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

6 social media scams to look out for

Social media firms have been under increased pressure to improve fraud monitoring due to scams originating on the platforms. This comes after Authorised Push Payment (APP) victim reimbursement scheme came into effect on 7 October. Payment Service Providers are required to reimburse victims of APP fraud up to £85,000, but some are arguing social me...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Hurricane Milton: How to avoid natural disaster scams and fraud

As Hurricane Milton gradually tracks away from Florida, leaving deadly storm surges, flooding rain and high winds in its path, it is an unfortunate reality that fraudsters will try and capitalise on the misfortune and vulnerability of those affected. This week, the US Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financi...

Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

What you need to know about APP reimbursement

Authorised Push Payment (APP) victim reimbursement scheme comes into effect today under rules from the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). Payment service providers (PSPs) are now required to reimburse victims of APP fraud, up to £85,000, split evenly between the sending and receiving PSP. Reimbursement is likely great news for many consumers, howeve...