Exposing Financial Crime

Criminals are smart, and detection capabilities need to be smarter and always adapting to stay one step ahead. Time to drive out pointless investigations and finding true malignancies hidden from existing rules and machine learning techniques. Join us for conversations and articles on how to refocus financial crimes investigations into actually stopping crime.

Michael Haley CEO at Cifas

Payment Systems Regulator’s mandatory reimbursement and the fraud impact

7 October 2024 is a landmark day for the banking industry and the wider fraud prevention community. The Payment Systems Regulator’s long-anticipated rule changes – to make reimbursement for fraud losses mandatory – have officially gone live. In what is arguably the most polarising policy initiative in the history of the UK counter-fraud industry; t...

07 October 2024 /crime /predictions

Gabriel Hopkins Chief Product Officer at Ripjar

Gen AI: A helping artificial hand for compliance teams

Through complex algorithms, Generative AI (GenAI) has been reshaping how we create content, including imagery, music, text, and video; greatly simplifying data processing and task performance. This technological advance not only saves time, effort, and money but is also a game-changer in enhancing operational efficiency and fostering innovation ac...

05 August 2024 /ai /regulation

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Fraud Prevention 2.0: How Neo Banks Are Setting New Standards

Preventing fraud is a major concern for every financial institution. Banks, in particular, must ensure that only the rightful account owner accesses their account and that no incorrect payments are made. This involves tackling issues such as identity theft, accidentally misdirected payments, and Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud. While a few yea...

15 July 2024 /security /crime

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Uniting Forces: A Holistic Approach to Financial Crime

Financial institutions face increasing challenges in combating financial crime. While technology has significantly advanced (e.g. thanks to AI), the methods employed by criminals have also evolved, becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. One of the crucial challenges in this battle is the siloed approach to detecting and combating financ...

17 June 2024 /regulation /crime

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy at Cifas

Driving the next generation of fraud reforms

With a General Election announced for 4 July, now is the perfect time for a stock take on the progress made over the past decade in relation to tackling fraud. For the most part, this was a decade in which fraud felt like the Cinderella of the criminal justice system; a crime neglected by politicians and police alike while other crime types receiv...

28 May 2024 /regulation /crime

Shiv Nanda Content Strategist at https://www.financialexpress.com/

Common Reasons Why PEP Screening Checks are Important?

Considering the highly dynamic nature of world politics and AML regulations pertaining to PEP screening and dealing with them PEP checks are becoming more of a challenging task rather than simply being a regulatory requirement to ensure business safety and security against the risks of money laundering, corruption and other crimes of similar natur...

07 May 2024

Micheal Sheehy Chief Compliance Officer at Payoneer

How to Combat the Looming Threat of DPRK Fincrimes

A joint advisory notice was issued to alert the international community, private sector, and the public, regarding the increased attempts by DPRK and DPRK IT workers to obtain employment as non-DPRK nationals. The impact of these attempts is far reaching, inundating freelancer platforms and introducing additional financial crimes risk on payment ...

16 April 2024 /regulation /crime

Grant MacDonald Director of Financial Crime at Experian

Uniting against financial crime: the crucial role of data sharing

Financial crime poses a serious threat to the UK economy, costing billions annually and undermining financial stability. The National Crime Agency estimates that the cost of money laundering in the UK stands at anything between £36 billion and £90 billion, costing an eye-watering £290 billion to the economy – it’s clear that action is crucial. Thi...

20 March 2024 /crime

Silvija Krupena Director of FIU at RedCompass Labs

Like Meta, banks have a responsibility to tackle online child sexual exploitation

Following National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, it is important to note that the online child sexual exploitation (CSE) model has shifted with social media. What we once thought could only take place in faraway lands is now also happening under our noses in our neighbourhoods. In North America and Europe, we are seeing an alarming increase i...

20 March 2024 /payments /crime

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy at Cifas

Tackling money mule abuse of the financial sector – no place to hide

Money laundering is the lifeblood of organised criminals – put simply, without the ability to move and convert criminal proceeds into “clean” money to fund further crime and the lavish lifestyle criminals aspire to, organised crime gangs cease to function. It has long been known that organised fraud gangs rely heavily on the use of networks of so-c...

22 November 2023 /regulation /crime