579 Results from /crime
Brittany Allen Trust & Safety Architect at Sift
Walking the floor at the recent Merchant Risk Council (MRC) annual Las Vegas conference, I was struck by how often one particular topic kept coming up in my conversations with merchants across different verticals and sizes: refund fraud. Industry leaders and practitioners are seeing rampant refund abuse, representing a significant source of financ...
21 June 2024 /identity /crime
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
The fintech industry has faced major hurdles due to economic ups and downs and changing regulations. This has forced fintechs to rethink their rapid growth plans. Unbridled expansion is no longer viable. Now, fintechs must prioritise sustainable and profitable growth over the long term. As a major contributor to the economy, the UK fintech sector ...
20 June 2024 /retail /crime Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
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 Exposing Financial Crime
Retired Member
The contemporary banking system operates in a dynamic and interconnected global landscape. While this presents vast opportunities, it also introduces novel challenges to financial security. According to a report by Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services, generative AI could drive fraud losses in the United States to an estimated $40 billion by 2...
14 June 2024 /regulation /crime
Steve Bradford Senior Vice President EMEA at SailPoint
In 2021, a wave of deepfake videos started to emerge across the internet and social media. From humorous TikTok videos of Tom Cruise, to unsettling speeches from Morgan Freeman explaining synthetic reality, AI-driven deepfakes started to capture the attention of many internet users. Over the past year, as AI has bled into the mainstream, technology...
12 June 2024 /ai /crime
The use of AI in banking fraud detection is becoming more and more popular. Indeed, the statistics surrounding online fraud are alarming. Cybercrime imposes a significant cost on the global economy and reaches $600 billion annually, equivalent to 0.8% of the worldwide GDP. Besides, fraud attempts surged by 149% in the first quarter of 2021 compa...
11 June 2024 /ai /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Helena Wood Director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at Cifas
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 Exposing Financial Crime
Clare Rowley Head of Business Operations at Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
The global economy is wrestling with never-before-seen levels of identity-related fraud. Cybercrime costs in the United States reached an estimated 320 billion U.S. dollars as of 2023, according to Statista. Between 2017 and 2023, this figure has seen a significant increase of over 300 billion U.S. dollars. According to the latest estimates, this ...
24 May 2024 /identity /crime Digital Identity Management
Fraudsters are getting bolder and more sophisticated in their attacks on the financial sector. Their increasingly complex schemes are breaching institutional security and eroding the very foundation of customer trust that banks have worked so hard to build. The challenge is: There’s no silver bullet solution. Given the diversity of fraudulent activ...
23 May 2024 /retail /crime Banking
Simon Luke UK Country Manager at First AML
When you think of money laundering, you may picture an underworld of hidden criminals doing dark deeds. You may also think of the real world consequences, which can result in the exploitation of vulnerable people across the globe. Clearly, our collective goal needs to be disrupting the flow of dirty money wherever possible. With such high stakes, ...
22 May 2024 /regulation /crime Financial Services Regulation
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