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Robert Houghton

Robert Houghton Founder at Insightful Technology

Banks must seize control of their dangerous data silos

Remaining compliant in today’s financial services industries requires a comprehensive surveillance function. Every call, message and communication between employees, customers and trading partners must be captured, stored and monitored to illustrate compliance. As regulatory requirements have become more demanding, many banks have sought to plug ga...

/regulation /crime

Iain Swaine

Iain Swaine Director EMEA, Global Advisory at BioCatch

A new era of consumer protection: the proposed regulation that has UK banks on alert

Iain Swaine, Global Advisory Director EMEA, BioCatch and Katie McKenzie, Engagement Manager EMEA, BioCatch The financial industry is preparing itself for a surge in Authorised Push Payment (APP) scam reimbursements. Why? Because the statistics speak for themselves. In the UK alone, APP scams cost consumers close to £250 million in the first half of...

/regulation /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Marc Smith

Marc Smith Founder and CTO at Conpend

Optimising trade finance: shifting the sanctions-checking burden to technology could be the solution

Navigating complex, overlapping sanctions is placing renewed pressure on banks’ compliance operations and putting the trade finance industry to the test – again. Marc Smith, founder and CTO at Conpend, shares frontline insights on the current sanctions environment, the impact on trade finance, and the innovative digital solutions that are taking o...

/regulation /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Jason Grasso

Jason Grasso Customer Risk Business Unit Leader at Pega

ChatGPT and Other Types of Generative AI Will Help Automate Your Financial Crimes Case Management Pr

In banking and technology, ChatGPT and other types of generative AI is on most people’s mind. In talking with clients they are starting to explore how generative AI can be leveraged to enhance their financial crimes prevention processes. Given that executives are under pressure to reduce costs while managing risk a very logical question to finan...

/regulation /crime Banking

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Retired Member 

Fraud trends in 2023

As merchants gear up to maximise ecommerce sales in 2023, the never-ending fight against fraud means there’s no room for complacency. Valiant efforts to detect fraud will come to nothing if merchants don’t have the right tools to fight it. The speed with which fraud is mutating to evade detection is frightening. Even with innovations such as Stro...

/security /crime E-commerce

Dan Davies

Dan Davies CTO at Maintel

What is the real risk of cutting cybersecurity roles?

How would you quantify the impact of your business being taken offline for an entire week? What would be the fallout on clients? Where would your reputation stand? What would be the cost of recovery? That is precisely what trading group Ion will be considering right now as they emerge from a week-long ransomware nightmare that took down their deri...

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Guy Melamed

Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry

Ion Markets Hack Prompts Calls for Scrutiny of Fintech Vendors’ Cyber Risk Management

The January 31 cyberattack on Ion Markets, a middle- and back-office software vendor serving futures execution and clearing firms, prompted calls at a CFTC hearing on March 8 for a greater emphasis on collaborative responses to future attacks and for greater scrutiny of fintech companies’ cyber risk management. The attack disrupted some activity ...

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Grant MacDonald

Grant MacDonald Director of Financial Crime at Experian

Why UK banks need to leverage cross-industry transaction data to combat financial crime

Financial crime is a major challenge faced by banks worldwide, and the fight against it requires sophisticated tools and approaches. In the UK, transaction monitoring (TM) has been the backbone of banks' efforts to deter financial crime. However, the TM approach has one critical flaw: it does not provide a cross-industry view of financial transact...

/retail /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Oliver Tearle

Oliver Tearle Head of Technology Innovation at The ai Corporation

DARKTRACE IS CORRECT - SIX WAYS GENERATIVE AI ENABLED FRAUD THREATENS THE PAYMENTS INDUSTRY

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a pervasive impact on our lives, with many experts sharing their opinions on the technology’s industry changing commercial potential and how it might be used in future. I recently shared my thoughts on how the technology would change the payments industry, but while there are many positive ap...

/payments /crime Exposing Financial Crime

Richard McCall

Richard McCall CEO at Armalytix

FTX was crypto’s canary. Financial institutions ignore its demise at their peril

Despite a raft of recent issues, financial institutions remain determined to dive deeper into crypto. This presents real risks to institutions – and that it is imperative that they take precautions to properly protect themselves against the ever-present spectre of fraud and money laundering. The ink is still yet to dry on stories of the FTX coll...

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