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 Ault CEO at UTP Group

A new age, the same threats: How today’s fraudsters are targeting SMEs and what you can do about it

Though it might have been hoped a decade ago that technological advances by the 2020s would have all but wiped out the threat of fraud, this is not the case. Fraud isn’t just on the rise; it’s reaching levels not seen before. Indeed, 2020 holds the record for being the worst year to date for breaches with over 36 billion data records compromised. ...

16 September 2021 /payments /crime

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Scamdemic protection: call a journalist

In the Scamdemic, investigations by journalists are a source of inspiration by helping many clients receive compensation from banks who initially refused fraud reimbursement. At the point of banks saying no to a rebate, the bank scam team trot out with the excuse of their standard lines , ‘We contacted the payee bank and were unable to recover fun...

31 August 2021 /payments /crime

Amanda Mickleburgh Director Product - Merchant Fraud at ACI Worldwide

We all love a bargain, but so do fraudsters

The success of Amazon’s recent Prime Day - this year over 250 million items were sold worldwide - typically results in many other merchants promoting similar sales events. With many merchants hoping the marketing strategy works out for the best. Unfortunately, this presents a multitude of challenges. Not just the need to prepare well in advance fo...

19 July 2021 /payments /crime

Simon Moss CEO at Symphony AyasdiAI

Where the COVID-19 Stimulus Fraud Risks Are – and How to Stop Them

We’re living in a golden age for financial crimes and it’s a good time to be a bad actor. Among the many potentials for crime is stimulus fraud – such as what occurred last year with the major stimulus packages passed in response to the pandemic. In 2020 alone, fraudsters siphoned off $36 billion meant for unemployed Americans, and Californian aut...

18 May 2021 /retail /crime