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Know your fraud: the digital tools we use to access the “trace space” (Part III)

Powerful modeling and mapping technology allows our cutting-edge fraud-identification software to help banks, their customers and regulators understand a fraudulent transaction in an explainable way, writes Vivien Bonvin. Many frauds are detected by banks, but the customer sometimes overrides an alert to complete the transaction despite a fraud warning. In the first article in this series, […]

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How to address the ‘digital readiness’ challenge in trade finance

Never has trade been a greater focus of global attention. Never has trade finance been a greater magnet of digital innovations. Advanced technologies such as machine learning were recently launched on the market to help financial institutions better serve their clients and attract new funders. One theme, however, resonates frequently: banks’ internal systems are hard to […]

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Is your data house in order?

Long considered a pure technical function, archiving transaction data was a topic for the IT people to take care of. The need to access those archives was fairly limited and mostly linked to ad-hoc operational needs. Over the last decade though, regulatory requirements increased the importance of this function, and accessing transaction archives suddenly got […]

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Know your fraud: introducing the trace space (Part II)

Every transaction leaves a digital trace. When your fraud prevention software knows what to look for within that trace, it can distinguish between an account takeover and an authorized push payment fraud, giving vital context to better protect customers from the fraudsters, writes Vivien Bonvin. It’s sadly still all too common for bank customers to become […]

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Know your fraud: distinguishing scams from account takeovers (Part I)

When financial institutions are able to distinguish between different types of fraud, they can speed up investigations, better protect their customers, cut costs and safeguard their reputations. Lonely, distracted, stressed? We all are at some point, leaving us vulnerable to making poor decisions. It could be a handsome man who gains your attention on a […]

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Proven protection against authorized push payment fraud in Africa

When scammers launched a mass authorized push payment fraud attack on Nigerian banks earlier this year, one bank alone managed to spot and stop the fraudsters before any money had left its customers’ accounts. It was running NetGuardians software, write Jonathan Somers and Bernard Rono. Despite many banks increasing their efforts to combat payment fraud, […]

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Co-operate to eliminate: a community approach to beating financial crime

Sandy Lavorel reveals how netguardians has developed a way for banks to share information on fraud risk that significantly improves detection rates for fraud and identifies accounts used for money laundering. In a breakthrough in the fight against financial crime, the Swiss fintech has developed a way for banks to share information on fraud risk […]

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My role at NetGuardians as a Customer Success Manager – Andrea Sagaseta

Meet your financial crime fighter; Andrea Sagaseta. Andrea is the team leader for professional services at NetGuardians in the Cloud Services department. Her job entails liaising with the cloud and SaaS (software as a service) partners as well as with the in-house team that is developing NetGuardians’ SaaS offering. It’s a job that demands a […]

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