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For years, banks and payment providers have tackled fraud prevention and compliance through separate tools and teams, leading to fragmented controls and delayed investigations. However, the market is shifting towards a more integrated approach. Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle highlights the need for convergence in transaction observability, fraud prevention, and real-time payment management. Vyntra was created to address this challenge, offering solutions that connect these capabilities around a shared understanding of transactions. Discover how Vyntra can help financial institutions move from disconnected monitoring to connected intelligence, enabling proactive risk management and improved operational efficiency. Explore Vyntra’s innovative solutions today!

A specific imbalance has emerged for fraud and compliance teams at German banks. Detection now runs in real time, on most instant rails, for most institutions. While investigation still runs at the older, slower pace — the work of reconstructing what happened, and proving to a regulator that the right check ran on the right data, takes considerably longer than […]

AI is becoming central to fraud detection and AML monitoring. For German banks, the real question isn’t whether AI can identify suspicious activity, it’s whether compliance teams can understand, challenge and evidence the decisions it makes. Why the black-box problem matters Part of why that question matters are how fraud actually behaves. Fraudsters rarely stick to the patterns […]

As Vyntra marks ten years of growth in Africa, we’re sharing a reflection on what a decade working alongside African banks has taught us and what the years ahead are likely to demand.  The payment and fraud landscape 10 years ago When Vyntra (at the time NetGuardians) opened in Kenya ten years ago, the country had long since made instant payments the default. Driven […]

Insights from Vyntra CEO Joel Winteregg on the industrialization of fraud, instant payments, and the future of financial crime prevention Fraud has stopped being an isolated technical problem and become a systemic, board-level risk. That’s the central message from Vyntra CEO Joel Winteregg in a recent interview with Securities.io, where he unpacked how financial crime […]

Nairobi, Kenya, July 10, 2026 – Previously operating as NetGuardians, Vyntra has spent a decade helping East African banks fighting financial crime, screening more than two billion transactions annually across the region and expanding its capabilities into broader transaction intelligence.

Originally featured in SecurityBrief UK Fraud Has Industrialised. Is Your Bank Ready? There is a number that should stop every payments professional in their tracks: $442 billion. That is the estimated global loss to scams in a single year — and behind every one of those transactions is an uncomfortable truth. A bank approved it. […]

Global scam losses have surged to an estimated $442 billion in the past 12 months, with 70% of adults worldwide experiencing at least one scam attempt and 23% losing money, according to the latest data in Vyntra’s newly released 2026 fraud trends report, The Anatomy of Modern Banking Fraud. Vyntra warns that fraud has entered […]

We’re excited to announce our new partnership with ALLIANCE Distribution, marking an important milestone for Vyntra. This agreement brings our financial crime prevention and transaction intelligence platform to new markets, giving banks, financial institutions, and payment service providers broader access to real-time transaction monitoring and compliance capabilities. For the full details of the announcement, read […]