Financial Crime Prevention

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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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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 […]