Tag: Fraud

It is easy to get swept up in the power of AI and believe its word is gospel. The technology has quickly evolved into...

In 2025, synthetic identity fraud has surged as a fast-growing financial crime, with lenders exposed to an estimated $3.3bn from suspected synthetics in the...

Fraud continues to be a significant issue globally, with over 59,000 risk events reported in the US in 2024 alone. As fraud schemes evolve,...

As the industry heads into the summer conference season, the mood among anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, and regulatory risk professionals is one of cautious...

Economic crime has emerged as a major global threat, fuelled by rapid technological developments that have made financial crimes more sophisticated and harder to...

Scams are not a new threat; they have coexisted with the financial market since its beginnings. The earliest scam is estimated to have been in Ancient Greece and since then they have evolved to become so highly sophisticated that stopping them has become a Sisyphean task.

While people are very aware of the threat of scams, these unique threats continue to succeed and impact consumers and their financial institutions.

Nasdaq Verafin has published a significant report, "Financial Crime Insights: Europe," which sheds light on the magnitude of financial crime across the continent.

In the face of persistent threats from payment fraud, over one in ten Canadians have experienced such incidents in the last six months, maintaining a consistent trend year-on-year (13% in 2024 versus 14% in 2023), as per the latest report by Payments Canada.

New research from Visa has uncovered the alarming scale of fraud impacting small-medium businesses (SMBs) in the UK. The study shows that over two fifths...