Fraud Prevention

09 Apr 2025

Lithuania fines Revolut 3.5 million euros for money-laundering prevention failures

Lithuania’s central bank has fined Britain’s most valuable start-up, Revolut 3.5 million euros ($3.83 million) for failures in money-laundering prevention, the bank said on Monday.

Fintech companies caught up in tariff turmoil

08 Apr 2025

Financial technology companies like Robinhood and buy now, pay later provider Affirm have been caught in the whirlwind of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, sending shares sharply downward amid fears about worsening consumer finances.

American View: When is a person “fully trained” in phishing defence?

08 Apr 2025

Sometime last year — don’t remember exactly when — I got into a friendly argument with another security awareness professional about the desired “end state” for phishing defence training.

FinTechTalk: The future of AML – moving from detection to prevention

20 Mar 2025

How can AI shift AML from detection to prevention? FinTechTalk explores the future of financial crime prevention.

American View: Why do many “insider threat” programs focus on the wrong things?

11 Mar 2025

In brief, by misunderstanding the causes of misbehaviour issues. I know it’s best practice to restate your premise since some readers skip over an article’s title.

06 Mar 2025

'Gamestop effect': retail traders seen behind Eutelsat's 650% surge

Shares in Franco-British satellite operator Eutelsat rose on Thursday, bringing gains over four days to near 650% in a rally that bears the hallmarks of retail traders amplifying moves on a highly shorted stock.

India's Paytm receives notice from financial crime fighting agency, sees no business impact

03 Mar 2025

India’s Paytm received a show cause notice from India’s financial crime fighting agency on Saturday for allegedly violating the country’s Foreign Exchange Management Act.

Powering a new era in commercial onboarding

25 Feb 2025

Redefining the customer journey from day one by automating and streamlining onboarding processes can take the banking experience to the next level for both corporate and commercial clients.

American View: Understanding and reconciling competing threat models at the gun range

24 Feb 2025

I’m proud of my kids. They’re long past being mischievous little tykes; they’ve grown up and become productive civic-minded adults holding down full-time jobs.

Russia's Sberbank plans joint AI research with China as DeepSeek leaps forward

06 Feb 2025

Sberbank plans to collaborate with Chinese researchers on joint AI projects, a top executive at Russia’s biggest bank told Reuters, as China’s DeepSeek has upended the tech landscape by creating an AI model much more cheaply than U.S. rivals.

05 Feb 2025