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Fraud focus
The evolving threat of transaction laundering in 2024
Transaction laundering in the future has the potential to disguise illegal transactions as legitimate by using fake businesses, synthetic identities, and advanced technology.
Fraud focus
How to manage high-brand risk adult merchants
Where there are high user numbers, traffic and sales, there are also higher risks for acquirers and PSPs. An analysis of one of the internet’s largest adult entertainment merchant scandals gives hints on ways to manage adult merchant risk.
Fraud focus
Subscription merchants: Know what you’re signing up to…
The subscription-based billing model is enjoying a renaissance. But with it has come an increase in deceptively marketed free trials, auto renewals and recurring payments. We explain how acquirers and payment service providers can fight back.
Web Shield update
News: Web Shield's Online Academy
‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest’, that's why Web Shield has developed an Online Academy for risk, compliance and anti-fraud professionals.
Fraud focus
Scams during Covid-19 and beyond
An exclusive interview with Steven Baker from the Better Business Bureau where he figures out how scammers have profited from the pandemic, successful enforcement actions, and the importance of cooperation and education.
Fraud focus
On the trail of dirty money
One year after RiskConnect 2019, we caught up with Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, the two Süddeutsche Zeitung journalists behind the Panama Papers leak to hear emerging money laundering stories during last one year.
Fraud focus
The business of cybercrime
Cybercrime has a human perpetrator and victim, just like any other crime. Jonathan Lusthaus dispels some common cybercrime myths and explain how criminals cooperate effectively in a low-trust environment.
Fraud focus
Anti-money laundering: have we forgotten what we are trying to achieve?
Kevin Smith and Bill Trueman from Riskskill take a back-to-basics look at fighting financial crime and remind us what we are trying to achieve with AML.
Underwriting trends
Risk culture under the microscope
Regulation alone cannot prevent wrongdoing in organisations. It’s time to put risk culture under the microscope and ensure it’s fit-for-purpose in 2020 and beyond.
Regulation round-up
The real deal about artificial intelligence
It seems as if currently every company has a product claiming to have artificial intelligence built in, but that is not quite how it works. Hear from the Head of the Deloitte aiStudio what artificial intelligence in the real world really looks like.
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