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A data-driven response to economic crime in the UK

A data-driven response to economic crime in the UK

Michael Haley
04 Dec 2023

Future historians looking to define our era will have little trouble naming the epoch; we are living...

What is a DDoS attack and what impact do they have on financial services?

What is a DDoS attack and what impact do they have on financial services?

Níamh Curran
16 Nov 2023

ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a Distributed Denial-of-Services (DDoS) att...

Deepfake fraud: the rising threat in financial crime

Deepfake fraud: the rising threat in financial crime

Níamh Curran
31 Oct 2023

As it’s Halloween, spooky season is the perfect time to highlight one of the scariest, and arguably ...

Why compliance is a competitive differentiator when combined with a quantum focus

Why compliance is a competitive differentiator when combined with a quantum focus


07 Sep 2023

Phillip Doyle's professional journey reads like a fintech hall of fame. Having held pivotal roles at...

New ways of customer authentication in payments

New ways of customer authentication in payments

Sehrish Alikhan
26 Jun 2023

Customer authentication has a become a staple in security processes for payments as a way for the pl...

Fraud prevention and cybersecurity in the era of PaaS

Fraud prevention and cybersecurity in the era of PaaS

Sehrish Alikhan
23 Jun 2023

Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers operate on cloud-based platforms and offer services such as c...

The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

Arvin Abraham
26 Apr 2023

On 27 March 2023, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance ...

FinCrime outlook 2023: ChatGPT, deepfakes and the same old scams

FinCrime outlook 2023: ChatGPT, deepfakes and the same old scams

Níamh Curran
23 Jan 2023

2022 saw a number of scams hit the top of Finextra’s headlines. Research found that 8% of consumer...

Netflix’s Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard and the fintech that deceived us all

Netflix’s Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard and the fintech that deceived us all

Sehrish Alikhan
05 Dec 2022

One of the largest event’s to shake the fintech world over the past few years was the collapse of th...

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

Finextra Research
31 Oct 2022

This is an extract from the Finextra Research and Mastercard report ‘Seeking Approval - Acquirers V...

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

Thomas Cattee
06 Jul 2022

This article follows a 7 April 2021 article titled: Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financi...

Financial services businesses must stop putting Customer Due Diligence on the backburner

Financial services businesses must stop putting Customer Due Diligence on the backburner

Simon Mansell
15 Mar 2022

Financial crime challenges even the most diligent of organisations. During the Covid-19 pandemic, fr...