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AI-Driven Financial Crime Pushes New Limits on Illicit Activity

26 May 26 @ 20:23

The scale of global financial crime has reached unprecedented levels, with illicit financial activity estimated to have surged to $4.4 trillion in 2025, according to new research from Nasdaq Verafin.... read more

The friendly-fraud frontier: Why regulated verticals are setting the bar for agentic defences

20 May 26 @ 10:57

Friendly fraud is not immune to the march of AI, and indeed, the emergence of automated tech as a defence against chargebacks has been embraced in industries with the strictest... read more

Stolen payment cards become a low-cost commodity

14 May 26 @ 13:44

Stolen UK payment card details are being sold on dark web marketplaces for around £9, according to research from NordVPN and threat exposure platform NordStellar. The finding underlines an uncomfortable... read more

E-commerce payments enter the age of managed complexity

11 May 26 @ 19:54

The global e-commerce payments market is no longer simply a story of digital adoption. It is becoming a test of operational control. The 2026 Global e-commerce Payments & Fraud Report,... read more

FIS and Anthropic take aim at banks’ AML burden

06 May 26 @ 16:46

FIS has joined forces with Anthropic to develop a Financial Crimes AI Agent, in a move that highlights how quickly agentic artificial intelligence is moving from experimental technology into the... read more

Meta fraud pressure grows as Payments Association calls for shared liability

31 Mar 26 @ 19:08

The Payments Association has escalated pressure on ministers and regulators to confront what it describes as a structural failure at the heart of the UK’s fraud regime: the platforms where... read more

AI fraud is becoming industrialised — and banks are running out of time

26 Mar 26 @ 19:03

Fraud in digital finance is no longer best understood as a series of isolated scams carried out by opportunistic criminals. It is increasingly operating as an industrialised system: fast, scalable... read more

When AI shops on your behalf, who owns the transaction?

24 Feb 26 @ 12:26

The next evolution of digital commerce may not be driven by consumers clicking ‘buy now’, but by AI acting on their behalf. According to dispute specialist Chargebacks911, that shift could... read more

PSR fines Bank of Ireland £3.7m for Confirmation of Payee breach

20 Feb 26 @ 19:10

The UK’s payments watchdog has imposed a £3.78m penalty on Bank of Ireland UK after the lender failed to meet the regulatory deadline for implementing Confirmation of Payee (CoP), a... read more

Open Banking continues to outperform on fraud

28 Jan 26 @ 21:23

Open Banking has long been promoted as a safer, more controlled alternative to legacy payment rails. New evidence from Open Banking Limited’s latest financial crime update reinforces that claim —... read more

Fraud has become the hidden cost of Europe’s e-commerce boom

22 Jan 26 @ 17:05

Europe’s retail economy is undergoing a structural shift. E-commerce has moved from being a complementary sales channel to the primary growth engine for many merchants. Online sales now dominating strategic... read more

A new front line in the global fight against payment fraud

16 Jan 26 @ 13:37

As global scam losses climb beyond $400bn annually, payment fraud is evolving faster than the controls designed to stop it. Against this backdrop, Scamnetic is repositioning its patented IDeveryone technology... read more

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Visa turns the card into an identity credential

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. [caption id="atta... more

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from t... more

Santander backs Ebury’s next phase with fresh funding

05 May 26 @ 16:52

Banco Santander has reinforced its commitment to Ebury after taking part in a funding round of about £550mn for the cross-border payments and trade finance fin... more