Fraud & Security

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

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

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

13 Jan 26 @ 14:04

AU10TIX has issued a stark warning to the global payments and digital identity ecosystem: fraud is no longer episodic, reactive or human-led. According to its Signals for 2026 special edition,... read more

10 Dec 25 @ 17:21

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure.” As a quick refresher, the PVDC was set up in November 2024 to... read more

04 Dec 25 @ 14:07

Financial fraud has always been a moving target. From cheque fraud to phishing, criminals consistently adapt their methods to exploit weaknesses in the financial system. Yet in 2025, the contest... read more

01 Dec 25 @ 15:24

EU policymakers have struck a provisional agreement to overhaul the bloc’s payment services rulebook, marking one of the most significant regulatory updates since PSD2 came into force nearly a decade... read more

27 Nov 25 @ 17:47

A new wave of invisible cyberattacks is sweeping through online retail, exploiting the busiest shopping months of the year and striking consumers where they feel safest: on legitimate e-commerce sites.... read more

24 Nov 25 @ 16:09

ID-Pal has unveiled a significant upgrade to its document-fraud detection technology, ID-Detect, as financial institutions confront a sharp rise in AI-generated manipulation and deepfake-based attacks. With regulators warning that synthetic... read more

07 Nov 25 @ 15:02

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is facing renewed scrutiny after internal documents revealed that as much as 10% of its 2024 revenue – around $16... read more

05 Nov 25 @ 14:11

European law enforcement agencies have taken down a sprawling crypto scam and money laundering operation that defrauded victims of more than €600 million, in one of the largest coordinated anti-fraud... read more

30 Oct 25 @ 13:10

E-commerce fraud is evolving faster than online retailers can keep up, with new research from Ravelin revealing that opportunistic shoppers are now as big a threat as organised criminals. The... read more