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The state of cybercrime in the financial sector

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

The state of cybercrime in the financial sector

Digital innovation continues to accelerate, but modernisation also offers a fertile breeding ground for cybercriminals. According to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report, surveying cybercrime across 16 countries, the financial sector comes in second in the global cyberincident damage statistics. More gravely, the average cost of a cyberattack is...

09 February 2024 /crime

A data-driven response to economic crime in the UK

Michael Haley CEO at Cifas

A data-driven response to economic crime in the UK

Future historians looking to define our era will have little trouble naming the epoch; we are living in the ‘Data Age’. According to numerous sources, 90% of the data created in the world was created in the last two years and it is predicted that the volume of data created will double every two years. The economic benefits of this ‘Data Age’ are w...

04 December 2023 /crime

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

Níamh Curran

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

ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a Distributed Denial-of-Services (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks are nothing new within the financial cybersecurity world, the first is believed to have occurred in 1999, commonly known as the Mafiaboy attack against the University of Minnesota, but there were similar instances that predate this....

16 November 2023 /crime

Deepfake fraud: the rising threat in financial crime

Níamh Curran

Deepfake fraud: the rising threat in financial crime

As it’s Halloween, spooky season is the perfect time to highlight one of the scariest, and arguably creepiest growing developments in financial crime, the deepfake. Deepfakes have dominated national headlines for a while now, often for especially unsavoury reasons, and for their political usage. They have now become a tangible issue within the fi...

31 October 2023 /crime /ai

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

Paige McNamee

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

Phillip Doyle's professional journey reads like a fintech hall of fame. Having held pivotal roles at Revolut, ClearBank, Tandem Bank, FICO, and Visa among others, he's not just a veteran in the world of financial technology; he's a become a connoisseur of financial crime prevention. As the chief risk and compliance officer at Zepz, Doyle faces an ...

07 September 2023 /crime

New ways of customer authentication in payments

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

New ways of customer authentication in payments

Customer authentication has a become a staple in security processes for payments as a way for the platform to verify a consumer's identity and ensure the transaction is approved and secure. While there are a range of digital authentication processes, a common use case among banks is two-factor authentication which verifies the user’s identity at t...

26 June 2023 /crime

Fraud prevention and cybersecurity in the era of PaaS

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Fraud prevention and cybersecurity in the era of PaaS

Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers operate on cloud-based platforms and offer services such as card issuance, cross-border transactions, and e-commerce gateways. PaaS platforms have disrupted the financial industry as non-bank competitors and fintech startups that are offering personalised and innovative products to consumers. This is an excer...

23 June 2023 /crime

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

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

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

On 27 March 2023, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Binance, as of the time of writing, remains the world’s largest crypto exchange by a large margin. Binance’s international exchange dwarfs its closest rivals having more than...

26 April 2023 /crime

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

Níamh Curran

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

2022 saw a number of scams hit the top of Finextra’s headlines. Research found that 8% of consumers were ignoring confirmation of payee warnings and celebrities like Joe Lycett even waded in on the issues,. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to make people feel more financially vulnerable, the importance of education around scams and fraud i...

23 January 2023 /crime

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

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

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

One of the largest event’s to shake the fintech world over the past few years was the collapse of the German fintech, Wirecard. Earlier this year, Netflix released a documentary titled Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard, which follows the fintech’s infamous and controversial downfall. The documentary is based on the book by Dan McCrum, a Financial Tim...

05 December 2022 /crime

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

Finextra Research Writer at Finextra

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

This is an extract from the Finextra Research and Mastercard report ‘Seeking Approval - Acquirers Vs. Transaction Fraud’, based on industry interviews that explore the industry’s appetite for real-time, AI-driven, data-rich transaction fraud monitoring and the various models, technology and priorities that shape their strategies. In order to effec...

31 October 2022 /crime

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

Thomas Cattee Solicitor at Gherson

Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part II

This article follows a 7 April 2021 article titled: Tech and Crime Series: Cryptoassets and financial crime Part I. On 1 June 2022, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that a former employee of a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, OpenSea, had been charged in the first ever digital asset insider trading scheme. As the associated press ...

06 July 2022 /crime

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