Current analysis on payment security, fraud prevention, AML/KYC, and PCI DSS compliance.
Incident Response and SkimmingJapan Airlines faced a 3-year data breach exposing 92,000 customers due to vendor system vulnerabilities, underscoring the need for robust third-party risk controls.
Regulations and StandardsInterchange fee recalculations often cause costly errors in compliance and pricing. Addressing fraud budgets, asset thresholds, and contracts is vital for regulatory fairness.
AML and KYCScope This guide examines the risks of optimizing transaction-monitoring systems for cost reduction instead of focusing on detecting suspicious activity. It s intended for AML compliance officers, fin
Fraud Detection AnalyticsThe Growing Threat In 2025, global fraud and scam losses hit $579.4 billion, increasing at 9.2% annually since 2023. Authorized push payment scams, including romance frauds and impersonation attacks,
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Regulations and StandardsYour sanctions screening flags nothing. Your supplier is clean. Your beneficiary bank passes every check. Then your payment stops processing because a correspondent bank three hops away just lost its
AML and KYCIf you re building or revising your anti-money laundering controls for real estate transactions, you need a structured screening checklist that your team can apply consistently. The real estate sector
Fraud TypologiesThe Question at Hand When the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned eight members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) for ATM jackpotting attacks that stole $40.73 million from U.S. financial institutions as of Aug
Regulations and StandardsThere s a belief that PSD3 s acquirer liability shift will devastate authorization rates. The idea is that acquirers, now bearing fraud risk, will decline more transactions. Payment Service Providers
Vulnerability and Software SecurityThese questions landed in our Slack channel within hours of F5 s advisory hitting inboxes. The BIG-IP Access Policy Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-94127) affects versions 21.1.0, 17.5.0-17.5.1, and 1
Fraud TypologiesWhen Revolut discovered a scammer impersonating a government agency using a legitimate email domain, it highlighted a key debate in financial services security: Is email authentication primarily a tec
Fraud Detection AnalyticsThe conventional wisdom says cryptocurrency firms need to get serious about fraud detection and adopt the same controls traditional banks use. FinCEN recently reported $12.7 billion in cryptocurrency
Incident Response and SkimmingYou re getting questions from your leadership team. A vendor breach just exposed driver s licenses at a scale nobody anticipated. Your business relies on third-party identity verification . Your legal
Fraud TypologiesOver 153 million driver s license records from the U.S. and Canada are reportedly circulating on the dark web, according to claims under FBI investigation. This cache includes front-and-back images, p
AML and KYCYour compliance team can t manually review every transaction. You know this. But do you know how to structure a risk rating methodology that works when you re onboarding thousands of customers monthly
Regulations and StandardsEvery week, fintech compliance teams face the same questions. Your AML team is overwhelmed with high-risk customer reviews, your engineers want to automate everything with AI, and your auditors are as
AML and KYCWithin hours of the Nexus breach disclosure, questions flooded my inbox from compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and payment processors. They realized their third-party risk assessments might have a
