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APAC Sees 23% Decline in Crypto Fraud

Fintech News

Crypto fraud rate, %, Source: State of the Crypto Industry 2025, Sumsub, Feb 2025 According to the report, these results can largely be attributed to advancements in fraud prevention technologies, with innovations like biometrics checks and artificial intelligence (AI)-backed automation significantly enhancing security and fraud detection.

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Tackling money mule activity: Takeaways from the FCA’s review

Neopay

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently published its findings on how firms are using the National Fraud Database (NFD) and money mule account detection tools to combat financial crime. Others failed to promptly detect new fraud markers added to the database, sometimes missing them for over two years.

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Banking on Intelligence: The Global Sprint to AI Maturity in Finance

Finextra

On the risk and operations side, common uses include fraud detection, anti-money-laundering pattern detection, credit risk scoring and trading optimization. finance leaders cite fraud and risk management as areas in which they use AI. Fraud detection, compliance and customer service are prime areas of focus.

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The Rise of Synthetic Identity Fraud in Financial Services

Fi911

By the time financial institutions discover the fraud, recovery becomes nearly impossible. Why Traditional Fraud Detection Fails Credit bureaus face fundamental limitations in identifying synthetic identities. Cross-referencing SSNs with names and addresses across databases can reveal mismatches indicating synthetic identities.

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Avoiding AI Pitfalls in Financial Decision-Making

The Fintech Times

“For instance, if you take Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and machine learning algorithms, these enable enhanced data analysis and improved fraud detection capabilities, but over-reliance on these systems without proper risk controls and human oversight will create systemic vulnerabilities by design.

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Payabli raises USD 28 mln to expand embedded payments and AI tools

The Paypers

In addition, Payabli is collaborating with NVIDIA to build proprietary AI models for risk and fraud detection, which will be trained using client-specific data sets to deliver tailored assessments.

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Medius launches Medius Payments

The Paypers

At the same time, approval rules, fraud detection, and audit trails are embedded directly into the system in order to reduce fraud exposure, improve visibility, and enable fast, policy-aligned payments without the need for additional software or manual processes.