What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!

I wanted to do something different for our 100th episode. I didn’t want a victory lap. I wanted an honest conversation about payment fraud prevention, where our systems feel fragile, and whether we are building financial infrastructure worthy of public trust.

I brought together Karisse Hendrick, Becky Reed, David Maimon, and Jeff Taylor to talk about what fraud fighters are seeing across banking, payments, e-commerce, digital assets, and fraud research. Fraud is moving fast. Payments are moving faster. AI fraud detection and AI fraud prevention are becoming more important every day. Institutions are trying to balance innovation, regulation, speed, and protection all at once.

This conversation is not just about payment fraud detection or payment risk management. Behind every account takeover fraud event, business email compromise attack, wire fraud case, ACH fraud prevention gap, or social engineering fraud scheme is a real person, a real business, and a real loss of trust.

• How faster payments are changing real-time payment fraud prevention
• Why payment fraud detection must move beyond isolated incidents
• How AI fraud prevention, AI fraud detection, behavioral biometrics, and device intelligence are changing fraud strategy
• Why business email compromise, check fraud, wire fraud prevention, ACH fraud prevention, and account takeover fraud remain major concerns
• How digital payment fraud is evolving across banks, merchants, marketplaces, and digital asset rails
• Why social engineering fraud continues to exploit trust, emotion, and human behavior
• What collaboration, fraud education, and payment risk management need to look like moving forward

• Fraud fighters across banking, fintech, payments, and e-commerce
• Financial institution leaders and fraud professionals
• Risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and payment operations teams
• Teams focused on real-time payment fraud prevention
• Professionals working on ACH fraud prevention, wire fraud prevention, and account takeover fraud
• Leaders evaluating AI fraud prevention, behavioral biometrics, device intelligence, and fraud orchestration
• Anyone who cares about protecting trust in financial services

What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!

In part one, you heard fraud fighters describe the current state of fraud with words like acceleration, chaos, fractured, and explosive. And honestly, none of those felt exaggerated. But in this episode, I wanted to ask a different question. Not just what fraud feels like right now, but what teams are doing that they are actually proud of.

And that is where the conversation shifted.

Instead of only hearing about pressure and burnout, I started hearing about collaboration, communication, empathy, innovation, and people who are trying to figure this out together in real time. That is what stood out to me most at Fraud Fight Club this year. Not just the tools. Not just the AI in fraud prevention conversations. Not even just the tactics. The people.

This episode is really about the future of fraud operations. And if there is one thing that came through loud and clear, it is this: we cannot fight this alone anymore.

• Why fraud prevention in banking is becoming more collaborative
• How fraud and AML collaboration is helping teams see more of the full picture
• Why 314(b) information sharing matters in today’s fraud environment
• How fraud prevention strategy is shifting from reactive detection to proactive prevention
• Why human-centered fraud prevention and empathy in fraud investigations still matter
• How fraud prevention technology and fraud analytics are changing the way teams work
• What fraud prevention professionals are doing right now to build stronger networks

• You work in banking fraud detection or fraud risk management
• You are trying to improve fraud decisioning inside your institution
• You care about real-time fraud prevention and operational response
• You want to understand where credit union fraud prevention is headingYou believe collaboration is no longer optional in fraud operations

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What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!

I asked a room full of fraud professionals one question: describe the current state of fraud in one word.

And the answers? Acceleration. Chaos. Explosive. Scary. Unmanageable.

No one said stable. No one said under control.

So in this episode, I’m breaking down what those answers tell us about evolving fraud trends, the current fraud landscape, and the pressure fraud teams are feeling across banking, financial services, and every channel where fraud is moving faster than our systems were built to handle.

This isn’t just about the latest fraud trends. This is about fraud attack evolution, AI-driven fraud attacks, organized fraud trends, and the operational reality of trying to protect real people in real time.

• A structured breakdown of evolving fraud trends from fraud professionals on the front lines
• A look at the latest fraud trends shaping banking, payments, and financial services
• Insight into how AI-driven fraud attacks and automation are accelerating scam operations
• Discussion of cross-channel fraud trends, from impersonation scams to social engineering fraud trends
• A focused look at fraud operations trends and why teams feel more reactive than proactive
• Practical fraud prevention strategy insights for adapting to faster, more coordinated attacks
• A call for stronger collaboration, benchmarking, and shared intelligence across the fraud ecosystem

This is one of those episodes where we move from what fraud feels like to what we actually need to do about it.

• Financial institution leaders and fraud professionals
• Risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams
• Fraud operations, payments, and product leaders
• Banking and credit union teams tracking fraud trends in financial services
• Industry advocates and fraud community members
• Anyone trying to understand modern fraud trends and how fast they are changing

If you’re in this space and you’ve felt that pressure, this episode is for you. Because we’re all dealing with it.

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