7 New FinCEN Red Flags to Identify Terrorist Financing

November 17, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

World events can shift in a moment. Financial institutions need to be prepared to adapt to the constantly evolving landscape of regulatory compliance, while swiftly identifying potentially suspicious activity. To assist, FinCEN has issued a new alert with 7 red... 

Stalking America’s Elderly

October 18, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

Fraudsters are targeting seniors with an emerging and sophisticated scam. From January to June, $542M was stolen through Phantom Hacker scams — a fraud that uses layers of social engineering to exploit a victim’s trust and pinpoint the most lucrative... 

A Ruthless Scam

September 26, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

A prominent virtual currency investment scam, with the demeaning label “pig butchering,” is creating significant financial and emotional harm for countless victims around the world – criminals defrauded victims of more than $2 billion USD in 2022. Known as financial... 

Business Email Compromise: Tracing the Lineage of a $50B Fraud Problem

August 21, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

Across the financial industry, few scams are as notorious as Business Email Compromise (BEC), and for good reason. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has announced that since 2013 losses attributed directly to BEC surpassed $50B, representing a nearly 6300%... 

Verafin Named Category Leader in Payments Fraud by Chartis Research

August 11, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

FedNow® Service: Two Keys to Future Proof Your Fraud Prevention Program

August 7, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

The Federal Reserve’s FedNow®  Service has arrived, joining The Clearing House’s (TCH) real-time payments platform (RTP®) in a watershed moment for the U.S. financial industry. Together, these platforms have launched America into a faster payments era — defined on one... 

Collaborative Frameworks: Fighting Financial Crime with a Unified Approach

June 20, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

Financial crime is a persistent threat as criminals continually adapt their methods to target the financial system. Today, financial crime crosses both institutions and borders, making it more difficult to detect and prevent fraud and money laundering. This approach is... 

A Look Inside the Cloud: Wire Fraud Trends Impacting Your Customers

June 15, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

Criminals are prolific and persistent in their attempts to defraud their victims. At Verafin, we know the first step in protecting financial institutions from these pervasive threats is understanding how, to whom and where fraud is occurring as criminals evolve... 

Inflection Points: 5 Key Trends for Payments Fraud

June 5, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

The financial industry has entered a period of significant challenge and opportunity in payments. With the increasing focus on frictionless customer experiences and introduction of new payment rails such as TCH RTP and FedNow, money is moving faster than ever... 

Banking on Deceit: Billions Lost to Cybercrime & Authorized Push Payment Fraud

April 21, 2023 by Colin Parsons

“Today’s cyber landscape has provided ample opportunities for criminals and adversaries to target U.S. networks, attack our critical infrastructure, hold our money and data for ransom, facilitate large-scale fraud schemes, and threaten our national security.” – Timothy Langan, Executive Assistant...