Originally Presented: October 8, 2026
Financial crime increasingly begins long before a fraudulent transaction occurs. Across dark web forums, encrypted messaging platforms and underground marketplaces, stolen checks, payment cards and online banking credentials are bought, sold and resold at scale — often for days or weeks before anything is presented at a branch or a login screen. Institutions see the crime only when it arrives.
Nasdaq Verafin has partnered with Q6 Cyber, which delivers dark web fraud intelligence purpose-built for financial institutions. By combining Q6 Cyber’s first-hand access to the communities where stolen instruments are traded with Nasdaq Verafin’s consortium data and fraud analytics, institutions gain a critical time advantage: confirmed compromises surfaced in the same workflow they already use to investigate fraud, while there is still time to act.
In this session, industry experts from Q6 Cyber and Nasdaq Verafin explore the evolving role of dark web intelligence in financial crime prevention, and how institutions can put external intelligence to work inside their existing fraud strategies. Using check fraud as a real-world example — where the average time from Q6 Cyber’s detection of a stolen check to the first fraudulent check being returned was 10.3 days — the panel examines how a confirmed compromise identified before the transaction can uncover risk, inform investigations and support earlier intervention.
