This session walks through a real-world $30,000 credit card fraud investigation that turned into a model of collaboration and compliance in action.

What began as a suspected fraud case at a Las Vegas casino quickly evolved into a cross-industry effort leveraging FinCEN’s 314(b) platform, compliance insights, and law enforcement partnerships.

Attendees will learn how behavioral analysis, quick coordination, and professional networking led to a swift resolution and uncovered a first-party fraud scheme at the Credit Union.

Dark web marketplaces, low-cost AI tooling, and new injection vectors have turned generative media into a fraud accelerator.

This session shows real life examples of these attack vectors using controlled, ethical demos, and — most importantly — delivers real, implementable prevention and detection strategies for individuals and organizations.

Walk away able to spot likely abuses, harden controls, and specific takeaways that you can include in your strategy to combat deepfakes.

It’s no secret that The United States Postal Service (USPS) is a breeding ground for fraud.
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What is a bit surprising is that the USPS can do something about it, but chooses not to. In an exclusive, no-holds-barred interview, Frank McKenna talks with Frank Albergo, National President of The Postal Police Officers Association. McKenna will discuss with Albergo on how mail theft spiraled out of control and why it continues to get worse. 



He’ll press Albergo on pulling back the curtain with what’s happening behind the scenes and how the fix is already within the USPS’s grasp. This is a rare, candid look at one of the most underreported fraud pipelines in America and a session you won’t want to miss.

Innovation inside a bank is a marathon, not a sprint. Go behind the scenes of AirKey, Capital One’s card-tap technology that transforms bank cards into NFC hardware authenticators.

FI's will learn how fostering long-term innovation can lead to tangible outcomes. AirKey was born in 2017 and launched publicly in 2024, supported by a partnership with Prove. This has led Capital One to experience a 60% drop in digital wallet fraud and a 50% reduction in high-risk transaction fraud. With 100 million cards in the market, AirKey demonstrates how to scale internal breakthroughs. 



Attendees will explore the realities of corporate innovation and why the juice is worth the squeeze.

Fraud prevention works best when decisions are driven by evidence, not assumptions. This session introduces an evidence-based approach and shows how real data from the online fraud ecosystem can be operationalized.

Researchers from the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) at Georgia State University demonstrate how fraud actors advertise, coordinate, and exchange services online, and how systematic data collection generates early warning signals for financial institutions. The session closes with a practical case study on the link between check theft and identity theft in the United States, showing how evidence-based frameworks uncover connections between fraud types and strengthen detection, investigation, and prevention strategies.

Waiting on regulators to clarify data sharing to make your lawyers happy is not working. Buckle up. This rapid-fire, forty-minute session is split into two parts.

First, Matt O’Neill and Greg Williamson skip the “if only FinCEN drafted clearer language” talk and get straight to the low-hanging fruit — bank-to-bank data you should have been sharing already. 



Then Jim Hitchcock and Steve Gutierrez take the stage to tackle the same challenge with law enforcement: what data can be shared now, what best practices work, and how to speak the same language. Let’s stop kicking this topic down the road and actually do something. This session won’t give you a perfect template — it delivers easy wins and pushes you to act.

For years, the industry has chased the idea of a perfect, universal scam taxonomy — one structure to classify and report fraud across institutions. But while we wait, scams keep evolving, and having no taxonomy is doing more damage than using an imperfect one.

This session challenges the “wait for standardization” mindset and pushes institutions to start now with practical, logical frameworks tailored to their operations.

You still need to plan for the future: your taxonomy must adapt easily once a universal standard emerges.

We’ll break scams into meaningful components, apply flexible labels, and show how to implement a version that evolves over time.

The first rule of Agile in fraud? It’s never as clean as the playbook says. The second? Most teams won’t make a perfect transformation—and that’s okay.

Join Kyle and Anna for a candid, gloves-off look at what it really takes to bring agile principles into fraud product development.

We’ll spar over prioritization, trade jabs about roadmaps, and wrestle with how to truly partner with agile stakeholders.

You’ll leave with practical strategies to keep your fraud program strong, flexible, and ready for whatever swings your transformation throws.

Fraud doesn’t stand still — and neither can detection.

This session takes participants through the full lifecycle of a fraud pattern, from the first curious data signal to deploying and refining a production rule in a live environment. Using real-world examples and practical frameworks, attendees will learn how to turn raw insights into actionable hypotheses, measure the impact of detection rules with meaningful metrics and dashboards, and continuously incorporate investigator findings and behavioral signals to strengthen defenses.

By the end of the session, participants will have a clear, repeatable approach to translating data curiosity into scalable, adaptive fraud prevention strategies.

Most banks treat KYC and fraud as parallel tracks—regulated, procedural onboarding on one side and high-velocity threat response on the other.

But sophisticated fraudsters have already figured out how to slip through “minimum standard” KYC checks, leaving fraud teams fighting preventable losses downstream.

This session explores how institutions can dismantle the siloed model and build a unified, intelligence-driven approach. When KYC and fraud operate as one integrated engine, banks don’t just meet regulatory requirements—they outpace criminals, reduce operational drag, and dramatically improve customer trust and safety.

The crypto ecosystem continues to evolve at a blistering pace, reshaping financial services, customer expectations, and the fraud landscape. 



This session demystifies the fundamentals of crypto — what it is, how it works, and why every fraud, risk, and operations professional needs a working understanding. We’ll break down core terminology and technologies behind digital assets, then focus on what matters most: real risks, emerging threats, and the practical implications for fraud prevention. 



Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how crypto-enabled fraud manifests today, its impact on customer trust, and how teams can prepare for the next wave of digital-asset-driven threats.

Every executive is pushing their fraud department to use Gen AI, but it isn’t a fit for every process, control, or use case. Internal exploration and validation take time, and expectations are often misaligned with the realities of implementing Gen AI in an ambiguous environment like fraud.

That’s why we’ve brought in three Gen-AI-minded fraud fighters to share what they’re being asked, how they’re responding, and practical ways to move forward and communicate up the chain.

This session will answer those questions while inviting the audience to share their own experiences. Gen AI is still in its infancy, so collaboration is key to learning how to harness its value and keep expectations aligned.

Fraud teams work relentlessly to stop bad actors and protect customers—yet too often their impact is dismissed as a back-office cost line. That ends here.

Great fraud fighters don’t just save financial institutions a ton of money—they make the world safer. This session is about going to bat for them.

Hear how two leaders from different types of FIs advocate for their teams, drive real recognition, and unlock career growth and pay that matches the value they deliver.

You’ll leave with practical, executive-ready strategies you can take back to the office and put to work immediately.

Europe is requiring verifiable credentials and building the infrastructure to support them.

This session brings together fraud leaders from U.S. banks to discuss where mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and verifiable credentials stand in the U.S. today — and what comes next. We’ll use Europe’s progress as global context, then focus on the U.S. landscape: state-issued mDLs, digital passports, and identity wallets from Apple, Google, and Samsung.

The discussion centers on what this means for banks now, including the potential to reduce synthetic identity and account takeover fraud, where real opportunities exist, and what’s holding adoption back—from risk leaders and CISOs to regulators and unclear standards.