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31
Mar

Travel Chargebacks and the Iran Conflict: Who Is At Fault?

Ben Herut / March 31, 2026
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The conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran has so far caused more than 60,000 flight cancellations since late February, affecting an estimated 6 million passengers and opening the door to a wave of travel chargebacks. At seven major regional airports including Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi, cancellations exceeded 21,300 flights. Airlines, travel platforms, and […]

29
Mar

War Bucks: How Iran Evades Sanctions and Funds Terror

Urriolagoitia Miner / March 29, 2026
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After decades of economic sanctions and other pressures from the West, Iran and it’s fundamentalist regime still manage to maintain a large and lethal military. This is done in a variety of ways including state funding, Iranian Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) corporate and economic activity, diversion of resources from civilian programs, and funding of its […]

Brian Davis, Safeguard VP of Marketing & Community

25
Mar

Building Community with Bad Fraud Advice

Ronen Shnidman / March 25, 2026
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Brian Davis is the VP of Marketing & Community at Safeguard – an AI-native community for fraud, identity, and compliance leaders across fintech, banking, crypto, and payments. Founded by the creators of Money20/20, Fintech Meetup, Shoptalk, and Future Proof, Safeguard’s AI-focused events are purpose-built to foster immersive learning and deep connections. Safeguard’s inaugural AI Deepdive […]

19
Mar

Interpol Estimates Global Fraud Economy at $442 Billion

Ronen Shnidman / March 19, 2026
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Fraud has now cemented itself as one of the top five global crime threats, alongside drug trafficking and money laundering, according to the second edition of the Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment by Interpol. The numbers alone are staggering. Global losses from financial fraud reached an estimated $442 billion in 2025, with law enforcement seeing […]

18
Mar

POVA and the Data Detective Companies Call When the Numbers Don’t Add Up

Ronen Shnidman / March 18, 2026
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Roy Daya is the CEO of POVA, a company that provides its namesake private intelligence tool to owners and their counsel. POVA builds behavioral baselines from operational data to surface early‑stage fraud and manipulation patterns — and quietly harden the processes that enable them. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the video recording of this interview […]

16
Mar

Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

Amber McGirr / March 16, 2026
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Fraud teams obsess over disputes. Network monitoring thresholds. Chargeback win rates. Prevention alert integrations. Ratio management. All are important. But if disputes are your primary performance lens, you are optimizing against a lagging signal. Authorization is what sets the trajectory for a merchant’s processing portfolio. By the time a chargeback arrives, the authorization decision is […]

11
Mar

The 5 Step AML Intelligence Cycle

Urriolagoitia Miner / March 11, 2026
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Anti-money laundering (AML) professionals are often heard to lament filing piles of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) that go into a proverbial black hole, never to be seen or heard from again. I may have lent my voice to that chorus over the years as well. A SAR is the result of an AML investigation where […]

India financial fraud investigator Ajay Kumar

09
Mar

Fraud in India: A Massive Problem Thriving on a Lack of Awareness

Ronen Shnidman / March 9, 2026
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India, with a population of 1.5 billion people, represents close to one-fifth of the global population and a rapidly growing market for goods and services. It also has its fair share of problems with fraud. That is why, last month, Fraudbeat took time to interview Ajay Kumar, Risk Manager at one of the leading banks […]

08
Mar

‘The Fraud Supply Chain’: How Healthcare Fraud Is Industrialized

Randall Casciello / March 8, 2026
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Healthcare fraud has evolved beyond the image of lone individuals falsifying claims or inventing phantom treatments into full-on fraud factories with supply chains. Today’s schemes resemble sophisticated, multi-faceted organized businesses: specialized teams handle lead generation, patient recruitment, shell clinics, complicit providers, billing aggregation, and money laundering. In 2025 alone, a coordinated National Health Care Fraud […]

04
Mar

The Arbitration Illusion

Ben Herut / March 4, 2026
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We will address in this column why most merchants misunderstand what “fighting” a dispute actually means and when escalating to arbitration truly makes economic sense The key is that chargebacks are not resolved based on truth. They are resolved based on incentives. For years, merchants have treated disputes like courtroom battles. Present the facts. Provide […]

Travel Chargebacks and the Iran Conflict: Who Is At Fault?

War Bucks: How Iran Evades Sanctions and Funds Terror

Building Community with Bad Fraud Advice

Interpol Estimates Global Fraud Economy at $442 Billion

POVA and the Data Detective Companies Call When the Numbers Don’t Add Up

Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

The 5 Step AML Intelligence Cycle

Fraud in India: A Massive Problem Thriving on a Lack of Awareness

‘The Fraud Supply Chain’: How Healthcare Fraud Is Industrialized

The Arbitration Illusion

Managing AI Employees: Lessons for Fraud.

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