Financial education alone can't stop scams. Dr Amanah Ramadiah on why tracing stolen money across banks in minutes, not days, is where losses actually fall.

While traditional law enforcement focuses on prosecuting criminals, victims of APP fraud prioritize one thing: getting their money back. This article argues that saving those funds requires a fundamental shift toward real-time, cross-institutional infrastructure that operates at the speed of the payment itself.

At the Inclusive Fintech Forum in Rwanda, FNA's Kimmo Soramäki highlighted the critical challenge of securing booming real-time payment networks against escalating financial crime without sacrificing speed or financial inclusion. The panel emphasized that overcoming the limitations of siloed compliance requires a shift toward coordinated, network-wide intelligence and collaborative national anti-scam infrastructures.

The shift to instant payments has accelerated complex, cross-bank fraud that siloed bank data cannot detect. By establishing national data-sharing hubs and deploying advanced network analytics, authorities and banks can trace illicit money trails in real time and intercept scams before funds are lost.