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Summary Payment Systems Broadcast #28: Operationalizing the EU’s Article 75
The implementation of the EU’s Article 75 mandates a crucial shift from siloed reporting to real-time, cross-border information sharing, enabling financial institutions to intercept scams at the speed of modern payment networks. By overcoming governance hurdles and adopting collaborative network intelligence, the industry can proactively expose mule accounts, dramatically increase fund recovery rates, and dismantle the economic viability of financial crime.
Balancing Speed and Security: Reconciling AML, Sanctions, and Real-Time Payments
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.
Fraud vs Scams: The Architectural Shift Required to Protect Real-Time Payments
As financial crime rapidly shifts from unauthorized breaches to Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams, traditional siloed transaction monitoring systems are failing to detect malicious networks. To counter the speed of real-time payments, the industry must transition to a collaborative, network-first approach leveraging Graph AI to trace mule clusters and create systemic immunity across the entire financial ecosystem.
Social Media Scam Takedown- The Next Frontier for Anti-Scam Utilities
With social media now the primary hunting ground for fraudsters, new regulations like the Digital Services Act offer National Anti-Scam Utilities the authority to execute priority takedowns and disrupt scam campaigns before funds are lost.
Summary Payment Systems Broadcast #27: Article 75 and Privacy
Article 75 of the new EU AML Regulation establishes a legal framework for private-to-private information sharing, enabling financial institutions to use Privacy-Enhancing Technologies like Multi-Party Computation to disrupt networked financial crime without compromising data privacy.
AI in Financial Services: An FNA Perspective
FNA’s Carlos Leon recaps DC Fintech Week 2025, exploring why AI is the "digital nervous system" required to manage the nonlinear risks of our complex, interconnected financial ecosystem.
Summary of Payment Systems Broadcast #25: Building Trust at Speed:
Dr. Kimmo Soramäki (FNA) and Curtis Matlock (Proto) reveal how their G20 TechSprint-winning solution uses multilingual AI and real-time graph analytics to dismantle "industrial-scale" scams.
Summary Payment Systems Broadcast #24: Tackling Public Sector Fraud
Mark Cheeseman OBE (PSFA) and Phillip Straley (FNA) examine the UK’s "cross-system" defense against public-sector fraud, highlighting how the Single Network Analytics Platform (SNAP) is uncovering hidden connections in minutes.
Ensuring Ethical AI in Fraud Detection: FNA’s Perspective
This article explores the critical role of AI in national fraud portals and outlines FNA’s commitment to ethical principles—explainability, continuous feedback, privacy, and structured oversight—to ensure transparent and responsible scam detection across financial ecosystems.
FNA Insider: December Edition – FNA’s wraps up 2024
From launching Malaysia’s National Fraud Portal to achieving 30% liquidity savings for global banks, FNA reflects on a landmark 2024 dedicated to financial safety, efficiency, and innovation
A Letter From – Singapore
FNA’s Amanah Ramadiah shares key takeaways from the Singapore Fintech Festival, exploring how AI, Project Nexus, and collaborative frameworks are redefining the future of cross-border payments and financial crime prevention
FNA’s Work Combatting Consumer Scams and Fraud Recognised at The RegTech Association Awards
FNA receives the RegTech Association’s Chairman’s Award for its National Fraud Portal, a pioneering digital public infrastructure designed to accelerate fraud recovery and victim support.
FNA at Currency Research Payments Week
FNA’s Kimmo Soramäki outlines a three-point strategy for National Fraud Portals at the Global Payments Summit, emphasizing mule account databases and AI-driven fund recovery
FNA at Arab Payment Week
FNA’s Phillip Straley joins Arab Payment Week in Abu Dhabi to discuss the future of cross-border payments, highlighting the need for national collaboration to fight fraud and drive wholesale liquidity efficiencyration to fight fraud and drive wholesale liquidity efficiency