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.

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.

FNA and Proto’s "Trust at Speed" solution wins the 2025 G20 TechSprint, offering a national utility that combines multilingual AI reporting with real-time fund tracing to dismantle industrial-scale scams.