In this Leadership Insight Talk, Mirela Ciobanu speaks with Hartley Thompson, CEO of Microblink, about the evolution of fraud, from synthetic identities and employment fraud to AI-assisted document attacks, injection attacks, deepfakes, and the emerging challenge of agentic commerce.

Every regulator, vendor, and bank in this industry can point to a number that makes them look good. That should worry you more than it reassures you.

As instant payments compress fraud decisions into milliseconds, banks are shifting from siloed rule checks toward contextual, identity-driven defence in 2026.

Henry Patishman, Executive VP at Regula, discusses how modern fraud outpaced verification systems, exposing vulnerabilities and solutions.

iDenfy has updated its hybrid KYC and AML platform, combining automated detection with in-house human review to address rising synthetic identity fraud.

DuckDuckGoose has published a threat intelligence report warning that AI-generated synthetic identities are bypassing digital onboarding systems at scale across Latin America's financial sector.

Fideo Intelligence has launched Verify for Payments, a real-time identity intelligence solution targeting synthetic identity fraud across the payments ecosystem.

Equifax has introduced a new fraud detection product to tackle synthetic identity fraud, a form of financial crime that has increasingly affected consumer lending portfolios.

With synthetic identities on the rise, driven by deepfakes, fintechs are shifting from static checks to continuous identity verification to strengthen trust and AI-ready fraud defences.