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Fraud Forward

Fraud Forward is a banking-focused podcast bringing together fraud fighters, risk leaders, and financial crime experts to explore how fraud is evolving, and how financial institutions must adapt. Each episode features practical, candid conversations with teams in the trenches, covering strategy, governance, prevention, and recovery. Rather than chasing headlines, Fraud Forward focuses on what’s working, what’s changing, and what fraud leaders need to prepare for as financial crime accelerates. This

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26:43

Fraud Follows the Money: What Washington & Vegas Have...

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2026/10/07

What's up fraud fighters and welcome back to Fraud Forward!I just got home from Las Vegas at four in the morning on Friday after starting the week in Washington DC. I am home for exactly two more sleeps before I turn around and leave again. Today there is no guest. It is just me, my microphone, and a notebook full of things to talk about.I started the week at HHS then I flew from DC to Vegas for ACAMS The Assembly. Two completely different rooms. Yet I kept writing down versions of the same thing

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54:35

How to Build a Fraud Program: Fraud at the Foundation

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2026/09/30

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Today I’m sitting in the guest chair.If you caught the episode of The Saturday Fraud Strategist that dropped alongside this one, you already know Chen Zamir and I decided to swap roles. He came on Fraud Forward to interview me, and I went on his show to interview him. We are heading to Money 20/20 in Vegas together and thought this would be a fun way to kick it off.I spend a lot of time asking questions. Sitting on the other side of the mic

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52:02

IAFCI, part 3: Bust Out Fraud and What’s Trending

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2026/09/23

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!I am bringing you more from here at IAFCI in Nashville. I've caught up with fraud fighters, bank executives, and law enforcement leaders for a rapid-fire soundcheck on where fraud is headed. I've been asking everyone I sit down with the same question. If you had one word to describe fraud in 2026, what would it be? The answers ranged from trending and explosive, to complex, and evolving. Sometimes fraud couldn't be contained by only one

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42:05

IAFCI, part 2: Fraud Fighter Sound Check on B2B Fraud

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2026/09/16

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This episode is another one that is unplugged, on the road, and recorded live at IAFCI International in Nashville. I am spending more time talking with the people who fight fraud from every angle. This time we talked about consumer fraud, identity theft, romance scams, account takeover on someone’s personal banking app, and the stuff that leads to the nightly news. But businesses get defrauded too, and when they do, it doesn’t just hit a

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42:52

IAFCI Nashville: Unplugging Fraud, One Connection at...

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2026/09/09

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This episode is recorded live and unplugged on the conference floor at IAFCI International in Nashville. I couldn’t fit everything I loved into one tidy gathering. Instead I’m bringing you the open floor conversations that, for me, are helping to unravel fraud and are weaving together fraud fighters.The headliner here is Michael Perez, the first ever fraudster turned fraud fighter to appear on Fraud Forward. What happened in his story is

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40:40

Fireside chat: AI-driven fraud attacks

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2026/09/02

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This one is recorded live at SardineCon as a fireside chat. You’re getting the real, unscripted version of a conversation I had with Andrew Austin from Sardine and Arjun Ramakrishnan from GoDaddy. This one involves no rehearsed talking points. Just a conversation in front of a room full of people who live this work every day. Arjun brought the merchant and payments side. Andrew brought the fraud technology side. We sat down to talk about AI

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31:02

SardineCon 2026 Debrief: Live from the Show Floor

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2026/08/26

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This one’s a little different. I recorded this episode live on the floor at SardineCon 2026, and instead of one long sit down with a single guest, you're getting a debrief of the day. One conversation after another, right where they happened.I kicked things off by catching up with Simon Taylor after his opening keynote. From there I sat down with Tal Link, Vice President at City National Bank, who’s spent 17 years in payment risk and

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51:02

More than a transaction: What Happened to the Career...

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2026/08/19

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This one started with a can of hairspray. Jen Lamont and I were getting ready for a networking event, and somehow a conversation about hair products turned into a conversation about the future of fraud prevention in banking. Because we ended up talking about her mom. A career teller in banking for decades. Someone who knew multiple generations of families, who turned down promotions to stay at the window because she loved the people, who

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01:01:55

How Vault.Bank launched digital banking without...

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2026/08/12

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Community banks know they need digital transformation in banking to stay competitive. They also know one bad launch can overwhelm a fraud team, frustrate customers, and torch years of trust. So today we're going beyond the headline case study to unpack how one community bank actually pulled it off.I'm joined by Omar Hamden, Chief Experience Officer at Vault.Bank, and Jorge Garcia, CEO of Linker Finance, to talk about how a 120-year-old

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58:37

Trust is under attack: Inside the world of deepfakes,...

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2026/08/05

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This episode opens a little differently. And if you are not paying close attention, you will probably believe it was me. It sounds like me, it looks like me, but every bit of it is a deepfake created with artificial intelligence in about twenty minutes for less than five dollars. That is not a future threat. That is today.Andrew Austin is one of my favorite people to talk to because he does not do hype. He spends a lot of time exploring

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38:55

Breaking down silos at the ACFE global fraud conference

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2026/07/29

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!I always say fraud is a team sport, and this episode is exactly why.I recorded these conversations live from the ACFE fraud conference in Boston, sitting down with five fraud fighters who each bring a completely different piece of the puzzle. Law enforcement. Banking. Government. Fintech. BSA. Investigations. Every single one of them came back to the same point: we cannot fight fraud alone, and the silos we work in are one of the biggest

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26:01

The reverse card: Live from ACFE

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2026/07/22

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This episode is a little different, and honestly, a lot of fun. We recorded this one live from the ACFE conference while playing a game of Uno. And if you've worked in fraud long enough, you already know why that felt like the perfect setup. Just when you think you've figured everything out, someone throws down a reverse card, the rules change, and suddenly you're solving a completely different problem.Joining me are three incredible fraud

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11:19

Beyond the Button: Investigating fraud in the age of...

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2026/07/15

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Over the last few months, I've had more conversations about agentic payments than just about any other topic. At conferences, on webinars, and in discussions with some of the smartest people in payments, compliance, and fraud, one thing has become clear to me: I think we're asking the wrong question.Most people want to know whether AI will start moving money.The question I keep coming back to is this: How do fraud teams investigate

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40:01

Inside Deconflict: Bridging Law Enforcement and Banking

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2026/07/08

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!In this episode, I’m sitting down with Mudassar Malik, Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service and Founder and CEO of Deconflict.com, to talk about something our industry needs to get a whole lot better at: financial crime deconflict.Money mule networks do not care where one institution’s visibility ends and another one begins. Pig butchering scams, romance scams, business email compromise, BEC fraud, account takeover, wire fraud, they

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13:35

From Liability to Visibility: The Real Story Behind...

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2026/07/01

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Today we are talking about ACH compliance, and I know that may not sound like the most exciting opener in the world, but if you work in fraud, payments, operations, compliance, treasury, management, or anywhere near ACH this matters because ACH is one of the most widely used payment rails in the country. And when something goes wrong, it doesn’t just stay contained to one team. It impacts customers, creates operational strain, introduces

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01:05:07

The Hidden Infrastructure Behind Modern Money Movement

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2026/06/24

What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward:Y’all, this episode is one of those conversations where I found myself taking notes while we were recording. Matt Janiga from Modern Treasury joined me to talk about hidden fraud infrastructure.We talk all the time about faster payments, one API, better vendor tooling, AI agents, global money movement, and payment modernization. But underneath all of that is a much more complicated reality. There are payment rails, reversibility rules, KYC

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38:10

The Most Underrated Law Enforcement Agency in Fintech

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2026/06/17

What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome to Fraud Forward.In this episode, I am sitting down with Eric Shen, inspector in charge of the criminal investigations group for the United States Postal Inspection Service, to talk about something I think way too many fraud teams overlook: USPIS financial crime.When financial crime escalates, most of us immediately think FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security, or local law enforcement. And listen, those partners matter. But the Postal Inspection Service is one

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50:36

AI, Payments & the Future of Fraud Operations — Live...

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2026/06/10

What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome to Fraud Forward.I recorded this live from Safeguard’s AI Deep Dive Retreat at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, and y’all, let me tell you something: this was not just another room full of AI buzzwords. This was fraud leaders, payment experts, financial institution professionals, fintech voices, marketplace operators, and risk leaders all sitting in the same place asking one very real question.What happens to fraud prevention when artificial intelligence

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55:49

Accelerate What, Exactly? The Fraud Side of Fintech...

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2026/06/03

What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!This conversation is one I think a lot of us need right now.Financial services are moving fast. Fintech innovations, AI in financial services, real-time payments, embedded finance, digital assets, and payment systems modernization are all changing how institutions serve members and customers.And let me just assure you, fraud fighters are not anti-innovation.We are not the department of no. We are the people who know what happens when

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13:31

Fraud as Infrastructure

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2026/05/27

What’s up, fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!I want to take a moment and talk about something bigger than one scam trend, one crypto headline, or one fraud typology. We are talking about fraud as infrastructure.Because what we are seeing right now is not isolated activity. Organized fraud networks are operating like coordinated systems, connecting pig butchering scams, social engineering scams, mule accounts, crypto money laundering, fraud and AML gaps, and national security and

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