Fraud Trends in Payments | FI Learning Group

LIVE WEBINAR

Fraud Trends in Payments:
Emerging Threats, Control Gaps and Risk Mitigation

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 1:00–2:00 PM ET

Payment fraud continues to evolve as criminals adopt new technologies, exploit faster payment channels, and target weaknesses across financial institution systems and processes.

Payment fraud is evolving faster than many controls.

Fraudsters increasingly combine social engineering, account takeover, stolen credentials, mule accounts, and transaction manipulation to move funds quickly and make recovery more difficult.

In this one-hour webinar, attendees will examine current and emerging fraud threats affecting ACH, cards, wires, digital payments, person-to-person transfers, and other payment channels.

The session will explore common fraud tactics, process vulnerabilities, and the control gaps that allow suspicious transactions to succeed. Participants will also learn how criminals exploit weaknesses in authentication, monitoring, transaction limits, exception handling, and internal communication.

Where control gaps often appear

✓Authentication controls that do not keep pace with changing fraud tactics.

✓Transaction limits and exception processes that are inconsistently applied.

✓Monitoring systems that identify activity too late or lack adequate escalation.

✓Operational silos that slow communication across fraud, payments, operations, and frontline teams.

What You'll Learn

Practical strategies for recognizing emerging threats, identifying control gaps, and strengthening payment fraud defenses.

Emerging Fraud Threats

Recognize evolving fraud schemes across ACH, cards, wires, digital payments, P2P transfers, and other payment channels.

Operational Vulnerabilities

Identify weaknesses in payment systems, processes, authentication, transaction limits, exception handling, and transaction monitoring.

Account Takeover & Social Engineering

Evaluate control gaps that may increase exposure to credential theft, account takeover, social engineering, mule activity, and unauthorized payments.

Monitoring & Escalation

Improve the way suspicious activity is identified, reviewed, escalated, and communicated across payment and fraud teams.

Integrated Fraud Controls

Align technology, staffing, policies, procedures, and management oversight into a stronger fraud prevention framework.

Loss Mitigation

Implement practical controls and process improvements designed to identify risk earlier, reduce payment fraud exposure, and limit financial loss.

Fraud risk crosses every payment channel.

Effective fraud prevention requires financial institutions to look beyond individual products and understand how criminals move between channels, customer touchpoints, and operational processes.

ACH, Wires & Transfers

Review risks involving compromised credentials, business email compromise, social engineering, transaction manipulation, and rapid movement of funds.

Cards & Digital Payments

Examine account takeover, credential theft, authentication weaknesses, device risk, and unauthorized transaction activity.

P2P & Faster Payments

Consider the speed of fraud, mule activity, customer manipulation, monitoring challenges, and the reduced window for intervention or recovery.

Who Should Attend?

Designed for financial institution professionals responsible for payment risk, fraud prevention, operations, monitoring, investigations, and oversight.

Fraud & Financial Crime

Payments Professionals

Deposit Operations

Treasury Management

Digital Banking

Risk Management

Compliance & BSA/AML

Internal Audit & Operations

Strengthen your payment fraud defenses.

Join FI Learning Group for a practical look at emerging threats, control gaps, monitoring, escalation, and risk mitigation across today's payment environment.