2010

July

Have you hugged your risk managers today?
One Year later – A Veteran’s Perspective
Can Your System Adapt to Changing Fraud Schemes?

June

Knowing When to Stop
What do soccer (or football, if you prefer) and fraud have in common?
Straw Buyers and Detecting Cross-Channel Fraud
Payments Fraud and the Economic Downturn (A Podcast)
Mike’s Cyber Threat Reading List

May

ID theft - Why It’s Your Concern Too
Identity Theft Red Flags
Cause or Effect?

April

Check Kiting SARs
Is Debit Card Fraud a More Significant Problem Than Check Fraud?
No Need to Worry About Check Fraud - Checks are Disappearing, Right?
Is Check Fraud Under Control?
Bank Fraud Forum – One Year Later

March

Not All False Positives Are Bad
Making It Simple For Investigators To Stop On-Us Fraud
Polymorphism and the case for transaction monitoring
Let The Chips Fall Where They May

February

ACH - Rolling The Dice Or Investing In Prevention?
My Thoughts After Reading Insidious
Using Kiting Systems To Improve Customer Relationships
Under Attack: Threats to Deposit Accounts
Check Kiting
Mining Fraud News

January

Managing Data For Better Fraud Detection
Connecting The Dots
The 30 Year Fraud
Fraud 101: Apprenticeship in Bank Fraud and Social Security Fraud
Understanding Payments Fraud
An ACH Reading List
What I’ve Learned Since Writing Insidious

2009

December

Is America Ready to “Bounce” Checks?
Training + Technology = Success
The Time Has Come
ACH Fraud – The Cyber Connection
Happy Fraud-i-Days!
Take Time For Lessons Learned - Check Fraud

November

Crossing the rubicon: The point of value transfer
IT Execs Concerned About Retribution Attacks
Alert Throughput: Managing or Drowning?
Win a Championship, Lose Sensitive Data
The High Cost of Fraud Operations
Bring Every Tool You Can
Deposit Accounts Bust Out

October

Check Fraud is Growing
Check Fraud Isn’t Going Away
Consumers Can Stop Employee Fraud, Too
Insidious - A New Book On Internal Fraud And Why We Wrote It
Uncovering Collusion When Fraudsters Unite
The Need For Speed
I Love SARs (Part 3 in a Three Part Series)

September

Internal Fraud - Top 10 Threats (Part 2)
Closing The Loop
Internal Fraud - Top 10 Threats
Employee Incentives, and Fraud, Too
Internal Fraud Value Paradox
The High Cost of ACH Fraud
Sizing Up Internal Fraud

August

If A Loss Prevention Person Falls Over, Do They Make A Sound?
Connecting Internal and External Fraud
I Love SARs (Part 2 in a three part series)
Classifying Internal Fraud
Don’t Argue Your Limitations
The One With The Most Data Wins
Internal fraud isn’t new—but it’s news

July

I love SARs (The First in a Series)
History Repeats Itself
Putting Things In Context
The Community Against Fraud

June

The Tip Of The Iceberg
Winds of Change?
A Fraud Tsunami and the Road Ahead
Fraudsters get stimulus too
Know What You Don’t Know
The Rapid Rise of ACH Risk
Check Kiting Remains an Unsolved Problem
The Value of Fraud Prevention

May

The Business of Organized Fraud
Is more consolidation coming?
How much does fraud really cost your institution?
Take Time For Lessons Learned
“False Positive” - Roll that around your brain and tell me what you think
Why does it take a big loss to take fraud management seriously?
Why do we fall for these schemes over, and over, and over again?

April

Bank Takeovers - Now Acquiring New Fraudsters
Data Matters
Fraudsters unite! A look at the rise of collusive fraud networks
What would Columbo want to find fraud?
Deposits matter-now more than ever
Battle of the Bulge

March

Don’t Let Fraudsters Steal New Revenue
2009: The Year of Customer Acquisition
My bank doesn’t have a fraud problem
Top 10 fraud threats that won’t go away

February

Are the ABA loss numbers way too low?
The economy is down, is fraud on the rise?