Toby Carlin

In the build-up to Euro 2021, the countries of Europe hold their breath, experience sleepless nights and cold sweats in anticipation of the trials and tribulations of a football tournament. This led me recently to a ‘once in a blue moon’ purchase – England shirts for myself and the family – and I was frankly shocked to see the number of payment mechanisms and BNPL (Bu…

The ‘courier scam’ is a global issue that intensified late last year and presented another worrying trend in the new world of digital payments and card scams. Courier scams have long been a problem, but the threat has gathered momentum in recent months, as fraudsters have found a lot of success and will continue the ‘winning’ formula while they still can find a v…

A fraudster’s perfect storm has broken in the UK. When the country voted in favour of Brexit in June 2016, it signalled the start of a long, painstaking journey to split from the European Union. Politicians clashed over trade deals, European citizens living in the UK became unsure of their residential status, and newspaper headlines provoked more questions than they a…

Just as the pandemic put huge stresses on the health care system, it put huge stresses on fraud and financial crime management teams. Teams that collaborate in person and work with large software systems that have restricted access found that working from home hurt their productivity. This was compounded as the volume of fraud attacks rose. Our latest survey of fra…

While 2020 has posed new challenges in fraud, our new European Card Fraud Map shows that many countries were battling card fraud successfully last year — with the UK leading the pack. Of the 18 countries covered in the report, based on data from Euromonitor International and UK Finance, the UK posted the largest value reduction in fraud since 2018, some £52 million.…