In the dawn of the digital era, fraud in the banking industry seems to upsurge rapidly. This is a global challenge since financial criminals are utilizing technology in unexpected ways. Fraud and anomalies in banking can be fought back with an effective fraud management model. Banks need to embrace advanced technology to detect, prevent and mitigate fraud apart from delivering excellent customer service.
An Effective Fraud Management Involves
- Digital Transformation: By integrating emerging technologies into the system, banks can process the multitude of data effortlessly. They can run timely checks that can alert banks on anomalies and help prevent/mitigate frauds.
- Integrate emerging technologies like AI and ML: Optimizing data with the help of advanced technology in analyzing patterns helps banks to foresee risks.
- Verification of customer’s public records: This can help banks to analyses the creditworthiness of the applicant by verifying public records like work history, credit history, etc.
- Probe into customer’s financial history: Analyze tax filings to detect any fraudulent activities.
Data Analytics to Prevent Fraud in Banking
A powerful fraud detection solution can be built utilizing advanced analytics. By monitoring transactions in real-time and implementing predictive analytics on the data, banks can draw fraud scoring, which helps them to detect fraud. Data analytics can also be used in mitigating check tampering, one of the most common frauds in banking. By analyzing customers’ history in terms of missed duplicate/void cheques, analytics can alert banks in cheque fraud cases, therefore, preventing them.
To wrap this up, innovative technologies of the present day have made banking criminals skillful and strong. Banks can become stronger only by adopting advanced and interactive technology.
Advanced analytics, AI & ML, and necessary technologies when integrated into the banking system can build a potential fraud defensive environment. An effective fraud management model can reduce operational costs, prevent, detect and manage fraud. Promote smarter decisions and increases ROI.
