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Accelerate What, Exactly? The Fraud Side of Fintech Innovation
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- Fraud Forward
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- Jun 3, 2026
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- 3349
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Summary
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 fintech innovation moves faster than controls, when fintech compliance is treated like a checklist, and when fraud risk management gets discussed only after something has already gone wrong. In this episode, I sit down with Nyla Cortes to talk through what fintech innovations really mean for credit unions, community banks, fraud teams, BSA officers, compliance leaders, and frontline staff trying to protect people in real time. Because behind every fraud case is a customer. A member. A family. Someone whose trust, dignity, and financial stability may be permanently affected. That is why this conversation matters. What you’ll hear in this episode: A practical look at how fintech innovations are changing fraud risk inside financial institutions Why modernization creates opportunity, but also expands the attack surface What AI governance in financial services needs to look like before something goes wrong How AI in financial services can support fraud prevention strategies when governance is built in Why real-time payments require real-time fraud operations How fintech partnerships and third-party risk management can introduce hidden exposure Why fintech risk management has to include fraud, compliance, BSA, AML, operations, and frontline teams What community bank fintech adoptio…