As banks, merchants and individuals continue to adopt faster payments, fraud is outpacing fraud prevention. How are patterns of fraudulent activity in faster payments different to traditional payment methods? How are the fraud actors collaborating within their fraud community? What are the technologies and controls we need to mitigate this criminality?

This expert panel will share insights and strategies, including:

• The faster payments fraud landscape;
• The technologies and controls needed to mitigate this criminality;
• How can we improve information sharing and collaboration efforts.

If we have learned anything from digital transformation, it's that fraud now comes in multiple forms across multiple vectors - simultaneously. And for financial services organizations to be able to spot and stop these schemes requires tearing down silos and building new partnerships like never before.

Claire Le Gal, a 26-year Mastercard veteran, shares exclusive insight on:

• Emerging fraud trends - and why they are so challenging to detect
• How we can make it harder for the fraudsters to succeed
• Why fraud fusion centers are only the start of the cross-enterprise collaboration that needs to occur

From brazen crypto fraud schemes to landmark arrests and an historic executive order, 2022 has been a watershed year for cryptocurrency. But how is the U.S. federal government both using and regulating crypto, and what is the global outlook/influence?

Join government/crypto expert Ari Redbord for an entertaining and informative look at government's approach to crypto, including:

• Investigations
• Global legislation
• Impact of Biden's EO

Establishing trust within industry guidelines for crypto and other payments is crucial, but how is this trust truly built? Our expert panel will take a deep dive into best practices for transparency, and will address the following facets of the crypto and payments space:

• Increasing importance of third-party transparency
• How the industry is trying to streamline the many different requests for guidance
• Emerging solutions that allow for scalability

Virtual currencies are beginning to play an increasingly prominent role in the global economy. The growing prevalence of virtual currency as a payment method likewise brings greater exposure to sanctions risks—like the risk that a sanctioned person or a person in a jurisdiction subject

to sanctions might be involved in a virtual currency transaction. Accordingly, the virtual currency industry, including technology companies, exchangers, administrators, miners, wallet providers, and users, plays an increasingly critical role in preventing sanctioned persons from exploiting virtual currencies to evade sanctions and undermine U.S. foreign policy and national security interests.

In this Exclusive Session with Lawrence Scheinert, Associate Director, Compliance and Enforcement, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at U.S. Department of the Treasury we will explore:

• Who Must Comply with OFAC Sanctions?
• Consequences of Noncompliance
• How Do You “Block” Virtual Currency?

The promise of cryptocurrency - cross border value transfer at the speed of the internet - presents tremendous challenges for businesses and policy makers. But, according to our panel of experts, those challenges are outweighed by the opportunities to bring banking services to the unbanked corners of the world, to fund humanitarian needs, and democratize finance. We will talk about both the challenges and opportunities in this new internet of money.

Tremendous technology changes in recent years have made exponential leaps in the way we will communicate, interact and transact with each other. The Internet of Things has brought about the potential for embedded low cost sensors on everything around us, on us and even in us. Blockchains and smart contracts with advances in encryption tools will provide for the immutable trust and transparency required to build the foundation of Web 3.0. The collection of all this data will provide startling context to how we behave and make decisions through Better Data Analytics. Advances in Artificial Intelligence through machine learning will change the way we interact with machines, our environment and each other forever. What does this mean to your business? In this session you can learn:

• The technology risks and security challenges to your organization
• How to protect your company against the new cyberattacks
• How these technologies impact your organization on its road to digital transformation

Financial fraud can be notoriously hard to detect and easy to cover up. But does blockchain technology with its distributed digital ledger now offer a new tool to help organizations reduce risk and prevent fraud? Which key business and technical factors will help blockchain scale for the large enterprise? Attend this session to learn:

• More about blockchain and its uses beyond digital currencies
• The value of blockchain to reduce financial transaction time, risk and fraud among multiple parties with a trusted, decentralized digital ledger
• Lessons from organizations that already are using blockchain technology as a tool to prevent fraud

The concept of "faster payments" has evolved quickly over the past decade – from the notion of 24-hour check processing to true real-time P2P payments. Square has been at the nexus of this transformation, and in this exclusive session Samant Nagpal, GM and Global Head of Risk, discusses:

• The role of Square in the new payments landscape
• Impact of COVID-19 and digital transformation
• Emerging fraud schemes to watch in 2022

When a total of $580 Million left two Cryptocurrency exchanges after a sophisticated compromise, LIFARS team was engaged in an investigation that involved FBI, US Secret Service, Europol, DHS, IRS and DOJ. This session will take you exclusively inside that investigation and discuss:

• Cryptocurrency fraud schemes, including real stories from the trenches;
• AML issues with bankers, hidden assets, payments by drug lords and ransomware;
• Blockchains role in tracking the transactions - and its limits.

Payment card transactions have seen revolutionary changes over the past few years – none more revolutionary than in 2020-21 – and Kolin Whitley of Visa has been right at the heart of it

In this exclusive session, Visa's Head of North America Acceptance Risk discusses:

• Troubling payment card fraud trends
• The future migration of risk and fraud
• The expanding role of mobile payments

Customer identity and access management – CIAM – has been the rage for the past year-plus, as organizations seek to create and mine a unified digital customer experience. But these same initiatives are also creating new opportunities for fraudsters. This panel looks at:

• Vulnerabilities inherent in some CIAM initiatives
• Impact of hybrid work environments for consumers and staff alike
• Technology solutions to help reduce fraud

Briefly, this presentation discussed the emerging threats of different types of disruptionware attacks and potential defenses to protect yourself.  We will discuss may of the tools that make up the disruptionware tool kit and how these tools work.  We will also talk about how disruptionware attacks work and their attack methodologies with some examples of recent disruptionware attacks.

Ransomware – it's been in all the news this year. But what's happening between the lines? What are the stories within the stories, and how should security leaders interpret them? Former banking CISO David Pollino dissects the year's ransomware news with an eye toward:

• Critical infrastructure disruption
• How to learn from others' mistakes
• How to avoid being the next victim

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