ABA’s Benda shares policy recommendations for fighting AI-enabled scams
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Generative AI is making scams more convincing, personalized and scalable, enabling criminals to exploit trusted identities and communications channels, ABA's Paul Benda told senators and offered policy recommendations to fight AI-enabled scams. The trend is echoed across the sector: a House Financial Services Committee Republican report urges expanded use of AI by financial institutions and government agencies to detect and prevent fraud, while the Bank for International Settlements warns that frontier AI can strengthen both cyberattacks and defenses and that attackers may have a financial edge. Industry pieces also show AI can both enable and help prevent expense fraud and complicate compliance in AML and credit card workflows, creating pressure on banks to balance rapid AI adoption with regulatory accountability.
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Because generative and frontier AI are simultaneously empowering scammers and offering new detection tools, policymakers and industry leaders are issuing immediate recommendations to respond.
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- How AI Is Testing the Limits of Credit Card Compliance
Artificial intelligence is giving credit card issuers new ways to improve underwriting, detect fraud, and assess risk. But the technology’s ability to process enormous amounts of consumer data is also colliding with one of the industry’s oldest challenges: complying with lending laws that strictly limit what information can be used to make credit decisions. Brian […] The post How AI Is
PaymentsJournalJul 31 - Who owns compliance when AI runs AML?
As AI becomes embedded across anti-money laundering (AML) workflows, the RegTech industry faces a defining tension: how to scale automation without eroding accountability. According to Napier AI, ownership in automated compliance is not a technical question but a foundational one for how financial institutions operationalise trust. Napier AI argues that automation can accelerate and augment [̷
FinTech GlobalJul 30 - BIS: Bad actors have financial edge in using AI for cyberattacks
While frontier artificial intelligence models strengthen both cyberattacks and cyber defense, the financial costs for both are “asymmetric” and may favor attackers, according to a new bulletin published by the Bank for International Settlements. The post BIS: Bad actors have financial edge in using AI for cyberattacks appeared first on ABA Banking Journal .
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