Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of fraud investigation, the convergence of traditional Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques and groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is paving the way for a new era of digital sleuthing.
Read MoreThe U.K. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) aims to reshape the business landscape, safeguard national security and ensure the integrity of Companies House records by curbing illicit business practices. This proposed reform was the subject of a panel discussion at the 2024 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe hosted in London.
Read MoreIn the closing session of the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe, ACFE President and CEO Bruce Dorris led a discussion on the current fraud landscape, including considerations that fraud investigators and organizations alike should be mindful of when building effective anti-fraud controls.
Taking part in the panel session, sponsored by AuditBoard, was Marcin Nadolny, Head of EMEA Fraud, Fincrime and Data Science at SAS; Natina Thalien, CFE, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Arkema Group, author and public speaker; and Chrysti Ziegler, CFE, CIA, CRMA, Chief Audit Executive of CITGO Petroleum Corporation.
Read MoreAyleen Charlotte, fraud victim turned hero, started off her keynote address at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe with the story that thrust her into the spotlight — a romantic tryst with a man she later learned was a convicted fraudster. Her romantic past — an emotional roller coaster and whirlwind romance, turned negative mental states, turned sweet revenge plot — was the subject of the 2022 Netflix documentary, “The Tinder Swindler,” watched by people across 200 countries around the world.
Read MoreThe fraud reporting system in the U.K. is broken, and there needs to be a fundamental change in the process of reporting cases, thus creating “one fraud ecosystem” that keeps victims a major priority. That’s the message Nick Downing, Director of Deloitte Forensic, was hoping to get across in the session titled “Resetting the Dial: Transforming the Fraud Reporting and Response Ecosystem, Sponsored by Deloitte” at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe.
Read MoreTo echo the sentiments of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs, Nina Schick’s session at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe was “really, really scary and really, really cool.” Schick, author, entrepreneur and widely recognized as one of the first generative AI experts, enthralled her virtual audience during her discussion on the history, growth and outlook of the newest form of artificial intelligence, generative AI. A concept that is less than 10 years old, generative AI has completely moved beyond artificial intelligence as we’ve known it before — it can create data that assists in production of things we’ve historically only associated with human intelligence, such as text, music, images and video.
Read MoreThe 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe featured a compelling session on "Dark Web Fraud Facilitation," presented by Costel Ion, CFE, regional head of Group Audit Investigations for Germany and EMEA Deutsche Bank. By attending this session, participants could expect to recognize fraud risks stemming from criminal activity on the dark web, identify negative impacts to their organizations and determine how best to monitor and control these risks to prevent and detect fraudulent activity.
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