Risk Management news and trends

Card Issuers Speed Upgrades as Fraud Threats Grow
Digital Payments // September 09, 2026

Card platform upgrade calendars are getting shorter. The next major deadline may arrive before issuers finish planning for the last one. Card issuers face pressure from several directions. Fraud keeps changing, customers expect faster digital services and AI is creating new ways to manage accounts....

The Cloud Risk CFOs Aren’t Measuring: What Happens When a Vendor Disappears?
B2B Payments // August 14, 2026

There’s a new nightmare scenario in enterprise cloud computing, and it’s not an AI-driven cyberattack. It’s a vendor simply going out of business and disappearing. That’s what happened to a PBS affiliate in St. Louis, which lost 70 years of archival material, or around 50...

Bretton AI CEO Wants Banks to Kick the AI Tool Habit
Banking // August 04, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Bretton AI’s Will Lawrence Every artificial intelligence (AI) tool a bank adds to solve one risk problem gives it another vendor to vet, another platform to monitor and another set of decisions to explain to regulators. That’s the paradox...

Velera Combines Fraud Alerts and Card Controls in New Platform
Fraud Prevention // July 28, 2026

Velera has launched a fully integrated risk mitigation solution designed to enable credit unions to detect and respond to potential fraud events in near-real time. The new Risk Alert Manager puts credit unions fully in control of their fraud response by unifying data from all...

Interviews & Exclusives
Card Issuers Speed Upgrades as Fraud Threats Grow

September 09, 2026
Card platform upgrade calendars are getting shorter. The next major deadline may arrive before issuers finish planning for the last one. Card issuers face pressure from several directions. Fraud keeps changing, customers expect faster digital services and AI is creating new ways to manage accounts. Older platforms can make each improvement harder to deliver. Issuers […]

Banks Face a New ACH Fraud Test as Nacha Rules Take Effect

June 26, 2026
Fraud deadlines arguably don’t attract much attention outside compliance departments. This year’s changes to the Nacha Operating Rules reshape how banks are expected to identify suspicious ACH activity before losses...

Crypto’s Future May Depend on Lawyers Who Think Like Operators

June 18, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block.  For most of the cryptocurrency industry’s history, lawyers occupied a familiar role: identify risks, interpret regulations and tell companies what they couldn’t do....

FBI Warns: Internal Risk May Outpace Cyber Threats

April 08, 2026
The greatest enemy of operational uncertainty is the enterprise technology that promises to streamline, optimize and automate it away. Most organizations, as a result, believe they have a firm grasp...

Quick Reads
Velera Combines Fraud Alerts and Card Controls in New Platform

July 28, 2026
Velera has launched a fully integrated risk mitigation solution designed to enable credit unions to detect and respond to potential fraud events in near-real time. The new Risk Alert Manager puts credit unions fully in control of their fraud response by unifying data from all cardholder interactions, the credit union service organization said in a […]

FIS Brings Enterprise Risk Suite to Amazon Web Services

May 19, 2026
Financial technology company FIS has launched its Enterprise Risk Suite on Amazon Web Services (AWS). “Upgrading risk software has always meant disruption and for firms managing risk in real-time, that’s...

Plaid Launches Guaranteed ACH Payments Solution

May 19, 2026
Plaid has introduced a tool designed to help customers make smarter ACH-payment-related decisions. “ACH is the backbone of the digital economy and one of the most cost-effective ways to move money,...

FedNow Fortifies Security for Instant Payments

April 23, 2026
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) will launch a new risk mitigation tool for FedNow® Service participants on Tuesday (April 28). The new network intelligence application programming interface (API) provides receiver account-level data...