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Stu Bradley

Sr. VP of Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions

SAS

Member since

19 Feb 2021

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Chicago, Il

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Data Privacy Perspectives: How finserv firms can foster consumer trust in the AI age

As Data Privacy Week brings the protection of one’s personal information into sharp focus, I’m reminded of a customer event a major North American bank hosted at SAS world headquarters last year. The bank’s chief data officer led a roundtable discussion with a group of esteemed data and AI experts on the topic of generative AI, centered on the te...

30 January 2025 /ai /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Risk, Fraud and Compliance: 12 tech trends and predictions for 2024

As in other industries, the explosion of generative AI (GenAI) has forced the financial services sector to quickly adapt while riding a wave of regulatory and ethical questions. How will banks, insurers and other financial firms balance the risks and rewards of GenAI and other transformative technologies in 2024? Polling my team of financial servi...

01 March 2024 /retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Caught in a Bad Romance: Breaking up romance scams

In her 2009 hit single, Lady Gaga sings about being “caught in a bad romance” with an irresistible lover. Not unlike the songstress, nearly 70,000 US singles were entangled in a bad romance of their own in 2022: a romance scam. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) latest data reveals a heart-stopping $1.3 billion swindled by romance scammers in 20...

13 February 2023 /payments /crime Fintech

Fraud and Financial Crimes: 5 trends to watch in 2023

‘Twas the night before 2023, when all through the digiverse, Fraudsters were stirring, planning their next curse. Digital programs are launched, we think with great care. Then chaos ensues, and we count our losses in despair. We needn’t look too far into the rearview mirror for examples of how criminals twist chaos and disruption into lucrative opp...

20 December 2022 /crime /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Fraud and Financial Crimes: 5 trends to watch in 2022

As we settle into the new year, it’s only natural to ruminate what trends and changes we’ll witness in the months ahead. As someone who works in fraud detection technology, the optimist in me hopes ongoing advances in analytics, AI and other emerging technologies will stem the rampant, cross-industry fraud we’ve seen in the pandemic’s wake over th...

14 March 2022 /crime /predictions Analytics in Banking

Fuel on the Fire: How COVID-19 sparked a global payments fraud pandemic – and how to fight back

As the rapidly spreading coronavirus spurred lockdowns and ongoing social distancing measures around the world, consumers flocked to digital channels to replace or supplement face-to-face interactions. Mobile apps and online channels correspondingly mushroomed. In the US, for example, banks saw mobile business grow 50% in the first half of 2020. Ne...

30 August 2021 /payments /identity Digital Identity Management

The Human Face of Fraud: Using AI to expand identity crime victim support

Behind every fraud or identity crime is a human victim. It’s such an elementary concept, and yet we anti-fraud professionals are often so focused on preventing scams that it bears repeating. This is particularly true given the record-breaking levels of fraud that banks and government agencies have encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Victim a...

27 May 2021 /identity /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Fraud and Financial Crimes: 5 predictions for 2021

2020 was a year like no other, as disruption from the novel coronavirus pandemic created interlinked health and economic crises. In retrospect, the unknown magnitude of COVID-19 and its ripple effects did little to derail the accuracy my 2020 fraud predictions. Three of the five came to fruition, and we saw partial progress toward the remaining tw...

25 February 2021 /crime /predictions Innovation in Financial Services