Fraud remains a huge challenge for governments and inspectors at all levels, as fraudsters today are more successful than ever. Because many cases are so difficult to detect, there is tremendous potential for technologies such as analytics and AI to support investigations. The social inspectorates in Belgium have recently set
By Carl Eastwood, Fraud & Financial Crimes Domain Lead at SAS, and Katarina Garai, CFE - Retail & CSP Fraud Lead at SAS Managing fraud risks in the Communication Service Provider (CSP) industry is no easy task, not least because of the speed at which fraudsters adapt to exploit new
It is often said that cooperation is key to addressing big, intractable problems. The European Union recently highlighted this with amendments to the Administrative Tax Cooperation Directive. These amendments are designed to improve cooperation between tax authorities on administrative tax and reduce tax evasion and tax fraud.[1] Increasing information exchange
Un analista recopila, estudia datos y, a partir de ellos, saca conclusiones. Sus cometidos incluyen encontrar patrones de comportamiento en los datos y tomar decisiones basadas en el aprendizaje obtenido. Hay analistas en una amplia variedad de sectores, así como diferentes tipos y con objetivos heterogéneos. Los científicos de datos
Anyone in the insurance industry knows that fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated and their crimes more difficult to identify. Insurance fraud in the UK costs an estimated £3 billion per year – but only around a third of that is detected. Whilst opportunistic fraud poses a problem to the industry and
Money Laundering has been around for many years. In fact, the term originated in 1920s Chicago, when Al Capone, the original money launderer, “cleaned” the profits of his crimes by cycling the money through a chain of laundrettes that he owned. Nowadays, money laundering uses increasingly innovative and sophisticated techniques,
European agriculture is under enormous pressure to achieve the level of sustainability envisaged by EU initiatives such as the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork strategy. Meanwhile, the international crisis in Ukraine also reminds us that we need to make our food system more resilient to shocks. Data-driven policy
COVID-related lockdowns around the world resulted in changes to the way that we work, study and live. Some of these changes were positive: better access to remote learning and working for those who want it, for example. However, there were other less positive developments, including a huge rise in cybercrime.
They look the same, don’t they? It can be hard to tell one duck from another, but one of them is from a bad egg (I’ll tell you which one at the end of the article). Business rules are a bit like this. They find you lots of alerts, but
As a former police commissioner, I can testify that public-sector fraud is a global problem. Government fraud is becoming bigger and more dangerous every year, especially in the COVID-19 era. Governments view the pandemic as a public health emergency and a severe threat to economic stability. But it’s also important
