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Javelin explores and analyzes how financial institutions can get ahead of criminals using technology, training and education. Our insights guide financial institutions to devise effective strategies to safeguard their data, systems and customers through two specialized practices – Fraud Management and Cybersecurity.
Mitigate Security Threats and Keep Accounts and Identities Safe
Criminals’ tactics are always changing. So is the technology that can help head them off. Javelin’s analysis can help keep financial institutions—and thus their customers—a step ahead. Further, Javelin can help you position your customers as partners in protecting their own information from would-be thieves.
Recent Fraud and Security Research
Reports
KYC Revolution: Automated Solutions Tackle Compliance and Fraud Challenges
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 20, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Traditional know-your-customer processes—which are often manual and conducted only during onboarding processes—leave gaps in fraud and money laundering detection, exposing organizations to regulatory scrutiny and fines. Automated and ongoing KYC...
2025 Javelin Trends Webinars
- Complimentary Webinar
- Date: December 17, 2024
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security, Mobile & Online Banking, Digital Lending, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Wealth — Investor, Digital Assets & Crypto, Digital Wealth — Advisor, Digital Strategy & Experience, Wealth Management, Digital Banking, Fraud Management, Commercial & Enterprise, Credit, Debit, Emerging, Global, Merchant, Prepaid, Digital Wealth
Diving into the digital financial services trends and predictions our experts see coming in 2025.
Fraud Victimization and Advocacy: Changing the Narrative
- Complimentary Webinar, On Demand Webinar
- Date: December 15, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Join Javelin Strategy & Research and AARP for a webinar focusing on how you can empower victims and help remove the fraud victim stigma.
Fraud Victimization and Advocacy: Changing the Narrative
- Whitepaper
- Date: December 10, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by AARP, explores the immediate and long-term risks of scams and identity fraud for consumers while establishing a case for providing more compassionate fraud resolution and eliminating the victim stigma.
2024 Child & Family Cybersecurity Study, Social Media and Children: A Dangerous Game of Trust and Deceit
- Whitepaper
- Date: December 5, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Children’s prevalence on social media puts them at increasing risk of being targeted not only for identity theft but also for money mule recruitment, extortion, and cyberbullying, all of which can have devastating financial and psychological eff...
Social Media and Children: A Dangerous Game of Trust and Deceit
- Complimentary Webinar, On Demand Webinar
- Date: November 26, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Join Javelin Strategy & Research’s Tracy Kitten and the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Eva Velasquez for an essential webinar designed for families and financial institutions about the rising threat of child identity theft and its link to soci...
Deepfake Fraud Alert: How FinCEN’s Guidance Affects Banks
- Impact Note
- Date: November 18, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Even though deepfake-related fraud suspicious activity reports are on the rise, many financial institutions do not have a deepfake detection solution. FinCEN’s recent alert notes that banks have seen an increased use of deepfakes, specifically r...
2025 Cybersecurity Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 7, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby, Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Expanding security automation by relying more heavily on security orchestration, artificial intelligence, and data analytics, as well as a more inclusive and expansive definition of threat intelligence signals, will dictate the success cyber tea...
2025 Fraud Management Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 7, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby, Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Innovation is the name of the game in 2025. Though the financial services industry is always working to develop the latest and greatest technology for fraud detection and prevention, there are more than a few opportunities on which financial ins...
Identity Verification Demystified: Share More, Secure More
- Javelin Report
- Date: October 31, 2024
- Author(s): Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Going too far to protect identity has put the financial services industry at increased risk. Reluctance to share critical signals across disparate platforms and sectors has pigeon-holed financial institutions into limited views of the consumers ...