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Regulatory Compliance

Synectics is the Official Fraud & Financial Crime Partner of the FLA

Helping risk leaders achieve commercial ambitions without weakening fraud controls.

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Regulatory Compliance

Synectics joins the BSA as an Associate Member

Greater access to fraud intelligence and specialist expertise for building societies.

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

AXA leverages cross-sector data to help boost fraud detection by 50%

Preventing losses with real-time quote screening and cross-sector data.

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Regulatory Compliance | Application Fraud

Cross-sector data proves vital as ghost broking risk evolves

Opinions and approaches from Allianz, Keoghs and Synectics.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

A guide to application fraud prevention in 2026: Think like a fraudster

Is your application fraud strategy fit for what’s next?

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Document & Identity Checks

The document fraud vulnerability in insurance validation processes

How Zurich, Admiral and DAC Beachcroft tackle a new kind of document fraud.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Document & Identity Checks

Why synthetic IDs keep succeeding: rethinking ID and fraud controls

What's working against the most effective synthetics.

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Document & Identity Checks | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Webinar insights: tackling synthetic IDs as they become more believable

Data and fraud leader insight about what’s working.

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Document & Identity Checks | Case Management & Investigations

The signs of AI-generated document fraud technical checks are missing

Are fake documents getting further than expected?

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

Managing the fraud risk you can’t decline: using early behavioural signals

The mule detection tactics on borrowed time – and the early signals we should use instead.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

Using early signals to disrupt money mules: webinar insights

Views from Mastercard, UK Finance and Synectics on intercepting money mules.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Signals: Intelligence Behind the Fraud Patterns that Matter

Explore five areas of new research for financial services fraud leaders.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

The next phase of synthetic identity fraud revealed: tactics and trajectory

National SIRA research shows a new phase that will challenge sophisticated controls.

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Case Management & Investigations | Application Fraud

What the Bounce Back Loan Scheme taught us about collective fraud defence

A blueprint for public-private defence against crisis-scale fraud.

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Application Fraud | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Inside the fraud economy of 2026: Mules, synthetics and the next wave

An on-demand webinar with Santander and UK Finance.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

Credit and the career fraudster: the data behind repeat offenders

Our research finds that credit card fraud carries the highest rate of repeat offending.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

Fraud trends and leadership priorities: in conversation with Aviva and Synectics

Aviva’s policy fraud lead shares the story behind their award-winning strategy.

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

What's next for ghost broking - and why current trends may mislead

Why we shouldn’t be fooled by the slowing of ghost broking reports.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

Before the flip: spotting money mule risk inside your boarded accounts

How AML teams are intercepting boarded accounts that flip to money muling.

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Regulatory Compliance | Customer Fast-Tracking

Video: The pursuit of balance: solving fraud's cross-collaboration dilemma

What sets master collaborators apart – and how to unite around goals that matter.

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Application Fraud

Video: Ongoing mule detection: how to start, scale and stay in control

Our banking experts discuss the money muling blind spot – and how to close it.

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Application Fraud | Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

A mirror and a warning: FCA fines and the risks of fast growth

This summer's fines holds a mirror to a sector racing to reinvent.

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Synectics research: inside the modern money mule economy

Trends and hidden mule risk we found in Tier 1 bank back-books.

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Document & Identity Checks | Case Management & Investigations

Document fraud thrives where visibility fails. How can lenders see further?

What changes when you widen your view and pair shared context with AI?

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

Maturing fraud infrastructure triggers 63% rise in ghost broking

Fraudsters sell at scale on social media. Learn how data is disrupting their networks.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

A realistic blueprint to start and scale ongoing mule screening

Progress continuous alerting strategies without the operational overwhelm.

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Regulatory Compliance | Customer Fast-Tracking

Customer satisfaction and compliance: the risk of division in financial services

Deliver the smooth experiences consumers seek out while keeping ahead of fraud.

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Document & Identity Checks | Case Management & Investigations

Systemic document fraud: how insurers can respond effectively

Fakes moves fast and across organisations. How can you detect before damage spreads?

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

Sky targets £4.6m bad debt savings with No Intent to Pay strategy

Cutting bad debt without creating friction for genuine customers.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

esure blocks up to 90% of application fraud in real-time

Instant policy decisions, far fewer manual reviews and precise fraud control.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

Mule-linked activity surges 63% in savings accounts

Formerly low-risk products are targeted as money launderers try new tactics.

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Application Fraud | Regulatory Compliance

Pay.UK unlocks £100m in potential savings linked to APP scams

Saving potentially £100m in scam losses by combining shared intelligence with AI.

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

Consumer finance leader stops fraud 64% faster

Approving genuine loans faster while blocking organised fraud early.

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Application Fraud | Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Document & Identity Checks

State of Fraud Report 2025: Banks and Building Societies

The biggest fraud trends impacting financial services – and how to stay ahead.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

Synectics brings unbeatable fraud prevention intel to BIBA

BIBA’s 1,800-strong membership can access fresh thought and fraud trends.

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Application Fraud | Regulatory Compliance

APP fraud detection research: The proven formula for increasing AI’s power

We prove the UK can detect an astonishing £273m more worth of APP fraud.

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

Reframing fraud prevention as a strategic growth lever in financing

Your fraud model shapes your lending model. See how leaders balance both.

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Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

Synectics research finds 75% of mules evade early detection

Continuous alerting + robust application checks detect 75% more mule activity.

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Document & Identity Checks | Regulatory Compliance

Digital ID 101 for financial services leaders: UK edition 2025

Legislation, new standards, and what builds confidence to adopt.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

Wrisk drives policy conversions with friction-right controls

Early fraud detection and zero disruption for genuine customers.

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Customer Fast-Tracking | Document & Identity Checks

NFU Mutual partners with Synectics to fortify policy holder protections

Real time quotes, rapid applications, and potential fraudsters kept at bay.

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Application Fraud

3 key ways data enrichment helps brokers deliver profitable business

Hold a favoured position and be the broker insurers choose time and again.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

Allianz talks innovating with tech and what's coming next

Moving faster than threats by always evolving how data and AI are used.

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Document & Identity Checks | Case Management & Investigations

Shallowfakes: the low-tech fraud impacting insurer margins

Simple to make and hard to spot. Unless you know where to look.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

Allianz talks customer experience, data enrichment and collaboration

Fraud journeys that fast-track genuine customers and reduce operational noise.

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Document & Identity Checks | Regulatory Compliance

A fraud leader's guide to new ID Verification Standards

Your blueprint for compliant digital ID checks - without adding friction or barriers.

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations | Customer Fast-Tracking

Ethical AI in fraud detection: the good, the fad and avoiding the ugly

Fair, effective controls as the face of fraud – and victims – changes quickly.

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Gender Pay Report 2024

The position for Synectics Solutions as of March 2024 for our entire company.

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks | Regulatory Compliance

2025 State of Fraud Report: data from National SIRA

Where fraud is hitting banks and building societies hardest in 2025.

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Why manual on-book screening is officially a process of the past

What the Consumer Duty closed product updates mean for your fraud strategy.

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Application Fraud | Ongoing Risk Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance

APP scammers have gamed the financial system - how should you respond?

What happens when on-book threats go unchecked between screening periods?

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Document & Identity Checks | Application Fraud

TechUK Digital ID Summit Synopsis - Digital ID Adoption

How to build the trust needed for widespread digital ID adoption.

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

MS Amlin Insurance implements ‘quote to claim’ fraud prevention across multiple insurance lines

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Regulatory Compliance

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Our colleague commitment to robust security

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Why your APP scam strategy must not be swayed by the reimbursement limit update

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Document & Identity Checks | Regulatory Compliance

The DISD Bill and the future of digital identity verification

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Document & Identity Checks | Regulatory Compliance

TechUK webinar: How digital ID makes financial services safer

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

Has the mixed-injury claims ruling opened a floodgate to fraud?

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Application Fraud | Case Management & Investigations

Does the argument about AI decision bias misplace blame?

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Case Management & Investigations | Document & Identity Checks

MGAA webinar: take evidence trends impacting claims teams

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Addressing AML's cultural challenges in the fight against mules

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Gender Pay Report 2023

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Document & Identity Checks | Application Fraud

ID fraud may account for 50% of all bank-reported fraud by 2025

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

Why more time to investigate APP fraud is the first of many changes

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Regulatory Compliance | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

pKYC: Can we really put fraud checks on autopilot?

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Regulatory Compliance | Document & Identity Checks | Ongoing Risk Monitoring

How to accurately evaluate AI’s role in your APP fraud strategy

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Application Fraud | Document & Identity Checks

The state of fraud 2024: Predictions from an insider

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

AXA UK strengthens fraud prevention measures with Synectics Solutions partnership

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Document & Identity Checks | Application Fraud

Digital ID Campaign Week: Are digital ID privacy concerns outdated?

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Application Fraud | Customer Fast-Tracking

Synectics Solutions crowned Best Technology Provider for Sky venture

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Case Management & Investigations | Application Fraud

The 20 postcodes behind motor insurance’s impersonation crisis

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Document & Identity Checks | Customer Fast-Tracking

Digitally approving more genuine customers with SynID