DEFEND 2022: A Year in Review – What The Fraud Happened and What’s Ahead?

Fraud leaders from Neo Financial, Synchrony Financial, and DataVisor discuss the best and worst in 2022, how to manage fraud in new finance, and what to look out for 2023

  • Key fraud patterns, trends, challenges, and blind spots in 2022
  • The biggest threats and challenges to watch for in 2023
  • How you can prepare to mitigate fraud losses and maximize opportunities

Meet the Speakers

Manny Bains

Director of Fraud Management
Neo Financial

Yinglian Xie

CEO and Co-Founder
DataVisor

Yinglian Xie is CEO and Co-Founder of DataVisor, Before founding DataVisor, Yinglian worked at Microsoft Research, where her focus was on advancing the security of online services with big data analytics and machine learning. Yinglian completed both her Ph.D. and post-doctoral work in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and currently holds over 20 patents in her field. A highly-regarded researcher, author, and conference contributor.

Ted Josephson

Vice President, Fraud Strategy
Synchrony Financial Bank

Ted is a 30+ year financial services veteran, with extensive experience in managing the strategic, business and tactical operational aspects of the digital channels, money movement, deposit products & card payments for $40+ billion organizations - including online, mobile, ATM/debit and multi-state contact centers.

About DataVisor

DataVisor is the AI-native real-time decisioning engine for fraud and financial crime prevention.
As AI transforms both fraud attacks and fraud defense, DataVisor helps financial institutions, payment providers, and digital businesses detect, investigate, and stop sophisticated and previously unseen threats in milliseconds across billions of transactions. Combining adaptive machine intelligence, consortium intelligence, and emerging agentic AI capabilities, DataVisor enables organizations to modernize fraud operations, improve customer experience, and stay ahead of rapidly evolving financial crime. DataVisor is trusted by leading financial institutions, payment innovators, Fortune 500 enterprises, and digital businesses worldwide.