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DEFEND: The New Frontier of Check Fraud- Safeguarding Tax Season and Treasury Checks in 2025
With tax season approaching, fraudsters are ramping up their schemes, targeting treasury checks and refund payouts with increasingly sophisticated tactics. From check alterations and image manipulation to fraudulent withdrawals and wire transfers, bad actors are finding new ways to exploit financial institutions at multiple points in the transaction lifecycle.
Watch DataVisor and Mitek Systems for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving landscape of check fraud and the latest defense strategies. We’ll examine how fraudsters infiltrate financial institutions, from the moment an account is created, to check deposit and towards the final withdrawal, and how a Customer 360° fraud prevention approach can help detect suspicious activity-even beyond the initial check deposit.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- Emerging check fraud schemes targeting treasury and refund checks during tax season—and their impact on financial institutions.
- How fraudsters manipulate the system at different touchpoints, from registration to withdrawal.
- The power of AI-driven fraud detection and a 360 degree customer view in preventing financial losses across customer’s lifecycle.
- Real-world case studies showcasing how financial institutions are strengthening their fraud prevention frameworks.
- Proactive strategies to safeguard against evolving threats and minimize risk exposure.
Meet the Speakers
Fang Yu
An accomplished researcher, author, and conference contributor, Fang Yu is widely-regarded as one of the most influential figures in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data security. Fang currently holds over 20 patents.
Barry Hall
As Director, Innovation & Research, Digital Banking at Mitek, Barry brings deep experience and expertise in fraud detection. Before Mitek, he spent 14 years at Bank of America in performance engineering roles. Barry has been a leader in technology since the early 90s. He has designed, built, implemented, and supported multiple image technology solutions for payments, remittance systems, item processing, account reconcilement, and fraud detection where he holds more than 25 patents. Barry is deeply knowledgeable about current fraud trends and how financial institutions are solving those problems, today.
Kedar Toraskar
Kedar is the Vice President of Product Partnerships at DataVisor, where he leads strategic collaborations to drive innovation and expand DataVisor’s fraud and risk solutions ecosystem. With a strong background in product management, engineering, and customer relations, Kedar brings over a decade of experience in building and scaling technology-driven solutions.