Throughout human history, a small number of technological leaps have drastically and irrevocably changed the course of civilization. The advent of generative AI will prove to be another such advance. It has already become a core component in the fraudster’s toolkit as well as an essential component of contemporary approaches to risk management. FIs and technology vendors can harness the insights from this report to better understand generative AI and its potential as a friend and a foe.
This report gives a brief history of generative AI, discusses a variety of fraud applications and prevention tools relevant to the financial crime industry, and describes how several jurisdictions across the globe are seeking to regulate generative AI and AI at large. It is informed by interviews with solution providers and fraud professionals about generative AI and related technologies and augmented by Datos Insights’ ongoing industry research on fraud trends, including quantitative and qualitative studies of financial services firms and vendors.
Clients of Datos Insights’ Fraud & AML service can download this report.
This report mentions Amazon, Anthropic, DataVisor, Featurespace, Google, IBM, Inflection, Lucinity, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, SymphonyAI, WorkFusion, and X.
About the Author

Jim Mortensen
Jim Mortensen is a Strategic Advisor in Datos Insights’s Fraud & AML practice, covering identity, fraud, and data security issues. Jim has been in the financial services industry for over 30 years, delivering fraud prevention, identity verification, and credit underwriting solutions to top-tier financial institutions both domestically and internationally. Through his experience in the industry, he has developed a substantial...
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Gabrielle Inhofe
Gabrielle Inhofe is a Senior Associate with Datos Insights’s Fraud & AML team. Her primary interests include cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and EU policy. Prior to joining Datos Insights, Gabrielle worked in Strategy and Global Regulations at cybersecurity company OneSpan, where she wrote the 2022 Global Financial Regulations Report. Gabrielle has a Masters in Advanced European and International Studies from the...

Trace Fooshee
Trace Fooshee is a Strategic Advisor in the Fraud & AML practice at Datos Insights, covering fraud and data security issues. Trace has been leading business transformation initiatives for over 20 years. He started his professional career in Singapore, where he focused on delivering process automation solutions for banking and securities clients by way of workflow and document management-based transformations....