Now that the Ravelin team has finally recovered from jet lag, senior data scientist Ereli Eran took some time to reflect on MRC Vegas and the invaluable insights we gleaned.  

Mairtin O'Riada, Chief Intelligence Officer of Ravelin, discusses the how the lessons learned in crime analysis are now being applied in online fraud detection and expressed through machine learning. 

Originally published in IT Portal Pro, Ravelin CEO Martin Sweeney discusses the reasons why fraud persists and grows despite all the efforts to stem it. The demographics, ease of opportunity, lack of stigma and immunity from prosecution all contribute. 

Eddie Bell joins Ravelin as Head of Machine Learning to bring deep learning techniques to fraud detection. 

A deep dive into the specific challenges the airline industry faces in the fight against online payment fraud. Where are the vulnerabilities and what can be done to secure them? 

Martin Sweeney, CEO of Ravelin predicts what's new trends we're going to see in fraud in 2017.

Stripe Instant Payouts is a critical new addition to world of instant marketplaces. But marketplaces need to be equally sure they have the security and fraud infrastructure in place to make instant work for them. 

Whilst manual review of suspicious transactions will continue to play an important role in fraud prevention, chances are that it's is costing your business more than it should.

It's hard to know when to buy a fraud solution or build it yourself internally. We've laid out the realities of both for you along with advice on best practices for each. 

PSPs and payment gateways use a wide variety of techniques to reduce fraud, yet these techniques only go so far in stopping fraudulent transactions. 

3D-Secure has gained a reputation as a conversion 'killer' yet merchants are increasingly looking for ways to implement 3DS dynamically so that they can balance the risk of liability shift and conversion.

Through our work in the ticketing industry and analysis via our graph networks, we have seen and been able to visualise a number of key trends in ticketing fraud and what to do to fight back.

Michaela has been working informally with the Ravelin team in an advisor role more or less since our inception. She is joining the team in a more formal capacity from June this year. 

Next week, Ravelin is heading to Seville for the MRC EU Congress - we can't believe it's here already! Make sure you swing by booth 11 to say hello to our team.

As the on-demand economy continues to grow and reach more people, there are more opportunities than ever for fraudsters to operate. But what does this fraud look like?