How important is a fraud team within a business? Are they part of the growth story? We discuss this and other topics with Asos, FeelUnique and more.

Ravelin to provide machine learning-based fraud detection for video gaming trading platform Kinguin

The biggest potential in tech, why biometrical identity will be on the rise and the importance of securing the payments chain were some of the highlights from Martin Sweeney's presentation from MPE.

An overview of how fraud detection will move to the centre of a PSP value proposition with PSD2.

Ravelin's head of machine learning Eddie Bell discusses micromodels, scaling team growth and how we deploy a 'happy path'.

An overview of the terminology used in association with PSD2. 

Our key takeaways from the conference that was held at London's 02 Arena. 

A snapshot survey of attitudes to payment card crime. We surveyed a panel of respondents to see how their attitude to and knowledge of crime matched the actual statistics. 

PSD2 is expected to lead to a major change in terms of the accessibility of customer data to authorised third parties when the customer has given their explicit consent.

Some insights and predictions on the future of the Merchants Payments Ecosystem. 

What is the role of the graph networks in fraud detection? What is it used for and why do analysts get so much value from it? 

Ravelin's Chief Marketing Officer Gerry Carr spoke with UK-based commercial lawyer Vanessa Barnett with the aim to help companies prepare for GDPR. The discussion focused on practical information and tips regarding compliance, personal data use, fraud, and supplier compliance.

The growing threat of online fraud, a report recently published by the UK Government, analyses the increasing cost of fraudulent activity in the UK. The report explains how retailers, merchants, and banks should look to collaboratively tackle the issue as an industry. 

Marketing campaigns bring fraudsters to the party in larger relative numbers than good customers. Is your business having the right conversations with the fraud team to make sure this risk is understoo and mitigated? 

We talk to Hailo founder Terry Runham about how they managed the issue of fraud as they gained serious traction as a taxi app. 

E-commerce fraud is a serious and growing issue for online retailers. But what are the causes and why is it expanding at such a growing rate. Retail e-commerce specialist Andrea Dodet takes a deep dive into the causes and what can be done. 

How do we reposition fraud teams to be growth enablers as well as revenue protection. We discuss this and other topics with Encore Tickets, Minicabit, Quipup, 31Dover, Resident Advisor and Green Man Gaming. 

Account takeover & voucher abuse continue to grow in e-commerce due to the inability of the industry to effectively associate an account with a real identity. Here we explain how can ML be used to solve this issue.

Ravelin Connect is a graph network and machine learning product from Ravelin. Could it provide the answer to duplicate account, bonus abuse and self-exclusion issues in gambling as highlighted by the recent fine for 888.com

CTO Leonard Austin explains why we chose to use Google Cloud Platform as our cloud provider and how they help us to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters. 

We had the privilege of having lunch with fraud professionals from the biggest UK retailers to talk about fraud trends they're seeing and swap tactics for keeping the bad guys out.  

We're very excited to welcome Roger Kruger to the Ravelin team as Head of Sales! in his own words, Roger explains what attracted him to Ravelin and what his plans are for helping Ravelin continue to grow. 

We invited fraud professionals from the leading fintech companies and challenger banks around the UK to join us for lunch and discuss the fraud challenges they were experiencing. 

With data breaches happening all the time, online businesses need to be equipped to manage the different types of fraud threats that result from these breaches. One of these threats is account takeover. 

At our 5th Applied AI meetup, we heard from three speakers who all use AI to perform tasks ranging from recognising food, to helping businesses make better content, all the way through to preventing online fraud. 

Watch Ravelin CTO Leonard Austin's talk at Google NEXT EMEA about why open makes such a difference in protecting our clients from fraud attacks. 

That retail ecommerce is a fraud target is well known but what fraud methods are fraudsters using and how are they changing? From phishing, CNP fraud, DDos attack through to ransomware - companies need to take precautions. 

Ravelin hosted an event on GDRP, consent and compliance with CiFas and Keystone Law. Includes lots of links to decks, podcasts and more.

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.

Ravelin and KPMG hosted Addisson Lee, Deliveroo, Eat First, Gett Taxi, Hailo, One Fine Stay, and Just Eat for the inaugural roundtable to discuss tackling payment and account takeover fraud on an industry level rather than merchant-by-merchant. 

Ravelin secures £3M in funding to support rapidly expanding customer base. 

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.

We're excited to announce that we now hold both PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certifications. Read more about what this means for us and the data we store. 

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.

Jeffrey Ng, CTO at Stratified Medical, explains how they identified a gap between medical research and the healthcare that they are trying to close by creating better medicines using deep learning.

CTO Gary Mudie talks about how AI can be applied to move healthcare systems away from dealing in “sick care”, where the system is designed to treat illness, and towards keeping people well.

David Plans, CEO of BioBeats, on creating a machine learning platform that delivers biometric insight about people's well-being in real-time, & helps them action that insight through engaging media.  

Last week, we were delighted to welcome more than 50 on-demand business leaders to our panel discussion around building & scaling successful businesses in this dynamic space.

How Ravelin's instant, flexible and simple to use graph databases will transform how businesses detect and prevent fraud.

Inviting all to our panel discussion, where we will go deeper than the big valuations and flashy headlines of the on-demand economy to understand what really makes on-demand businesses last. 

Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital looks at the success AI has had, identifying significant uses of AI and where it has been most successfully applied. 

An image is worth a thousand words yet not all these words refer to visible properties such as objects and scenes. Miriam Redi from Yahoo Labs explains further. 

Data Scientist, Stephen Whitworth, explains the importance of building products where the data and intelligence that is gained from them, forms the core of the Ravelin product. 

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? 

We believe that graph networks in fraud detection, when used correctly and with consideration to the network’s limitations, are an unequivocally powerful technique.

Creating a beta programme is a tough undertaking. Making strong choices early about who you want to participate can go a long way to making sure it works out great for everyone. 

Ferenc Huszar, data scientist currently of Balderton Capital and soon to be of Magic Pony Technology, discusses the use of Artificial Intelligence to reengineer complex systems.

Skimlinks helps publishers to monetise their content, but sometimes can vary, meaning that their datasets are inconsistent or lacking in key data. Maria Mestre explains how machine learning can help. 

At the first AI Meetup in early November at Balderton Capital, our own Ereli Eran explored the role of Machine Learning in information security. 

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released a report that addresses the widespread concern that fraud has long been underreported in crime figures. 

Over the Summer we worked with the S2DS 2015 programme whose goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the workplace for students emerging from PhD studies.

We've raise more than £1.3m from leading VCs and angel investors to fund the expansion of the Ravelin team as we continue to grow our customer base.