Finance, Not Fraud: Combating Fraudsters
​While Protecting the Fintech Experience

​Presentation Date & Time:
September 23rd & 24th, 2021
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Presenter Information:
Name: Sara Hafner
Organization: Forter

Presentation Description:
Fintech disruption comes down to streamlining the experience for customers through digital transformation. While many organizations are working to keep up with the way payments take place today by enabling digital commerce, this also comes with increased cost by opening their attack surface to new types of fraud. It’s easy to put fraud prevention measures in place - the hard part is enabling those measures without detracting from the customer experience.

In this session, Sara Hafner will share the latest statistics on the cost of fraud in the fintech ecosystem, as well as the most common types of fraud experienced in this sector. She will explain advancements in fraud protection and how a unified approach to fraud prevention and identity can be used to provide an optimal payments experience to consumers and how various parties can come together to build a fraud-free world.

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Sara Hafner Biography

Sara Hafner is the Head of Financial Partnerships at Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, processing over $150 billion in online commerce transactions and protecting over 620 million consumers globally from credit card fraud, account takeover, identity theft, and more. She is responsible for leading the development and expansion of the company’s identity-based fraud prevention solution for financial institutions. With nearly 15 years of payments industry experience, Sara has held roles in the sales and product innovation teams at Visa, and helped establish the EMEA technology-sector investment banking team at Barclays Capital. She holds a BsE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from London Business School.