Vendors are likely to position telecoms risk management and business assurance as subsets of 'advanced anomaly detection'.

The Communications Fraud Control Association has issued its 2019 Global Fraud Loss Survey and Digital Identity Cybercrime Report. However, some of the figures are obviously wrong.

Simple maths shows the Communications Fraud Control Association Global Fraud Survey was answered by only 61 telcos in 2019, though this was many more than responded in 2017.

The 2019 Fraud Report from the ITW Global Leaders' Forum presents an ambitious but credible plan to defeat fraud.

The Commsrisk article which gained most attention during October addressed the question of whether there is racism in telecoms risk management.

South African banks can use MTN's Subscriber Identity for Third Parties (SIFT) system to check if a SIM was recently changed.

The online training offered by the Risk & Assurance Group is accessible to everyone, regardless of race, gender or nationality.

Although Subex is an Indian firm, their user conference illustrated industry-wide challenges with achieving diversity.

October saw unprecedented concern about wangiri fraud from a wide variety of countries.

UK police statistics show there is a disparity between the number of reported SIM swap frauds and the amount of attention they generate in the media.

There will be intense competition between a rising number of video streaming services.

Millions of people are being told they should avoid robocalls by not answering their phone. Telcos need to proactively manage the consequences in order to protect revenues.