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LexisNexis Risk Solutions: Product Launch
LexisNexis Risk Solutions released findings from its 2026 Global Cybercrime Report analyzing 116.1 billion transactions. Report highlights include 59% jump in automated bot attacks that now mimic human behavior, 89% YoY increase in login attack rates, and $442 billion in estimated global fraud losses (2025). Findings framed around fintech fraud prevention webinar in Asia.
Source: Fintechnews Singapore
The leadership read
The report's operational weight sits in what the transaction data reveals about where fraud controls are failing, not just that fraud is rising. Analysing 116.1 billion transactions, LexisNexis has documented a structural shift: the attack surface has migrated away from onboarding, where identity verification investment has been heaviest, toward authenticated sessions, with login attack rates nearly doubling year-on-year. Simultaneously, authorised push payment fraud has reached a scale where technical controls are largely irrelevant; the customer is authentic, the device is genuine, and the authorization is real. That combination commits any institution using this data to rebuilding fraud logic around behavioral signals and post-authentication monitoring rather than front-door identity checks alone. The related signals we have tracked over the last 90 days are thinly matched to this specific theme, the comparable set is dominated by unrelated product launches across defense, consumer goods, and quantum hardware. However, the fintech-adjacent signals, including BNY's expansion of institutional digital asset custody and N3XT's MCP-enabled B2B payments infrastructure, point to a consistent underlying dynamic: financial institutions are extending the transaction perimeter into new channels and protocols faster than risk architecture is following. That gap is precisely where the LexisNexis data is most alarming. Across fintechs and financial institutions operating in Asia's cross-border and embedded finance corridors, this pattern is concentrating demand for risk and product leadership with behavioral analytics depth, specifically operators who can design friction-calibrated trust layers that function across heterogeneous regulatory regimes. APAC's fragmented licensing environment makes this harder than equivalent work in Europe or North America. Commercial and product leadership at the seam between fraud operations and customer experience is where the functional pressure is sharpest.
Market context: Backdrop: a 100.3 (Neutral) Talent Market Index (down 1 on the month) with Asia activity steady (-1.3pts).
LexisNexis Risk Solutions: 3 signals in the last 90 days; 0.2% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 4 tracked across 77 days.
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