The Trust Gap: Fraud vs Reality in the Age of AI

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The episode discusses the rise of cyber-enabled fraud and the importance of digital trust in the age of AI.

According to the World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 report, we've hit a historic tipping point. For the first time, CEOs now rank cyber-enabled fraud as their number one digital concern, officially overtaking ransomware. The threat is no longer about a hacker locking your files, it's about a machine mimicking your identity. But why does this matter? Well, because when trust collapses, the economy stops. If you can't verify who you're paying, you stop paying. If you can't verify who you're hiring, you stop growing. We are no longer just defending data. We are defending the very possibility of digital trust. Today we're discussing the rise of digital ghosts, the death of the voice call and the defensive technologies emerging to save our digital identities, economies and society itself. Joining Tom Parker to examine the future of fraud in our digital world are three experts, Hubert Behaghel, CPTO at Veriff, an identity verification software company, Gareth Murray, Financial Crime Senior Director at Monzo and Simon Miller, Director of Policy at CIFAS. Sources: FT Resources, WEF, KBV Research, Mordor Intelligence, Juniper Research. This content is paid for by…

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Host: Tom Parker

Guests: Hubert Behaghel, Gareth Murray, Simon Miller

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• digital trust
• fraud prevention
• identity verification
• AI threats
• financial crime

Keywords

• cyber-enabled fraud
• digital identity
• trust collapse
• identity verification
• financial crime
• AI
• digital economy

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Veriff

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Organizations: World Economic Forum, Monzo, CIFAS