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Show allThe Euro Banking Association (EBA) today issued version 7.0 of the EBA Fraud Taxonomy, which will take effect on 1 January 2027. The taxonomy is reviewed on an annual basis with the support of fraud fighters from financial institutions across Europe. The aim of this process is to ensure that the taxonomy continues to fit the changing needs of fraud experts in Europe and beyond.
Version 7.0 has been updated to reflect latest fraud trends identified by the experts participating in the Association’s Expert Group on Payment Fraud-related Topics (EGPF), which has developed the EBA Fraud Taxonomy. The following principal updates have been included in version 7.0:
- The modus ‘emotional manipulation’ in the high-level classification ‘please help’ has been replaced with the following three more specific modi: ‘support a friend or family member fraud’, ‘romance fraud’ and ‘charity / donation fraud’
- Three new labels/tags have been added covering, respectively, suspected money mule activity and a fraud trend referred to as ‘card chip relay’
An overview of the changes introduced into version 7.0 is set out in the Annex of the document.
The EBA Fraud Taxonomy provides a simplified and straightforward framework to describe fraud scenarios related to all kinds of payments, including card transactions. It equips fraud fighters with a harmonised pan-European vocabulary and categorisation approach for naming and organising fraud types for payments. This makes fraud data and intelligence comparable and, consequently, improves the quality of fraud monitoring, reporting and information sharing.
The fraud taxonomy is well-placed to support the overall shift towards coordinated, pan-European fraud-fighting, e.g. by helping to classify data that may be shared through information sharing arrangements under the forthcoming Payment Services Regulation.
A free copy of the EBA Fraud Taxonomy can be requested via the EBA website.
To learn more about the EBA Fraud Taxonomy and its key use cases, consult this management summary.
The Euro Banking Association (EBA) has released a new report examining the far-reaching implications of three key European regulatory initiatives for liquidity management across the financial sector: the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR), the proposed Payment Services Regulation (PSR), and the proposal for Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3), an evolution of PSD2.
Developed by the EBA Liquidity Management Working Group (LMWG), the paper explores how these measures are expected to accelerate the uptake of instant payments, promote a level playing field among market participants and transform the liquidity management landscape.
The EBA Instant Payments Practitioners Group (IPG) released a new note entitled “A match made in heaven? Key challenges for VOP matching checks”.
The note looks into pain points that may impact the accuracy and overall quality of the outcome of the VOP matching check – from the lack of a standardised name-matching logic to name field length restrictions and limitations re. virtual accounts.