Somehow, I Manage to Control My Risk, Part 4 - Instant Payments

Corporate Central is partnering with PaymentsFirst to offer a quarterly webinar series designed to help credit union teams strengthen their risk management practices across today's primary payment channels. Each session focuses on one area of payments risk. The series provides insights into fraud trends, operational risk considerations, and practical steps your credit union can take to improve detection, prevention, and overall program resilience.

What This Session Will Cover: Instant Payments Risk

This session focuses on the risk considerations unique to instant payments and the real-time controls needed to support safe participation. Topics include:

• Fraud challenges tied to immediate settlement
• Scams, mule accounts, and rapid-movement fraud
• Real-time fraud monitoring strategies
• Transaction scoring tools and decisioning approaches
• Layered security practices to increase protection and reduce losses

This session is ideal for teams preparing to implement or expand instant payments.