Serge Waterschoot’s career started at the Brussels University in both Artificial Intelligence and Statistics domains, laying the foundation for his work in Fraud Risk Management and Data Mining at Europay and Belgacom afterwards. Since 2001, he works for ATOS Wordline, combining both professional passions as the head of the Business Analytics Competence Center, a small team of experts responsible for the Fraud Risk Management infrastructure that serves the large majority of Belgian Issuers and Acquirers.

Serge Waterschoot’s presentation will cover:

Confused by all the Fraud Detection Technological buzzwords? Identifying the relevant messages for your business from the abundance of marketing slogans pitching Fraud Detection Tools can be daunting. Is ‘empirical knowledge’, ‘predictive data modelling’ or ‘customized analytical technology’ what you need? How would you benefit from ‘adaptive neural nets’, ‘intelligent strategies’, or ‘customer behaviour modelling’? During this interactive talk, we will guide you through some of these approaches and focus on their advantages and disadvantages in Fraud Risk Management. We’ll wrap up with some best practices on fitting these approaches into your own Fraud Risk Management Strategy.

In bullets:

-          Clarify what is behind the Marketing Slogans used for Fraud Detection Tools.

-          Interactively describe the technological approaches.

-          How could you benefit from the underlying technological approaches?

-          What approach works in a Fraud Risk Management strategy?