BANK OF AFRICA CHOOSES NETGUARDIANS’ AI SOFTWARE TO REINFORCE INTERNAL AND PAYMENT FRAUD PREVENTION
Yverdon-les-Bains, 20 December 2022: Award-winning Swiss FinTech NetGuardians, renowned for its enterprise risk platform for combatting financial fraud, has announced that BANK OF AFRICA, a pan-African bank present in 31 countries worldwide, 20 of them being in Africa, will use NetGuardians’ fraud prevention software to further safeguard its assets and branches in Morocco against internal and payment fraud.
More than 25 client banks across Africa & The Middle East are using NetGuardians as their anti-fraud solution; it is trusted by 40% of the largest banks in East Africa. NetGuardians is working with banks to protect more than $7 trillion in assets from fraudsters and was listed as a Global Leader in the 2021 Aite-Novarica report on Fraud and AML Machine Learning Platforms.
Building an intricate anti-fraud culture is paramount to the growth of pan-African banking, as five of the top 10 countries most affected by fraud are in Africa, according to the Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey.