Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud

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Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to ****** ******

A coalition of financial services institutions and communications service providers, convened by consumer advocacy organisation

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, have called on the new Labour government to make combating

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a national priority as it launches a “landmark” commitment to data sharing that it believes will go some way to help.

Barclays, BT, Mobile ***, Nationwide, NatWest, Starling Bank, Three, *** Finance, ******* Media O2 and Vodafone have all lent their signatures to the call for ministers to take a leading role to enable businesses to share more and better intelligence to detect ****** and protect the law-abiding public.

“****** continues to blight the lives of so many consumers across the country, with devastating consequences both financially and emotionally,” said Which? policy and advocacy director, Rocio Concha.

“For too long, the actors that will be part of the ****** to combat this terrible ****** have been operating in silos – so this commitment from banks and telecoms providers to work together to share data is a significant step forward in the right direction,” she said.

“We urge the new government to make ****** a national priority and to ensure that businesses can share data and best practices with each other to bolster their defences and ultimately keep their customers safe,” added Concha.

The group says that sharing ****** intelligence will be key to getting ahead of **********, particularly organised fraudsters, who have blighted the lives of so many. ****** already accounts for 40% of all ******* recorded in England and Wales – the majority of it digitally-enabled in some way – and costs consumers

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every single year.

They say that individual businesses, law enforcement agencies and central government are not working collaboratively enough to bring these numbers down, and that sharing information on how ********** exploit gaps in systems would be an excellent first step, because it will give everyone more information to recognise attacks before they happen and take action.

Although the coalition member do want to try to work together, they say that there are still barriers that deter them from sharing data effectively, specifically concerns around the potential breach of *** data protection regulations and competition. They want the government to do something to tackle these barriers as well, otherwise the industry will face a “painfully slow, costly and high-risk approach” in an environment where fraudsters and cyber ********** move quickly.

As such, the coalition has wants the government to put in place central leadership to coordinate their hoped-for initiative, and lead a taskforce to share ****** data, working across industry sectors and delivering secure technical solutions that can be used to prevent ******. Its members said that “stand ready” to join this taskforce.

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