Feedzai Backs New World Cup 2026 Guide to Help Banks Detect Trafficking and Scam Risks

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Feedzai has partnered with nonprofit network The Knoble to support a new Human Trafficking & Scam Detection Guide for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, positioning its financial crime technology at the center of efforts to help banks monitor heightened risk around the tournament. The guide is aimed at financial institutions worldwide and explains how criminal groups exploit major events through ticket fraud, travel and lodging scams, money mule recruitment, and human trafficking, while detailing how banks and credit unions can use transaction patterns and cross-channel data to detect and disrupt these activities.

For Feedzai, the initiative reinforces its strategic role as an AI-native risk platform for top-tier banks and payment providers, emphasizing real-time pattern analysis across accounts, geographies, and payment types as human trafficking and scam incidents spike around global sporting events. CEO Nuno Sebastião stressed that financial safety is directly tied to human safety and that improving the detection of suspicious flows—such as clusters of hotel bookings, late-night ATM withdrawals, or rapid fund movements through newly active accounts—both protects consumers and sustains trust in the financial system.

The guide highlights quantifiable risk, noting that some institutions have seen up to an 80% increase in scam cases around major ticket releases, while recent U.S. enforcement operations around marquee events have surfaced dozens of trafficking victims. By channeling these insights into practical detection rules, investigative workflows, and information-sharing frameworks, Feedzai and The Knoble aim to help banks act earlier, escalate high-risk cases to law enforcement, and better safeguard vulnerable customers.

This collaboration aligns with Feedzai’s broader strategy to embed its technology in the operational defenses of global financial institutions as they confront increasingly complex fraud and exploitation networks. While the guide itself is distributed through The Knoble’s member center, it is designed to complement advanced analytics platforms like Feedzai’s, which connect signals across channels and institutions to spot behavior that is invisible in siloed systems.

For executives, the effort underscores both a compliance and reputational risk dimension ahead of the World Cup: regulators and the public expect banks to identify and respond to trafficking and scam indicators in real time. The partnership and guide therefore serve as both a playbook and a demand driver for more sophisticated financial crime controls, reinforcing Feedzai’s positioning as a critical infrastructure provider in safeguarding over one billion consumers and trillions in annual payment volume.