EAST EPTF holds 22nd Meeting
The 22nd Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on Payment and Transaction Fraud (EPTF) took place on Tuesday 1st July 2025. The virtual meeting was chaired by Rui Carvalho, EAST Development Director.
The meeting was attended by 14 key representatives from Card Issuers, Banking and Payment Associations, Law Enforcement, Payment Processors, Payment Services Providers, and Solution Providers.
Europol and the DCPCU provided the law enforcement perspective, and presentations were also made by BPFI, Cartes Bancaires, Diebold Nixdorf, Netcetera, PAN-Nordic Card Association (PNC), qards, SIBs, and Visa. In-depth discussions took place on data relay attacks (terminal-to-terminal and card-to-terminal), BIN attacks, social engineering and awareness campaigns, and the evolution of AI threats.
EAST EPTF, which meets three times a year, adds value to the payments industry by using the unique and extensive EAST National Member and EAST Global Member platforms, and the Associate Member network, to provide information and outputs that are not currently available elsewhere. It is a is a specialist group that discusses security issues affecting the payments industry and that gathers, collates, and disseminates related information, trends and general statistics.
EAST National & Global Members represent 33 countries and outputs from the group are presented to EAST Global Congress Meetings. There are 219 EAST Associate Member Organisations from 51 countries and territories.
