EAST EPTF holds 24th Meeting
The 24th Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on Payment and Transaction Fraud (EPTF) took place on Wednesday 8th April 2026 in Edinburgh. The hybrid meeting was chaired by Rui Carvalho, EAST Development Director and was attended by 16 key representatives from Card Issuers, Banking and Payment Associations, Law Enforcement, Payment Processors, and Payment Services Providers. There were 8 people in the room and 8 people online.
Europol, the DCPCU, and the Polícia Judiciária provided the law enforcement perspective, and presentations were also made by BPFI, DSGV, EURO Kartensysteme, JP Morgan Chase, PAN-Nordic Card Association (PNC), Payment Services Austria (PSA), qards, SIBs, SIX Group, Worldline, and ZKB.
In-depth discussions took place on Data Relay attacks (Card-to-Terminal), Social engineering (phishing and vishing), and Caller ID spoofing. Reports of data relay attacks are increasing and both EAST EPTF (Card-to-Terminal data relay attacks) and EAST EGAF (Terminal-to-Terminal data relay attacks) are working to share intelligence and key information on the issue.
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 226 EAST Associate Member Organisations from 51 countries and territories.
