Latin American SecurityRui Carvalho, EAST Development Director, presented at the third Annual Latin American Forum on Security in Payment Systems, held on 18th / 19th October 2017 in Lima, Peru.

The event was co-organised by ATEFI and Liquid Nexxus in order to raise awareness of payment-related crime in Latin America.

ATEFI is the Latin American Association of Operators Electronic Funds Transfer and Information Services and represents 20 ATM networks in 14 countries throughout Latin America.

Rui Carvalho (pictured on the left with Fernanda Romero and Oscar Castellano of ATEFI) presented an overview of Terminal Related Fraud and Transaction Fraud  in Europe from the perspective of the Electronic Payments Industry, as represented by EAST.

In May 2016 EAST and ATEFI joined forces in order to further strengthen cross border cooperation in combating all types of payment crime including payment card fraud, hi-tech crime and ATM cyber and physical attacks.