Senior Director, Payment Partnerships
Prove
Alyse Belavic is a partnerships and business development leader with extensive experience across the fintech and payments ecosystem. At Prove, she owns payments and product partnerships, working to bring identity to the core of digital payments. Alyse spent the first portion of her career at Synchrony Financial, holding roles in business development, strategy, and ventures while there. She later joined the digital wallet fintech Skipify, where she was responsible for forging key partnerships with major issuers and networks, including American Express, Visa, Mastercard, and Discover among others.
The financial industry is facing a fraud threat landscape that is growing in frequency and sophistication, with a surge in real-time payments fraud such as authorized push payments, account takeover attacks, and AI-fueled synthetic identity fraud and deepfakes for social engineering and phishing. While the rise in fraud types and frequency relies in great part on more sophisticated technology, those committing the fraud also exploit human-factor vulnerabilities. The roundtable discussion will examine the increasing fraud risks in instant payment systems (FedNow, RTP) and P2P platforms, card-not-present fraud in e-commerce and mobile wallets, business email compromise (BEC) and social engineering that targets corporate clients, and emerging fraud schemes within embedded finance and buy now, pay later.