Webinar

GDS Link x Prove x Sentilink: When Identity Fraud Looks Real: Layered Signals for a Changing Threat Landscape

Published 2 September 2026 By matthew

Webinar · September 22, 2026 · 2:00 PM CT

Overview

When Identity Fraud Looks Real: Layered Signals for a Changing Threat Landscape

Fraudsters are blending real, fabricated, and manipulated identity elements to create applicants who look entirely legitimate. As AI makes it easier to manufacture documents and mimic real consumer behavior, financial institutions face a new generation of identity threats.

Fraudulent applicants that look legitimate to traditional checks	AI-generated documents and automated application attacks
Synthetic identities built to age and pass credit checks over time	Single-score verification that misses the full picture

About This Session

This expert conversation brings together fraud and identity specialists from GDS Link, Prove, and SentiLink to discuss how identity fraud is evolving and why traditional verification checks fall short. You’ll see how layered intelligence across identity, phone, device, behavioral, payment, credit, and application data helps detect risk earlier while reducing friction for legitimate applicants.

What You’ll Learn

Five topics. One clearer picture of where identity fraud is heading.

🔎	Why identity fraud is getting harder to spot Synthetic identities and AI-generated documents increasingly pass traditional checks that rely too heavily on static verification.

🤖	How AI is changing the economics of identity fraud AI tools make it cheaper to scale fraudulent applications, generate convincing documents, and mimic legitimate behavior. What once required real resources now requires far less.

📱	How phone, device, and behavioral signals add trust context Phone possession, device consistency, and behavioral signals help institutions confirm whether an applicant’s activity aligns with a legitimate identity.

📈	Why no single score or data source is enough Identity, phone, device, behavioral, payment, credit, and application data each tell part of the story. Combining them identifies risk patterns more precisely than any single source.

⚙	How to turn fraud signals into operational decisions Fraud intelligence only creates value when it’s acted on: decisioning strategies that approve, decline, step up, or route to manual review.

Who Should Attend

Built for financial institutions working to strengthen identity fraud detection.

Designed for fraud, risk, identity, credit, and digital onboarding leaders navigating where identity fraud is moving.

Banks and credit unions	Fintech lenders and digital banks
Organizations with digital account opening	Specialty finance and marketplace lenders
Fraud strategy and identity verification teams	Credit risk, underwriting, and compliance leaders
Product and executive leaders responsible for fraud loss or approval rates	Teams reviewing or modernizing their fraud strategy

Featured Speakers

Charlie Custer

Head of Market Research & Content · SentiLink

Charlie is Head of Market Research at SentiLink, where he combines deep data analysis with compelling content creation to support anti-fraud innovation.

Lisa Bonalle

CEO · GDS Link

With 30+ years experience within fintech, banking, and payments, Lisa has led business transformation and revenue growth. As CEO of GDS Link, she drives strategy, operations, and global expansion.

Nathan George (Moderator)

Head of US Partnerships · GDS Link

Nathan leads Partnerships for GDS Link in North America, building the strategic alliances that bring best-in-class identity, fraud, and data partners like Prove and SentiLink into the GDS Link ecosystem. His background in credit risk modeling, fraud detection, and cashflow-based underwriting gives him a practitioner’s view of how partner data translates into real decisioning outcomes for banks, credit unions, and fintechs.

Ryan Alexander

VP, Global Head of Identity & Fraud Product · Prove

Ryan is VP and Head of Fraud at Prove, leading fraud prevention, analytics, and product innovation. With 20+ years in fraud prevention and digital risk management, including 15+ years at Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Washington Mutual, he focuses on emerging threats like synthetic identities, SIM swap attacks, and social engineering.

Live Expert Panel · September 22, 2026 · 2:00 PM CT

Fraud is changing quickly. Your strategy should too.

Join fraud and identity experts from Prove, SentiLink, and GDS Link on September 22.

How GDS Link Can Help

Fraud signals only create value when your organization can act on them.

The strategies discussed reflect the approach behind GDS Link’s fraud decisioning capabilities: bringing together partner data, identity intelligence, credit data, and application data to drive real-time decisions and workflows.

GDS Link Fraud Decisioning

Turn layered fraud intelligence into real-time decisions.

GDS Link helps financial institutions orchestrate identity, phone, device, behavioral, credit, and application signals into decisioning strategies and workflows across originations, account opening, and account management.

Real-time fraud decisioning across the application lifecycle	Partner data orchestration across identity, fraud, and credit signals
Step-up verification and manual review workflow design	Configurable fraud strategy built on proven decisioning frameworks

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