WEMA BANK COMMEMORATES INTERNATIONAL FRAUD AWARENESS WEEK 2024

Reinforcing its dedication to combatting fraud and defending prospects’ monetary pursuits, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most progressive financial institution and pioneer of Africa’s first absolutely digital financial institution, ALAT, commemorated Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week 2024 internet hosting an insightful seminar in accordance with the worldwide theme for Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week 2024, “Share A Story, Cease A Rip-off”. The seminar held at Wema Bank Head Workplace in Lagos on Wednesday, November twentieth, 2024.

Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week is a worldwide celebration commemorated yearly within the third week of November, with the objective of highlighting the growing menace that fraud poses on particular person, enterprise and societal ranges, in addition to encouraging people and establishments to take proactive steps in direction of minimising the influence of fraud. The theme of Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week 2024, “Share A Story, Cease A Rip-off”, significantly emphasises the importance of consciousness, data and training, in combatting fraud. Wema Bank, proactive in its dedication to combatting fraud, has through the years constructed a repute of teaching and empowering its prospects with the data, data and insights wanted to assist them determine, mitigate and escalate fraud on varied ranges, additional launching its Anti-Fraud marketing campaign by which it has not solely continued to unfold consciousness about fraud but additionally taken motion in opposition to fraudsters. With this remarkably constant anti-fraud stance, it’s no shock that Wema Bank took the choice to host this visionary seminar in commemoration of Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week 2024.

Stakeholders current at The Wema Bank Worldwide Fraud Consciousness Week 2024 embody Mr Oguzi Moses A., an Assistant Commander of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), Rypson Ugwuzor, Supervisor, Cybersecurity and Clever Automation, KPMG; authorized luminary Akin Adesomoju (SAN), Founder, Akin Adesomoju & Co.; Mr. Femi Akinola, Assistant Commissioner of Police on the Particular Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police Drive; and cybersecurity skilled Dr. Obadare Peter Adewale, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer (CVO), Digital Encode Restricted.

Wema Bank continues to show its agency stance in opposition to fraud, selling fraud consciousness internally and externally whereas taking agency motion in opposition to fraudsters who’ve tried to conduct fraudulent transactions on the community of FinTechs which the Financial institution continues to empower. Earlier in 2024, Wema Bank disconnected seven FinTechs discovered responsible of fraud from its community and continues to empower its prospects with insights on evolving fraud ways and channels for escalation by its Anti-Fraud Marketing campaign. Prospects and the general public can comply with @wemabank on Instagram, Fb, LinkedIn and X to remain up to date.