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Despite AI’s Rise, Fraud Teams Keep Growing — SEON 2026 Report
SEON, the command centre for immediate Fraud Prevention and AML Compliance, has unveiled AI Reality Check: 2026 Fraud & AML Leaders Report, the second iteration of its sector research, derived from a worldwide survey of 1,010 leaders in fraud, risk, and compliance spanning payments, fintech, financial services, retail, eCommerce, and gaming.
The figures reveal an unforeseen narrative: AI is ubiquitous, yet operations are not becoming easier to manage. Currently, 98% of organizations utilize AI in fraud and AML processes, with 95% expressing confidence in its effectiveness; meanwhile, headcount plans rose from 88% to 94% year-over-year, and 83% anticipate budget increases in 2026.
Complexity Is Surpassing Automation
AI has not lessened the workload — it has revealed the extent of work that has always existed. Fraud losses are increasingly approaching revenue growth, threats are advancing more rapidly, and disjointed systems restrict the true potential of AI at scale. Key year-over-year shift:
Leadership’s confidence in their teams’ performance is lagging. The number of leaders who disagreed with the statement, “fraud losses are growing faster than revenue,” dropped by almost 40% from the previous year
Inside the Numbers:
AI is baseline, not experimental
- 98% already integrate AI into daily workflows (only 2% still planning)
- 95% are confident AI can detect and prevent fraud (52% very confident)
- Top use case: AI/ML for transaction monitoring (30%)
Fraud and AML investment keeps climbing
- 83% expect fraud/AML budgets to increase in 2026
- 94% plan to add at least one full-time hire (up from 88% in 2025)
- 85% plan to add a vendor, 49% plan to replace one
Fragmentation is the bottleneck
- 95% claim “some integration” between fraud and AML systems
- Only 47% run fully integrated workflows; the rest rely on partial connections
- 80% say getting a unified view of data is challenging
For many, time-to-value remains slow
Only 10% go live in under two weeks
38% take 1–3 months, 24% take 4+ months
When implementations run long, top impacts include increased costs (52%) and prolonged fraud exposure (47%)
Teams are growing, not shrinking
94% plan to increase headcount despite automation gains
85% see AI agents as support/augmentation, not replacement (only 12% see eventual replacement)
Top fraud threats reported:
- Account takeovers: 26%
- Promo/discount abuse: 18%
- Return fraud: 18%
“Fraud and financial crime were supposed to become more manageable as AI matured,” said Tamas Kadar, CEO and co-founder, SEON. “Instead, 2026 is the year leaders are confronting a more complicated reality. AI adoption is real, confidence is high, but the scale and pace of fraud — compounded by fragmented systems — continue to drive increased investment rather than reduced overhead. The bottleneck is no longer whether AI works. It’s everything around it: disconnected data, siloed teams, slow implementations. The organisations that pull ahead will be the ones that unify fraud and AML intelligence, shorten the distance between threats and controls, and treat integration as strategy, not plumbing.”
Fast-Growing Companies Invest in Integration Early
Organisations growing 51%+ are nearly twice as likely as slower peers to report that achieving unified visibility is “not very challenging.” They treat integration as infrastructure, not an IT project.
What’s Next: From “Does AI Work?” to “Can We Trust It?”
With adoption near-universal, the conversation is shifting to governance, explainability and accountability:
- 78% say decentralised digital identity will become central to fraud/AML
- 33% cite data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) as the biggest external force shaping AML
- 25% point to criminals’ advancing use of AI and obfuscation techniques
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BetConstruct AI Charts a New Course for Brazil’s iGaming Market at SBC Summit Rio 2026
BetConstruct AI is thrilled to share its involvement in the SBC Summit Rio 2026, taking place from March 4-5 at the Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro. As Brazil enters its second year of complete regulation, BetConstruct AI emerges at this critical market moment to present a vision of technological empowerment and strategic independence.
At Stand A230, attendees will find an extensive range of AI-powered solutions tailored to satisfy the expectations of the Brazilian crowd. The exhibition highlights the top-tier Sportsbook and Casino Platforms, designed to expand quickly while ensuring peak performance levels.
Apart from the main platforms, BetConstruct AI supplies the necessary framework for a leading online brand. This encompasses CMS Pro, a tailored content management system that enables operators to oversee their complete business from one unified platform, and SpringBuilder X, our mobile-centric, SEO-focused drag-and-drop website creator that removes the necessity for technical expertise. Advancing customization, BetChain AI provides an innovative method to design and develop iGaming sites more efficiently and intelligently, granting partners complete creative authority. These essential tools are crafted to operate in complete synergy with our advanced intelligence layer, establishing a smooth connection between an impressive user interface and intricate back-end automation.
At the heart of the exhibition lies the BetConstruct AI Suite, an advanced set of tools designed to streamline and enhance the operator’s experience.
This encompasses:
●CRM AI: Delivering deep behavioral insights to enhance player retention.
●Umbrella AI: Providing real-time risk management and automated player protection.
●AI Game Recommendation System: Ensuring personalized content delivery to maximize engagement.
●Betting Mate: An intuitive AI companion that elevates the player experience with real-time stats and insights.
Demonstrating its dedication to the long-term success of the Brazilian market, BetConstruct AI will emphasize its unique “The Choice to Grow” initiative. This performance-driven program aims to incentivize partners that reach a 16.67% growth in GGR each quarter. Achieving these goals across a wide array of products – such as Sportsbook, Virtual Sports, and partner brands like PopOK Gaming and CreedRoomz – enables operators to receive a 51% invoice discount every third month, plus exclusive service advantages and tournament participation.
BetConstruct AI encourages all industry stakeholders, operators, and media representatives to stop by Stand A230 at Riocentro. The team will be present during the summit to showcase how a connected, AI-driven ecosystem enables partners to select the route of innovation, efficiency, and market leadership in the Brazilian market.
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PEC.BET Partners with Tugi Tark to Strengthen Sportsbook Offerings
AI-driven customer support company Tugi Tark has revealed a collaboration with PEC.BET, a recently established sportsbook and online casino operator that offers players access to various bookmakers via a single account. The collaboration integrates Tugi Tark’s customer support system and iGaming-focused AI agents into PEC.BET’s player assistance operations as the operator launches in the market.
PEC.BET functions on a cutting-edge multi-bookmaker sportsbook system that embraces winners. Grounded in transparency and accessibility, PEC.BET recognized customer service infrastructure as a critical operational focus from the outset and chose Tugi Tark for this purpose to create its support system.
“As a new operator, it was important for us to put the right operational foundations in place from the beginning,” said a spokesperson PEC.BET. “Our multi-bookmaker model means we welcome winners, which shapes how we approach player relationships. Working with Tugi Tark allows us to support players efficiently while ensuring our internal team remains focused on more complex player matters and VIP care.”
Tugi Tark’s AI platform for customer service offers PEC.BET a unified space to oversee player assistance through various channels. AI agents help with initial resolutions, while more complicated issues are forwarded to support personnel. This method allows PEC.BET to uphold consistent service while adjusting to rising demand as the operator expands.
“PEC.BET is entering the market with a clear focus on transparency and accessibility for players,” said Harpo Lilja, CEO of Tugi Tark. “Our role is to provide a support layer that can operate consistently from day one and scale alongside the platform as it grows.”
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FlexPlay: building a platform made to grow with its partners
FlexPlay is entering a new phase with the launch of its own casino platform. Leonid Matison, Head of Customer Success, speaks with EEGaming about what inspired the company’s evolution, how it is helping partners adapt to change, and why a focus on flexibility, creativity, and collaboration is driving its vision for the future.
What inspired the move into the platform space, and how did that background shape your approach to creating it?
FlexPlay was born from EvenBet Gaming out of working closely with operators and studios as an aggregator, so we had a very clear view of where existing platforms were falling short. Many operators were forced to adapt their business models to rigid technology instead of the other way around.
Moving into the platform space was a natural evolution. We wanted to build a product that reflects how the market actually works today: fragmented regulation, fast-changing player behaviour, and the need to launch, test, and adapt quickly. That background shaped our approach significantly. Instead of building a “one-size-fits-all” platform, we focused on modularity, flexibility, and speed, so operators can grow without having to rebuild their infrastructure every time their strategy changes.
The platform market is full of established names. What makes FlexPlay stand out, and what kind of identity are you building for the brand?
Our differentiation isn’t about being louder or bigger — it’s about being more adaptable. FlexPlay is designed as a partner-centric platform, not a closed ecosystem.
We are building an identity around flexibility, transparency, and collaboration. Operators can customise their product, UX, content strategy, and growth roadmap instead of fitting into predefined templates. Commercially, we also remove unnecessary pressure at early stages, for example with models where partners don’t pay content fees until they actually start growing.
In a crowded market, identity comes from how you work with partners day-to-day, not just from features on a website.
You have described FlexPlay as a platform that “evolves alongside its partners.” What does that look like in practice for operators working with you?
We don’t treat launch as the finish line. We stay actively involved after go-live.
Operators receive ongoing support in analysing performance, adjusting content portfolios, testing new mechanics, and refining player engagement strategies. Our platform allows operators to add, remove, or prioritise content quickly, run experiments, and respond to real player data instead of assumptions.
We also actively listen to partner feedback and translate it into platform improvements. If a feature or workflow doesn’t serve operators in real conditions, we adjust it.
How does that flexibility help brands entering fast-changing or emerging markets where conditions can shift quickly?
Emerging markets rarely follow a stable or predictable path. This year, we are going to SiGMA Africa for the first time, and this continent is just the right example of how quickly and often market transforms. Regulation changes, payment preferences evolve, and player behaviour can shift very quickly.
FlexPlay’s flexibility allows operators to adapt without disruption: adjusting payment flows, reconfiguring bonuses, changing content focus, or localising UX. The platform isn’t locked into rigid structures, so operators can react to market signals in weeks rather than months.
This is especially important for brands entering highly volatile markets in Africa or LatAm, where the ability to pivot often determines success.
AI is a hot topic right now. How are you exploring its potential at FlexPlay, and what do you find most exciting about how it can genuinely support operators and players?
We approach AI very pragmatically. For us, it’s not about replacing people or creating black-box systems, but about enhancing decision-making.
We are exploring AI in areas like player segmentation, behavioural analysis, and content recommendations. It may help operators understand what players actually want and when. AI can also support smarter lobbies, more relevant promotions, and better detection of engagement patterns.
What excites us most is AI’s ability to reduce noise. It can highlight what truly matters and help them act faster and more confidently. But it can’t and will not fully replace strategic decision-making by humans.
Personalisation has become an essential part of modern player engagement. What does it mean to you in practice, and how is FlexPlay helping operators bring it to life?
For us, personalisation means relevance. Not just visuals or messages, but the entire player journey. FlexPlay enables operators to segment players based on behaviour, preferences, and performance, and then tailor content, bonuses, and communication accordingly. This helps players discover games that actually match their interests instead of scrolling through endless lobbies.
Good personalisation improves retention and trust. Players feel understood rather than pushed, and operators benefit from stronger long-term engagement.
But we suggest avoiding over-personalisation: if the players see only the recommended “long tail”, it may affect the operator’s revenue. Manual curation in addition to personalisation (like featuring a seasonal game during a holiday, or an operator’s personal favourite) allows for strategic promotions and branding.
Growth can be exciting but also challenging for operators. How do you and your team at FlexPlay support partners as they take that next step?
Growth often exposes weaknesses in technology or strategy. Our role is to help operators scale without losing control.
We support partners with analytics, reviews, and strategic guidance, helping them prioritise what to scale and what to optimise first. Technically, the platform is built to handle growth without forcing structural changes. Commercially, we remain flexible so that a transition is easier for operators.
Looking ahead, what are the key milestones or developments you are focused on for the year ahead?
Our focus is on deepening platform intelligence and partner value. This includes expanding AI-driven tools, improving content discoverability, and enhancing automation where it adds efficiency.
We are also investing in better insights for operators: not just reporting, but actionable recommendations that help them make smarter decisions faster.
Another priority is continuing to refine our platform based on real partner use cases, not theoretical ones.
And finally, when you think about FlexPlay’s future, what do you hope the company will represent within the wider iGaming industry?
I hope FlexPlay will be seen as a trusted growth partner — a company that helped operators build sustainable businesses rather than short-term results.
In an industry that often focuses on speed and scale, we want to represent balance: technology that adapts, content that makes sense, and partnerships built on mutual success.
If operators look back and say, “FlexPlay helped us grow the right way,” that will be the real measure of success.
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