Paolo Maria Pavan Fraud: The Shapeshifter That Banks Fear and SMEs Cannot Ignore Fraud is not fading. It is mutating. For years, banks pointed proudly to falling APP (Authorised Push Payment) fraud losses , as if the war was being won. But look deeper: overall fraud losses haven’t... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan SCAM THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 20, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Behind the Scam: How Fraudsters Exploit Marketing, Software, and Shell Companies Behind the Scam: A Risk Intelligence Autopsy Fraud, today, does not wear a hoodie and hide in a dark basement. It wears a tie, rents office space, and runs on CRM dashboards that would not look out of... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan SCAM THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 19, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan When a Savings Account Isn’t a Savings Account: Spotting the New Wave of Financial Scams Interest rates are moving, and many entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are scanning the horizon for a safe place to park cash reserves. A pop-up advert appears: a well-known international financial bran... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 18, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Cyber Resilience: The Silent Test Every Dutch Company is Already Taking In 2024, one in five Dutch companies learned the hard way what “cyber incident” really means. For large corporations, it was three in ten. The first blow? Financial loss. Then came the data breaches. ... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 13, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Fraud Has Learned a New Language, Have You? Once upon a time, fraud wore a fake moustache and asked for your bank details by post. Now it wears an AI-trained voice that sounds exactly like your accountant. It writes emails better than your mark... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 11, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Founders Without Nets: The 2025 Startup Grind & What GRC Teams Must Wake Up To FUNDING FREEFALL & THE SILENT KILLERS OF SCALE Let’s get one thing clear: raising money is no longer the biggest mountain to climb. It's proving that your startup deserves the money at all. According ... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 8, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Cash is Dead, Grandma Pays with Her Phone: Why 90% of Dutch Small Businesses Are Sleepwalking into a Payment Apocalypse by 2029 Let’s not sugarcoat it: the Dutch payments landscape is evolving faster than most entrepreneurs can keep up with. Between shiny mobile wallets, digital euros on the horizon, and every train tapping yo... ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 7, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why Your Hip Young Intern Is More Dangerous Than Your Grandmother: The Cybersecurity Time Bomb Inside Gen Z They told us grandma would fall for the “Nigerian prince.” Turns out, it’s her grandson clicking on phishing links while juggling five side hustles and a Tinder match. Yes, really. Welcome to the upsi... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 5, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Entrepreneurs: Doing Business with Venezuela in 2025? You’re Out of Your Mind Venezuela’s in the spotlight again, but not for the right reasons. The Netherlands has officially issued a Code Red travel warning for the South American nation. Not a “be careful” yellow. Not a “watc... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Aug 1, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Georgian Dumplings, Kremlin Cash & Czech Gangsters: What’s Really Cooking at Pirosmani? Four tables, a fireplace, a Louis Vuitton bag, and a black Mercedes. It sounds like the setup for a Netflix drama. But this is real life in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, where khachapuri is on the men... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Jul 31, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Banks Are Spying on Each Other (And You): TMNL Shuts Down as EU Unleashes AMLR Something big just happened in the Dutch financial landscape. TMNL – that ambitious joint venture between ABN AMRO, ING, Rabobank, Triodos Bank, and De Volksbank, is pressing pause. Not because they f... AML AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Jul 30, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Busted E-Bike Scam: How Small Biz Gets Screwed While China Rides Free Customs fraud is no longer a faraway crime reserved for shady offshore importers. It could be riding right into your warehouse, on two wheels, from China, disguised as “metal parts.” This week, the Eu... AUDIO ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan THIRD PARTY RISK Jul 29, 2025