Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Financial advisors are increasingly vulnerable to AI-driven fraud, such as deepfakes and voice cloning, which are making scams more personalized and profitable. Experts recommend moving beyond visual detection toward robust financial controls like programmable smart accounts and strict verification protocols.
Why it matters
As AI-enabled financial crime scales, traditional security measures are becoming obsolete, necessitating a shift toward systemic, programmatic financial safeguards.
In today’s newsletter, Kriti Bansal examines the rise of AI-driven fraud and provides a framework of rigorous financial controls to help advisors secure client assets against sophisticated impersonation tactics.
Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Varun Choudhary , CEO of ORO, discusses how money managers can automate defensive layers against fraud by transitioning to programmable smart accounts and using automated monitoring to create programmatic security guardrails at the account level.
As AI makes impersonation cheap and convincing, an advisor’s strongest protection isn’t a better eye for fakes — it’s the verification, separation of duties and reconciliation they already know.
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