Fraud in financial support | Lightning Reach x Vouchsafe | Webinar

How councils, housing associations, utility companies and charities can protect funds in the age of AI fraud without excluding people. 2026 has seen an unprecedented surge in identity fraud across the entire economy. Services that disburse money and financial help have always been a tempting target for fraudsters. Even with commonplace means testing, fraud controls often lag behind those of banking, credit and other financial services. Now that AI tools make sophisticated attacks easy to carry out, and worthwhile against even small targets, that’s not a sustainable situation to be in any more. In this free online webinar, Chloe Coleman (CEO, Vouchsafe) is joined by Rhiannon Sheridan (CEO, Lightning Reach) to discuss how public and third sector orgs and their private sector partners can use modern threat intelligence, digital evidence and official data to spot fraud in real time, and better serve citizens who need genuine support. ABOUT LIGHTNING REACH Lightning Reach is an award-winning fintech-for-good platform. They connect people to financial support faster and easier than ever before. Despite over 20 million people living in financially vulnerable circumstances, over £24 billion in financial support goes unclaimed each year. Lightning Reach has helped over 300,000 people find over £25m in financial support since being launched in 2021. ABOUT VOUCHSAFE Vouchsafe is the first real-time fraud bureau. We provide one simple integration that every organisation needs to trust their users fearlessly and detect even novel AI attacks. Vouchsafe now helps over 100 organisations protect each other from identity fraud by automatically contributing threat data in real time during transaction monitoring and onboarding.