[Sponsored Session] The Rise of Agentic Fraud Ops: Fighting Fraud at Machine Speed
About This Session
AI has fundamentally broken trust on the internet, and the numbers prove it. With AI-driven fraud attacks up 311% in Q1 2026, synthetic IDs growing increasingly convincing, and deepfakes now indistinguishable from real video, fraudsters are operating at machine speed. Meanwhile, financial institutions are being asked to do more with less: flat budgets, frozen headcount, and every tool under scrutiny.
In this session, Sardine founder and CEO Soups Ranjan makes the case that the only way to fight AI fraud is with AI, and lays out a practical blueprint for redesigning fraud operations around agentic workflows. Drawing on real attack scenarios, including a February 2026 case where 150K+ fraudulent accounts were created using stolen identities, Soups demonstrates how a coordinated chain of specialized AI agents, including anomaly detection, data analysis, graph analysis, and rule generation, can compress a week of data science work into five minutes.
Attendees will leave with a clear framework for getting their data AI-ready, identifying the right first use cases, and building agentic pipelines that let lean fraud teams punch far above their weight.
In this session, Sardine founder and CEO Soups Ranjan makes the case that the only way to fight AI fraud is with AI, and lays out a practical blueprint for redesigning fraud operations around agentic workflows. Drawing on real attack scenarios, including a February 2026 case where 150K+ fraudulent accounts were created using stolen identities, Soups demonstrates how a coordinated chain of specialized AI agents, including anomaly detection, data analysis, graph analysis, and rule generation, can compress a week of data science work into five minutes.
Attendees will leave with a clear framework for getting their data AI-ready, identifying the right first use cases, and building agentic pipelines that let lean fraud teams punch far above their weight.
Speaker
Soups Ranjan
CEO - Sardine
Soups Ranjan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime. Before founding Sardine, he was Head of Financial Crime at Revolut, where he built the fraud and compliance stack from scratch, and Head of Risk at Coinbase, where he built ML-based fraud and identity systems as the platform scaled 1000x.
With 20+ years applying machine learning to fraud, Soups built Sardine as an end-to-end platform that brings fraud and AML data into one place. Today, Sardine serves over 450 global enterprises and financial institutions, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, Experian, Google, and others.
Soups holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University.
With 20+ years applying machine learning to fraud, Soups built Sardine as an end-to-end platform that brings fraud and AML data into one place. Today, Sardine serves over 450 global enterprises and financial institutions, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, Experian, Google, and others.
Soups holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University.
