FRAUD, AML & RISK ADVISORY FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

Build risk systems that protect growth, not slow it down.

Build risk systems that protect growth, not slow it down.

I help fintech, marketplace, and scaling technology companies design and modernize fraud, AML, compliance, and risk operations; from strategy and controls to tooling, data, and team execution.

I help fintech, marketplace, and scaling technology companies design and modernize fraud, AML, compliance, and risk operations; from strategy and controls to tooling, data, and team execution.

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Experience built inside leading companies. Perspective applied to growing businesses.

Nearly 20 years building and leading risk programs across technology, marketplaces, payments, and fintech.

Nearly 20 years building and leading risk programs across technology, marketplaces, payments, and fintech.

Google
Uber
Eventbrite
Zoosk
Plastiq
Branch
Zeni

35%

Lower monthly chargeback losses

A real outcome from tightening fraud controls, improving dispute responses, and acting on loss drivers.

30%

Increase in payments collected

A real outcome from finding decline and recovery issues across payment flows.

50%

Shorter review times

A real outcome from simplifying verification, routing, and investigation workflows.

WHEN CLIENTS CALL

Risk gets harder as the business grows.

Risk gets harder as the business grows.

Tal Yeshanov works with teams at inflection points; when existing controls, tools, or operating models can no longer keep up with the business.

Tal Yeshanov works with teams at inflection points; when existing controls, tools, or operating models can no longer keep up with the business.

01

Growth is moving faster than the risk program.

02

Fraud or compliance controls are creating too much customer friction.

03

Point solutions, manual reviews, and tribal knowledge are limiting the team.

04

A new product, market, audit, or regulatory milestone requires a stronger operating model.

05

The company needs experienced risk leadership before making a permanent hire.

SERVICES

Manage risk. Support growth. Make it easier for good customers to do business with you.

Manage risk. Support growth. Make it easier for good customers to do business with you.

I help fintechs, payments businesses, marketplaces, and merchants solve fraud, payments, onboarding, credit, and risk operations challenges.

What I can help with

Reduce fraud and chargebacks.

Investigate loss drivers, improve fraud rules, reduce false positives, and strengthen dispute responses.

Improve onboarding and verification.

Simplify customer and business verification, reduce unnecessary manual reviews, and clarify approval decisions.

Resolve payments problems.

Investigate unexplained declines, failed refunds, and issues across cards, ACH, wires, bill pay, and payouts.

Strengthen credit decisions.

Improve SMB underwriting, credit-limit guidelines, and exception handling.

Choose and implement risk technology.

Define requirements, evaluate vendors, test solutions, and help your team put them into use.

Improve operations with automation and AI.

Reduce backlogs, clarify team responsibilities, and introduce practical tools for investigations, internal support, and reporting.

Prepare for launch or growth.

Establish controls, policies, workflows, metrics, and staffing for new products or a growing risk function.

Building a risk technology product?

I also help providers refine product workflows, understand buyer needs, and design customer pilots.

How we can work together

01

Consultation & Advisory

You need experienced guidance.

BEST FOR

Founders, executives, and risk leaders who have a team to execute and want a senior advisor to help set direction.

HOW IT WORKS

Work through a specific challenge in a one-hour consultation, or get ongoing advisory support for important decisions, strategy, and priorities.

YOU LEAVE WITH

Clear recommendations and next steps.

02

Focused Projects

You need a problem solved or a capability built.

BEST FOR

Teams that need dedicated support to assess a challenge, implement improvements, and measure results.

PROJECT SCOPE

Bring me in for a defined project, such as an onboarding review, fraud-rule improvement, vendor evaluation, or operations redesign.

NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

Start with a two-week Risk Strategy Action Plan focused on one agreed area, once the necessary information is available.

YOU GET

Agreed deliverables, a timeline, success measures, and a clear division of implementation responsibilities.

03

Fractional Risk Leadership

You need someone to lead the work.

BEST FOR

Companies building a risk function, scaling, or filling a leadership gap.

WHAT IT INCLUDES

An experienced, part-time Head of Risk to set strategy, lead teams, coordinate execution, and oversee results, whether you are building a function, scaling, or filling a leadership gap.

YOU GET

Accountable leadership with agreed weekly involvement and responsibilities.

EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ADVICE

My background includes building risk operations, developing onboarding and investigation processes, and hands-on fraud and payments work. I bring that operating experience to recommendations that fit your team, technology, and business priorities. For compliance related projects, I work with your legal and compliance owners to turn requirements into practical workflows.

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APPROACH

See the whole journey. Build for the real business.

See the whole journey. Build for the real business.

Consulting team working through a strategy workshop

01

Look beyond the transaction

Individual device, payment, identity, and behavioral signals are only pieces of the picture. Effective risk programs understand the customer journey and how risks connect.

Individual device, payment, identity, and behavioral signals are only pieces of the picture. Effective risk programs understand the customer journey and how risks connect.

02

Balance protection and growth

Strong controls should stop harmful behavior while preserving legitimate customer activity and supporting the company’s commercial goals.

Strong controls should stop harmful behavior while preserving legitimate customer activity and supporting the company’s commercial goals.

03

Leave an operating system behind

Recommendations must translate into ownership, workflows, data, documentation, and decisions the team can sustain after the engagement.

Recommendations must translate into ownership, workflows, data, documentation, and decisions the team can sustain after the engagement.

EXPERIENCE

Built by an operator, not an outside observer.

Built by an operator, not an outside observer.

Tal Yeshanov is a risk and AML executive with nearly 20 years of experience across leading technology and fintech companies. Her career has included building fraud programs at companies such as Eventbrite and Uber during periods of rapid growth, modernizing risk operations and decisioning, leading teams across fraud, payments, AML, compliance, and strategic financial operations, and advising emerging risk-technology companies. Tal is known for solving problems where the business model is evolving faster than the available playbook. Her work connects strategy with implementation: the controls, data, tools, processes, and teams required to operate a modern risk program.

Tal Yeshanov is a risk and AML executive with nearly 20 years of experience across leading technology and fintech companies. Her career has included building fraud programs at companies such as Eventbrite and Uber during periods of rapid growth, modernizing risk operations and decisioning, leading teams across fraud, payments, AML, compliance, and strategic financial operations, and advising emerging risk-technology companies. Tal is known for solving problems where the business model is evolving faster than the available playbook. Her work connects strategy with implementation: the controls, data, tools, processes, and teams required to operate a modern risk program.

Risk leader working through a complex operating problem

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INSIGHTS

A practical point of view on modern risk.

A practical point of view on modern risk.

FEATURED CONVERSATION

From Snapshot to Journey: Holistic Fraud Detection in the Age of AI

From Snapshot to Journey: Holistic Fraud Detection in the Age of AI

A Fraudology conversation about customer-journey signals, orchestration, false positives, institutional knowledge, account security, and where AI genuinely improves risk operations.

A Fraudology conversation about customer-journey signals, orchestration, false positives, institutional knowledge, account security, and where AI genuinely improves risk operations.

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PODCAST

AI Fraud Detection Is Now a Commodity! Here’s What Actually Wins

AI Fraud Detection Is Now a Commodity! Here’s What Actually Wins

Tal joins industry experts on the Fraud Boxer Podcast to explore why AI models are becoming commodities, and why structured risk knowledge, fraud typologies, and institutional expertise are the real competitive advantage.

Tal joins industry experts on the Fraud Boxer Podcast to explore why AI models are becoming commodities, and why structured risk knowledge, fraud typologies, and institutional expertise are the real competitive advantage.

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PRESENTATION

Using Analytics to Stop Fraud by Understanding User Behaviors

Using Analytics to Stop Fraud by Understanding User Behaviors

In this Uber Tech Day presentation, Tal explains how behavioral analytics can uncover fraud patterns and strengthen risk decision-making at scale.

In this Uber Tech Day presentation, Tal explains how behavioral analytics can uncover fraud patterns and strengthen risk decision-making at scale.

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PANEL

Make It or Buy It? FraudCON Panel

Make It or Buy It? FraudCON Panel

Tal joins fellow risk leaders to discuss when companies should build fraud capabilities internally and when purchasing an external solution makes better strategic sense.

Tal joins fellow risk leaders to discuss when companies should build fraud capabilities internally and when purchasing an external solution makes better strategic sense.

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CONVERSATION

Creating a Fraud Typology for AI to Learn From

Creating a Fraud Typology for AI to Learn From

A conversation about transforming institutional fraud knowledge and typologies into structured intelligence that AI agents can use for faster, context-aware investigations.

A conversation about transforming institutional fraud knowledge and typologies into structured intelligence that AI agents can use for faster, context-aware investigations.

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ARTICLE

What Is Friendly Fraud and How Does Plastiq Help Protect Your Business?

What Is Friendly Fraud and How Does Plastiq Help Protect Your Business?

Tal explains the growing impact of first-party misuse, along with practical approaches to chargeback prevention, compelling evidence, and representment.

Tal explains the growing impact of first-party misuse, along with practical approaches to chargeback prevention, compelling evidence, and representment.

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ARTICLE

Eliminating Friendly Fraud: 10 Friendly Tips from Uber

Eliminating Friendly Fraud: 10 Friendly Tips from Uber

Ten practical tactics from Uber for preventing friendly fraud, reducing avoidable chargebacks, and improving the economics of representment.

Ten practical tactics from Uber for preventing friendly fraud, reducing avoidable chargebacks, and improving the economics of representment.

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ARTICLE

Holiday Fraud Prevention: Seven Tips from the Pros

Holiday Fraud Prevention: Seven Tips from the Pros

Seven expert strategies for preparing fraud operations for seasonal spikes, including Tal’s advice on adapting rules and models to changing holiday purchasing behavior.

Seven expert strategies for preparing fraud operations for seasonal spikes, including Tal’s advice on adapting rules and models to changing holiday purchasing behavior.

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PANEL

What POCs Are Not Telling You About Real Performance Results

What POCs Are Not Telling You About Real Performance Results

Tal and fellow industry experts explain how merchants can structure fraud-platform proofs of concept that more accurately predict real-world performance.

Tal and fellow industry experts explain how merchants can structure fraud-platform proofs of concept that more accurately predict real-world performance.

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INTERVIEW

Friendly fraud is not friendly.

Friendly fraud is not friendly.

Why evidence, behavioral context, and layered signals matter when addressing chargebacks and first-party misuse.

Why evidence, behavioral context, and layered signals matter when addressing chargebacks and first-party misuse.

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CONTACT

Bring me the risk problem that no longer fits the old playbook.

Bring me the risk problem that no longer fits the old playbook.

For founders and executives who need an experienced operator to assess the problem, clarify the decisions, and help the team execute.

For founders and executives who need an experienced operator to assess the problem, clarify the decisions, and help the team execute.

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tal@tyriskadvisory.com

Prefer email? Send a brief description of the challenge and I’ll respond directly.

Prefer email? Send a brief description of the challenge and I’ll respond directly.