Cifas joins Global Signal Exchange to accelerate global fight against scams

• Over 1.3 billion data points flowing through global platform in real time
• Phishing, malware, and spam continue to create significant harm for consumers
• Cifas members share cross-sector data and intelligence to support removal of scam content worldwide

The UK’s fraud prevention service, Cifas, has today announced a major partnership with the Global Signal Exchange (GSE) to strengthen the global fight against a threat estimated to cost the global economy $579.4bn (over £433bn) in 2025. Together, Cifas and the GSE, will work to identify, disrupt, and prevent online scams at scale across borders and sectors, with almost 500 new signals on the first day of operation.

The partnership will see Cifas connect its extensive UK network of nearly 800 member organisations – spanning industries including banking, retail, insurance, and telecoms – with a rapidly growing global ecosystem of technology companies including Google, Microsoft and Meta, financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and law enforcement.

The collaboration will enable, Cifas members to contribute directly to the global removal of scam content across jurisdictions, while drawing on intelligence surfaced across the wider network to strengthen protections closer to home, accelerating international efforts to tackle a threat that increasingly operates without borders and costs UK consumers almost £10bn each year.

At the heart of the partnership is Scamlink – Cifas’ centralised repository of scam signals, contributed by members and used to detect and disrupt scams. Cifas has already shared its first batch of signals with the GSE, enhancing the platform’s global intelligence and reinforcing collective efforts to enable the speedy shut down of malicious activity.

Each signal – which includes data such as suspicious URLs, domains, and IP addresses – strengthens the wider network, improving the ability for organisations to act quickly and decisively. These signals are combined with over 1.3bn data points already processed by the GSE’s advanced analytics engine, which provides a real-time, global view of significant scam activity such as phishing, malware, and spam content.

It is this scale that gives the GSE its edge. By merging signals from technology platforms, banks, infrastructure providers and law enforcement across borders, its analytics engine reveals the supply chains behind global scams, exposing connections no single organisation could see alone. Cifas’ data and intelligence now feed directly into that picture, strengthening the collective response for every partner in the network.

Mike Haley, CEO of Cifas, said: “Scams are a global threat and tackling them demands coordinated action across sectors and borders. Through the GSE partnership, Cifas members are helping to identify and disrupt harmful content at scale – with their critical and specialist insight contributing directly to the takedown of scams across jurisdictions.

“Connecting into a global network of technology platforms and infrastructure providers ensures our members can take faster, more decisive action. This also marks an important step in Cifas continuing to bring organisations together to enable a truly collective response to stopping scams at source.”

Emily Taylor, CEO of Oxford Information Labs and Co-Founder of the GSE, said: “Scams don’t respect borders, and neither can our response. Cifas brings deep, specialist intelligence from nearly 800 UK organisations, and connecting that into the Global Signal Exchange means those signals can now drive takedowns anywhere in the world, in real time.

“Every partner who joins makes the whole network sharper. That is the point of a shared clearing house: the more the ecosystem contributes, the harder it becomes for the facilitators of fraud to hide.”

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About Cifas

Cifas is the UK’s leading not-for-profit fraud prevention service with nearly 800 members from across key economic sectors including banking, retail, insurance, and telecoms. Cifas protects businesses and individuals from fraud through the sharing of data and intelligence sharing between the private, public and third sectors. In addition to providing products and services – which helped businesses prevent more than £2.4 billion in fraud losses in 2025 – Cifas delivers specialist training through its Cifas Fraud and Cyber Academy and Digital Learning programme. For more information about Cifas, visit: Website | LinkedIn | X

About The Global Signal Exchange

A UK-based non-profit owned by Oxford Information Labs (OXIL), the Global Signal Exchange (GSE) is the world’s first global, multi-stakeholder and cross-sector clearing house for threat signals. Launched in January 2025, the GSE is a platform for real-time sharing of scam and fraud signals – URLs, domains, IP addresses, emails, and more. Working with global partners worldwide, the GSE provides real-time insights into the supply chains delivering scams, fraud and other forms of cybercrime. By merging as many data sources as possible GSE makes the facilitators of cybercrime more visible. For more information, visit here.

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