Cifas Joins the Global Signal Exchange to Accelerate the Fight Against Scams
Nearly 800 UK organisations connect into the network, with almost 500 new signals shared on day one.
The Global Signal Exchange has a new partner, and it's not a small one. Cifas, the UK's leading not-for-profit fraud prevention service, has today connected its network of nearly 800 member organisations, spanning banking, retail, insurance, and telecoms, directly into the GSE.
The timing matters. Scams and fraud are estimated to have cost the global economy $579.4bn (over £433bn) in 2025, and close to £10bn of that hits UK consumers every year. On day one of the partnership, almost 500 new signals moved through the network.
How the partnership works
At the centre of it is Scamlink, Cifas' own centralised repository of scam signals. Cifas has already shared its first batch into the GSE, adding directly to a system that now processes over 1.3 billion data points in real time. Each signal, a flagged domain, a suspicious URL, a risky IP, strengthens the picture for every partner in the network, not just Cifas.
The relationship runs both ways. Cifas members contribute to takedowns across jurisdictions, while drawing on intelligence from the wider network, including Google, Microsoft, and Meta, to strengthen their own defences at home.
Mike Haley, CEO of Cifas, said: "Connecting into a global network of technology platforms and infrastructure providers ensures our members can take faster, more decisive action. This marks an important step in bringing 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: "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."
The bigger picture
Nearly 800 organisations joining at once is the kind of scale the GSE was built to absorb. It's proof, again, that the network effect at the heart of the exchange isn't theoretical, it compounds every time a partner connects. Cifas' first day alone added almost 500 new signals to a system that already processes over a billion.
The fight against fraud has always needed more than any one organisation could bring to it. With Cifas now in the network, it has a little more.
