As an industry, we’ve come a long way in utilizing data analytics and cybersecurity tools to find and prevent payments fraud, an issue we fight daily. However, there is a problem even more nefarious that we, as an industry, could be addressing more fervently with the use of the data we already have at hand: human trafficking.

Human trafficking cases have hit a 13-year record high, according to a UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) report released in 2018.