GDS Link appoints Managing Director of Fraud Solutions

Credit risk management software and analytics provider, GDS Link has announced that Brian Kinch has joined the team as the Managing Director of Fraud Solutions.

As one of our resident experts on fraud, Kinch will focus on how GDS Link delivers powerful solutions to help our clients combat all types of fraud in the lending space.

Kinch is an internationally recognized risk professional. He has over 30 years of experience, predominately discharging roles in domestic and international financial services businesses, including senior roles with HSBC, Visa International and Lloyds Banking Group. He has additional consulting expertise in areas such as insurance, telecommunications, the public sector and across industries in a risk, authentication, data protection, cyber, continuity and resilience context. Throughout his career, he has held senior positions with the decision management and analytic giant FICO (Fair Isaac) where he was a leading practitioner, and both led their global fraud consulting and was a leading contributor to their enterprise risk roadmap.

Kinch has also co-authored potential patents in the first party fraud and payment tokenization space, and was a founder of the Mobile Identity Authentication Standard (MIDAS) Alliance, a collaboration of Information Security professionals, which was responsible for the creation of the Publicly Available Specification (PAS 499) for digital authentication by the British Standards Institution.