The Outlier Lab

Resources

Glossary, frameworks, reports, regulatory sources, communities, learning and tooling.

7 resources.

ResourceSummary
Books, Courses and CertificationsCredentials, courses and books worth a transaction fraud practitioner's time, with who each suits, what it covers and where it falls short for transaction fraud.
Communities and ConferencesPractitioner communities, associations, information-sharing groups and recurring conferences relevant to transaction fraud, with who each serves and how to get value from it.
Frameworks and TaxonomiesThe external frameworks and classification schemes a transaction fraud team should know, what each is good for, and how The Outlier Lab maps onto them.
Glossary300+ transaction fraud terms (rails, return and dispute codes, rewards, brokerage, detection, ML, operations, QA and regulation) with short definitions and links into the vault.
Newsletters and PodcastsOngoing reading and listening for transaction fraud practitioners, checked for activity in 2026, with what each source is best for and its bias.
Open Source Tools for Fraud TeamsDefender-side open-source tools for transaction fraud teams (graph, rules, feature stores, imbalanced ML, anomaly detection, image hashing, monitoring platforms) with fit, license and caveats.
Reports and Data SourcesThe recurring reports and datasets transaction fraud teams cite, what each is actually good for, and the caveats that keep you from misusing the numbers.