"Fraud is always going to be a cat and mouse game"

An interview with Ashwin Padmanabhan, head of trading and partnerships, GroupM India. This is part of a special series of conversations with media agency heads - interview 10 of 31.

Note: This interview was conducted for the mid-March edition of our magazine afaqs!Reporter. It is a special issue dedicated to the top media planning and buying executives, who service some of India's largest advertisers. Market conditions have changed dramatically since this interview was first written and any apparent obsoletion therein must be seen in that context. To read/download all 31 interviews, please click here.