IBM Safer Payments

Protect all cashless payments from fraud

 

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Outsmart fraudsters with generative AI

IBM® Safer Payments helps you create custom, user-friendly decision models so you can adapt to emerging threats faster and detect fraud patterns with greater speed and accuracy, all without vendor or data scientist dependencies. 

    Delivers high performance results

    Clients report high detection at ultra-low false-positive rates after deploying our solution.

    Brings agility to fraud management

    Build, test, validate and deploy machine-learning models in days versus months without reliance on vendors.

    Proven in production

    Monitor thousands of payments per second. Enterprise-grade solution delivers 99.999% availability and high throughput.

    Open source data science

    With an open platform, import detection models, model components and IP while using a rich interface to build new models.

    Feature Next generation approach

    Enables you to use any data science, machine learning or artificial intelligence technique –from any vendor or open source –to outsmart fraudsters.

    All channel solution

    Includes specific functionality to protect cards, online banking, and real-time payments. Profiles behavior and payment flow through all channels for lower false positives and reduced fraud losses.

    Freely configurable

    Everything in IBM Safer Payments is easily configurable. Full adaptation to customer data model. New data feeds can be configured in minutes.

    Bring your own model

    Build neural networks, random forests, decision trees, and regressions, using your preferred tools. Combine models of different types into ensembles, to leverage the best of each modeling technology.

    In-memory NoSQL database

    Purpose-built dual-access database technology delivers peak performances of multiple thousand transactions per second that runs on commodity hardware and any cloud environment.

    How it's used

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    Online and mobile banking

    IBM Safer Payments uses data from actual online and mobile banking sessions. Built-in device ID capability, with device behavior profiling and a device reputation database and biometric parameter recognition hardens this channel.

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      Model factory

      IBM API Developer Portal indicates when a Product is published and is available for use by application developers. A Product can be published to selected communities of application developer organizations, and the Plans within the Product can be used to tailor access and visibility further.

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      Online and mobile banking

      You can deprecate or supersede a published Product in API Manager by using the Manage Products page within a Catalog. When you deprecate a Product, application developers who are already subscribed to the Product can continue to use it, but no new developers can subscribe to the product.

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      Utilize open source data science

      IBM Safer Payments is the most open data science platform for payment fraud prevention currently available in the market. Export and import models in portable PMML format and ingest models or feature extractions as Python code.

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      Multitenancy and multichannel

      IBM Safer Payments provides hierarchical multitenancy. It efficiently manages hundreds of tenants, each customized. Inheritance allows maintenance of central models and configurations.

      Sender and recipient payment profile graphic chart
      Online and mobile banking

      IBM Safer Payments uses data from actual online and mobile banking sessions. Built-in device ID capability, with device behavior profiling and a device reputation database and biometric parameter recognition hardens this channel.

        Data science techniques graphic chart
        Model factory

        IBM API Developer Portal indicates when a Product is published and is available for use by application developers. A Product can be published to selected communities of application developer organizations, and the Plans within the Product can be used to tailor access and visibility further.

        Device ID capability graphic chart
        Online and mobile banking

        You can deprecate or supersede a published Product in API Manager by using the Manage Products page within a Catalog. When you deprecate a Product, application developers who are already subscribed to the Product can continue to use it, but no new developers can subscribe to the product.

        Open software graphic chart
        Utilize open source data science

        IBM Safer Payments is the most open data science platform for payment fraud prevention currently available in the market. Export and import models in portable PMML format and ingest models or feature extractions as Python code.

        Multi-tenant hierarchical graphic chart
        Multitenancy and multichannel

        IBM Safer Payments provides hierarchical multitenancy. It efficiently manages hundreds of tenants, each customized. Inheritance allows maintenance of central models and configurations.

        Case studies

        FIS

        FIS fights financial crime and fraud by infusing AI and intelligence workflows.

        Bank of New Zealand

        Learn how the bank delivered cross-channel fraud protection, resulting in a frictionless and safer payments experience.

        Take the next step

        Improve your risk and compliance program by scheduling a consultation with one of our experts.

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