Overview
Join the data science revolution
IBM® Safer Payments enables your fraud prevention teams to adapt their controls faster to emerging threats and detect fraud with greater speed and accuracy without vendor or data scientist dependencies.
It comprises the analytics and simulation tools needed to continuously monitor business performance and adapt the decision model to emerging and modified fraud patterns.

Benefits
Delivers high performance results
Bring agility to fraud management
Proven in production
Open source data science
Feature spotlights
Join the data science revolution
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
Model factory

Model factory
To enable the combination of the best data science techniques, we created the "model factory" concept. It allows Safer Payments users to pick the combination of techniques best suited to solve their fraud problem.
Online and mobile banking

Online and mobile banking
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.
Utilize open source data science

Utilize open source data science
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.
Multitenancy and multichannel

Multitenancy and multichannel
Safer Payments provides hierarchical multitenancy. It efficiently manages hundreds of tenants, each customized. Inheritance allows maintenance of central models and configurations.
Testimonials
With IBM Safer Payments, we are reducing card fraud in France by more than USD 115 million per year
Rodolphe Meyer
CIO
STET
Up against this [P2P] challenge - along with the pressing needs for real-time decisioning and increased flexibility for our team, we’ve found IBM Safer Payments has exceeded our expectations
Norman Marraccini
General Manager Business Line Executive Retail Digital Payments, ACH and Real Time Payments
FIS
The three main benefits we see using IBM safer Payments: a 20% lower false-positive rate, the ability to make rule changes up to 90% faster than on traditional platforms, and the ability to manage all payment channels in one system
Dave Hemingway
Group executive, Product and Marketing
Indue
Announcements
Risk.net Asia Risk Awards 2020
IBM Safer Payments wins Fraud Detection and Prevention Product of the year.

Featured resources
Solution brief
IBM Safer Payments: It’s time for a better approach.
Technical white paper
Learn about IBM Safer Payments architecture and its underlying technology
Customer testimonial
FIS using IBM Safer Payments to protect real-time payments
Volt announcement
Australian neobank Volt adopts IBM Safer Payments into online banking platform
More resources
Blogs
How AI is helping stop real-time payment fraud
Learn how Indue drives efficiency through cost-effective fraud detection.
How IBM Watson supports Borgun’s international growth
Learn how Borgun reduces costs and scales fraud monitoring with IBM Safer Payments.
Case studies
Reports
The Forrester ‘Total Economic Impact’ Report
Cost savings and business benefits enabled by IBM Safer Payments
The Forrester ‘Total Economic Impact’ Infographic
Cost savings and business benefits enabled by IBM Safer Payments
FIS ‘Fraudsters continue to evolve’ Infographic
Fraudsters are employing increasingly sophisticated and organized methods to exploit electronic payments arenas.
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