FinTech · Case study

Leading FinTech Company in UK

Real-time fraud signal was siloed across acquiring, settlement and dispute systems. Detection lagged by hours.

The context

A leading UK FinTech processes millions of card transactions a day across acquiring, settlement and disputes. Fraud signal lived in three separate systems and reconciled overnight, so detection lagged real-time by hours, long enough for organised fraud to clear before anyone saw the pattern.

At a glance

Sector
FinTech
Headline result
62%

What we did

The approach.

  1. 01

    Unified the event stream

    We built an event-driven data layer that brought acquiring, settlement and dispute events into a single real-time stream, replacing the overnight batch reconciliation.

  2. 02

    Scored transactions in-flight

    Owned-weights fraud models scored transactions as they happened, with an evaluation harness that let risk tune thresholds against labelled outcomes rather than guesswork.

  3. 03

    Made it auditable

    Every score carries a traceable explanation and audit trail, so disputes and regulators can see exactly why a transaction was flagged.

  4. 04

    Handed it back

    The client's own data team now owns the pipeline, the models and the eval harness, with runbooks and training transferred at close.

The outcome

What changed.

62%

fewer fraud incidents within 6 months

Real-time

scoring, down from hourly batches

100%

of flags fully auditable

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