Feedzai

Feedzai is a financial crime prevention software vendor founded in 2011 in Coimbra, Portugal by Nuno Sebastiao, Pedro Bizarro and Paulo Marques, with offices in Lisbon, Porto, London, New York and Atlanta. It sells machine learning systems that banks, acquirers and payment processors use to detect card and payment fraud, scams, account takeover and money laundering without adding friction for legitimate customers.

The RiskOps platform covers the full customer lifecycle: orchestration and identity checks at account opening, behavioural biometrics, real-time transaction fraud scoring, AML transaction monitoring and watchlist screening, and Feedzai IQ network intelligence built on consortium data. The company states it processes 120 billion events and secures about USD 9 trillion of payments a year. Named customers include Mastercard, Fiserv, CaixaBank, Raiffeisen Bank International, Banco BV, Jack Henry, Cuscal and PayU. The European Central Bank selected Feedzai, alongside Capgemini, for fraud and risk management work on the digital euro.

1. RiskOps platform: one risk engine and case manager covering onboarding, payment fraud and AML.

2. Real-time scoring: transactions across card, instant payment and wire channels are scored before authorisation.

3. AML suite: transaction monitoring plus sanctions and watchlist screening on the same data pipeline.

4. Feedzai IQ: consortium-derived network intelligence used to score payees, devices and mule accounts.

5. Identity solutions: document verification and behavioural biometrics for account opening and account takeover.

6. Operating scale: the company reports 120 billion events processed and about USD 9 trillion in payments secured yearly.