Real-Time Fraud Detection System

Project overview
A payments provider needed to catch fraudulent transactions without slowing down legitimate ones. We built a real-time scoring service that sits inside the payment flow.
Client challenges & requirements
Rule-based checks were blocking too many good customers while still missing coordinated fraud, and every added rule slowed the checkout.
- Decisions needed in under 100 milliseconds per transaction
- High false-positive rate was costing genuine sales
- Fraud patterns changed faster than rules could be updated
Our solution
We delivered a streaming feature pipeline, an ensemble fraud model with explainable outputs, and a review console for the risk team. Models are retrained on confirmed cases every week.
83%
Fraud caught before settlement
45%
Fewer false positives
80ms
Decision latency
1.2M
Transactions scored daily