by Team Feedzai
2 minutes • RiskOps • January 1, 2025
Featurespace vs. Feedzai: A Comparative Analysis
Disclaimer: This content was created in Q3 2025 by Feedzai and is based on Feedzai’s independent analysis of publicly available information, industry reports, and our own expertise in financial crime prevention. While we aim for accurate and relevant insights, we did not conduct hands-on testing with the solution mentioned. The material is intended to inform and support organizations as they assess their own needs and evaluate technology partners. If you have feedback or wish to request an updated analysis, please contact us at product-marketing@feedzai.com.
Featurespace and Feedzai are industry-recognized players that provide a single, advanced AI and machine learning platform to help financial institutions and merchants fight fraud and financial crime in real time.
2025 AI Trends in Fraud and Financial Crime Prevention
Feedzai’s survey of 562 financial professionals shows the industry adjusting to new data responsibilities due to rapid AI adoption.
Who is Feedzai?
Founded in 2011,1 Feedzai is a leading fraud and financial crime prevention vendor that protects 1B consumers worldwide and processes $8B in payments every year. Through extensive research, innovative product development, and strategic acquisitions, the company has built the Feedzai RiskOps Platform. As a leading end-to-end AI-native solution for financial institutions, it brings together orchestration, identity verification, fraud prevention, and anti-money laundering (AML) capabilities into a single platform for a complete view of customer risk.
Who is Featurespace?
Featurespace, founded in 2008 in Cambridge, delivers AI-driven, real-time fraud prevention and AML solutions for financial services and gaming industries.2, 3, 4, 5
Through its ARIC™ Risk Hub platform, the institution specializes in adaptive behavioral analytics and automated deep behavioral networks. Featurespace protects 500 million consumers globally and processes over 100 billion payments each year.6 Acquired by Visa in December 2024,7 it is now integrated into Visa’s Risk and Identity Solutions unit.8
Feedzai vs. Featurespace: A Comparison of Capabilities
Feature
Feedzai
Featurespace
Core Offering
Account Monitoring, Account Opening, Scam Prevention, Fraud Prevention (Cards, Transfers, eWallets, Checks, ATO, Merchant Acquiring & New Account Fraud), Merchant Risk Monitoring, Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring, Watchlist Screening,
KYC, and Data Orchestration.
Scam Detection,9 Fraud Prevention (Cards,10 Application,11 Payment,12 Check,13 Merchant Acquiring14 & Gaming15), 3D Secure,16 Anti-Money Laundering,3 and White Labelling.17
User Profiling
Feedzai’s Segment-of-One profiling creates a holistic, individualized, real-time risk profile. It leverages monetary, non-monetary, behavioral, network, and device data, integrating insights across all channels at scale.
Adaptive Behavioral Analytics to analyze complex customer behavioral data across all channels.18
Native Data Capabilities
Threat intelligence, malware Inspector, network intelligence, behavioral analytics intelligence inputs via Digital Trust’s solution.18
Featurespace does not have native data capabilities.20
Global Data Sharing Capabilities
Feedzai IQ™ is “focused on sharing fraud intelligence through federated learning”,
“leveraging insights from hundreds of financial institutions” globally.
Participated in a 3-month pilot program to build the UK’s first data-sharing agreement, enabling Pay.UK’s “consortium” model to reduce APP fraud losses using its ARIC™ platform.21, 22, 23
Customer Segments
Retail & commercial banks, merchant acquirers, payment service providers, core banking providers, and government sectors.
Banks, payment processors, merchant acquirers, insurance companies, and gaming organizations.24
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Additional Resources
Footnotes
1 https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6cbmn62splyhq
2 https://www.featurespace.com/aric-risk-hub
3 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/aml
4 https://www.featurespace.com/customers
5 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/gaming-fraud-prevention
9 https://www.featurespace.com/scam-detect
10 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/card-fraud-prevention
11 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/application-fraud-prevention
12 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/payment-fraud-prevention
13 https://www.featurespace.com/check-fraud
14 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/merchant-acquiring-fraud-protection
15 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/gaming-fraud-prevention
16 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/3d-secure
17 https://www.featurespace.com/solutions/aric-white-label
18 https://www.about-fraud.com/providers/featurespace/
21 https://www.featurespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARIC-Risk-Hub-brochure-updated-Feb2021_1.pdf
22 https://www.wearepay.uk/fraud-prevention-overlay/
24 https://www.featurespace.com/
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