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Who is Feedzai?
Feedzai is a global leader in AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention, delivering an end-to-end platform that protects consumers and banks across the entire customer lifecycle. Recognized by industry analysts for its identity, fraud, and anti-money laundering (AML) offerings, Feedzai empowers financial institutions to tailor risk strategies, from easily bringing their own models, setting up their own models via Feedzai, or leveraging Feedzai’s federated learning models from day 1. With the RiskOps platform, users gain unified access to real-time, large-scale data for maximum accuracy, agility, and performance.
Who is IBM?
IBM is a global technology and consulting corporation that offers a specialized portfolio of solutions for fraud prevention,1 targeting major financial institutions.2 The core products are IBM Safer Payments and IBM Trusteer,3, 4 spanning fraud prevention and digital identity protection solutions. Overall, IBM emphasizes high availability, an open data science environment that encourages customers to integrate their own models (“Bring your own model”), and proven enterprise-grade performance,3 positioning its offerings as robust tools for enhancing security and compliance.
Feature
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User Profiling
“Provides a differentiating automatic user segmentation recommendation and creation capability.”5
Buyers commented “on the ability to profile behaviors on multiple elements using three years of historical data.”6
Native Data Capabilities
Collects data related to behavioral biometrics and analytics, device and network characteristics, and malware patterns through its Digital Trust solution. Leveraging a federated learning approach, TrustScore's Feedzai IQ™ uses its community's fraud outcomes to provide an out-of-the-box, AI-powered risk score.
IBM's Trusteer Pinpoint Detect collects data linked to behavioral biometrics, device intelligence, and assesses network characteristics and threat intelligence.7
Model ingestion
Feedzai OpenML gives “build and import models in any language, using any library,” directly into the Feedzai platform.
IBM offers a “Bring Your Own Model” approach for customers. This is a highly open platform that supports importing and exporting models in portable formats (like PMML/Python).3
Productized ML Models
Has a strong capability for delivering productized and in-house models. Customers reported “in-house models were somewhat above their expectations.”8
IBM is tailored to ingest models, but productized, out-of-the-box ML models have been reported “as hard to administer and lack breadth.”8
Rules-Based Risk Scoring
Excels in rules-based risk scoring and alerting.8 “Rule authoring and versioning are ahead of the competition.” 9
The solution is a good fit for firms with experience in rule building, as configuring rules is described as “very complex”, and using “rule versioning is difficult.” 9
Transparency
Feedzai’s AI models ensure fair and transparent decisions by operating under the principles of the TRUST framework and using white-box explanations and bias mitigation tools.
IBM offers company-wide governance products, such as watsonx.governance,10 to ensure responsible, transparent, and explainable AI across various applications.
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Additional Resources
Footnotes
1 https://www.ibm.com/solutions/fraud-prevention
2 https://www.ibm.com/industries/banking-financial-markets
3 https://www.ibm.com/products/safer-payments
4 https://www.ibm.com/products/trusteer
5 https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-enterprise-fraud-management-q3-2021/RES176065
7 https://www.ibm.com/products/trusteer-pinpoint-detect
9 https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-enterprise-fraud-management-q3-2021/RES176065
10 https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-governance
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