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Fraud detection in financial transactions

Real-time transaction monitoring where every decision has to be explainable to an auditor months later.

Financial market data on a screen

The problem

Transaction monitoring at scale creates two failures at once: too many false positives for a review team to work through, and a decision process nobody can explain when a regulator asks why a particular payment was held. Buying a model solves the first and worsens the second.

What we built

A monitoring layer that scores transactions in real time, with the reasoning behind each score retained and reviewable. Analysts see why a case surfaced, not merely that it did, and every judgement is reconstructable from the evidence that produced it.

  • Feature pipeline over existing payment infrastructure, inside the client tenancy
  • Scoring with retained explanations, written to an immutable audit store
  • Review queue prioritised by risk and reviewer capacity
  • Drift monitoring, with retraining gated on evaluation rather than schedule

Governance was the constraint, not accuracy. A model nobody can explain cannot go near a regulated payment flow, however good its numbers look.

Outcome

PLACEHOLDER — NQ TO SUPPLY VERIFIED OUTCOME DATA

Measured results, review-time reduction and false-positive movement will be published here once the client has approved the figures. Nothing is claimed until then.

Facing the same constraint?

Explainability requirements shape the architecture from the first sprint. If a regulator will ask why, that changes what gets built.