Visa Completes Acquisition of Featurespace
19 Diciembre 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Clients around the world will experience
superior fraud detection and risk-scoring solutions
Visa (NYSE: V) today announced it has completed its acquisition
of Featurespace, a developer of real-time artificial intelligence
(AI) payments protection technology that prevents and mitigates
payments fraud and financial crime risks. This will bolster Visa’s
fraud protection capabilities and enhance security for its
customers and consumers worldwide.
Visa will add Featurespace’s capabilities into its range of
fraud prevention and risk-scoring offerings. By combining the two
companies’ highly complementary products and tools, customers will
have access to enhanced fraud protection services to help keep
their businesses safe and secure, including real-time detection of
sophisticated fraud attacks, without adding friction to the user
experience.
Antony Cahill, President, Value-Added Services at Visa, said:
“We are thrilled to welcome Featurespace to Visa. Both our
companies have been at the forefront of using AI to solve
longstanding challenges and pain points in the payments industry.
Together, we will offer a valuable combination of cutting-edge
technology and industry expertise to help our clients continue to
grow amidst an increasingly complex threat landscape.”
Over the coming months, Featurespace’s product portfolio will be
incorporated into Visa’s existing offering, expanding the available
range of fraud prevention solutions and use cases. The Featurespace
and Visa teams will bring together their knowledge, modelling
methodologies and tools to further enhance the joint offering.
Dave Excell, Founder of Featurespace, added: “We developed our
innovations to help crack even the most complex fraud cases. As
part of Visa, we will be able to set a new standard in AI-powered
fraud prevention and integrate our solutions into a series of
products and services that will help make the world a safer place
to transact.”
The Featurespace business will become part of Visa’s Risk and
Identity Solutions business unit.
About Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments,
facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial
institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries
and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the
most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network,
enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We
believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift
everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of
money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.
About Featurespace
Featurespace is a global, AI-native transaction monitoring
company that helps to prevent fraud and financial crime. Using
artificial intelligence, it analyses data in real time to identify
and stop existing and new forms of fraud and financial crime.
Delivering on its mission to make the world a safer place to
transact, Featurespace works with many of the world’s largest banks
and financial institutions, protecting 500 million consumers
globally and safely processing over 100 billion payment events each
year.
Over 100,000 businesses put their trust in Featurespace’s
technology including HSBC, NatWest, TSYS, Worldpay, Danske Bank,
Akbank and Edenred. Founded in 2008, and headquartered in
Cambridge, UK, Featurespace has more than 400 team members,
operating globally from six locations.
Learn more at featurespace.com.
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Fletcher Cook, +1 650-432-2990, press@visa.com
Mark Hooper, +44 7795 5336, europeanmedia@visa.com
Kendra Rogers, +44 1223 345940,
kendra.rogers@featurespace.co.uk
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