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By Joe Kitos
Banks, payment processors and fintechs have long relied on Know Your Customer (KYC) processes to verify identity and assess the risk of doing business with the customer during onboarding, and on Know Your Business (KYB) processes to validate business legitimacy. But today, that’s no longer enough.
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By Joe Kitos
When it comes to real-time payments, fraud moves fast — but liquidity stress can move even faster. A fraud or cyberattack can quickly become a liquidity event when it disrupts settlement funds, triggers abnormal transaction flows or forces payment services offline. That is why banks, payment processors and instant payment networks need real-time visibility into transaction activity, settlement exposure and emerging operational risk.
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By Joe Kitos
INETCO has been named Best Online Fraud Detection & Cyber Security Software 2026 by Corporate Vision in the Canadian Business Awards. This recognition highlights the real world impact our customers are making to prevent payment fraud and strengthen cyber resiliency across global payment ecosystems.
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By Bijan Sanii
When it comes to fraud prevention, most of us know that small steps can make a big difference: use strong passwords and a password manager, turn on multifactor authentication, and so on. But for banks, fintechs and payment processors, those small steps are just the beginning.
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By Joe Kitos
From real-time payment (RTP) scams to account takeovers to card testing, Visa reports that 98% of merchants experienced one or more types of fraud in 2025. No wonder it has gone down in history as the year these crimes exploded in scope. So what does 2026 have in store? According to the INETCO Team, the coming months will see payment fraud evolve like never before — into something more autonomous and far harder for banks and payment processors to detect using traditional approaches.
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By Joe Kitos
The Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) has quickly become one of the most discussed (and feared) compliance frameworks in the payments industry. With stricter enforcement beginning October 1, 2025, merchants and acquirers around the globe are scrambling to understand how to stay within Visa’s tightening thresholds and avoid painful penalties.
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By Joe Kitos
At the recent Conversations Live with Stuart McNish panel on cybersecurity — part of the thoughtful public affairs dialogue series produced in partnership with the Vancouver Sun — industry leaders gathered to unpack the real-world risks shaping organizational resilience and national security. The event, held on Dec. 10, 2025, brought together experts from across the cybersecurity landscape to go beyond headlines and explore strategies for responding to evolving threats.
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By Joe Kitos
In a recent appearance on the CanadianSME Small Business Podcast, INETCO CEO and Founder Bijan Sanii shared strategic insights for Canadian companies pursuing global growth, particularly in fast-moving underserved markets where payment fraud and infrastructure challenges are rising. Here are the five most important takeaways from the conversation.
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By Joe Kitos
We’re proud to share that the INETCO BullzAI transaction firewall has been named among top innovators in the FRC Innovation List – November 2025, a showcase of technologies driving major advancements in financial risk and compliance. Read the full announcement from FRC (Finance, Risk and Compliance). This recognition highlights the growing need for real-time intelligent protection as payment ecosystems evolve and cyber threats accelerate.
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By Bijan Sanii
The Government of Canada’s launch of an Anti-Fraud Strategy and Financial Crimes Agency acknowledges a reality that banks, fintechs and payment processors already know: the scale, sophistication and speed of digital fraud are outpacing traditional defences. These are vital national commitments, to be sure, but they also underscore the need for companies, institutions and governments to evolve faster than the attacks they face. Fraud has become one of the defining challenges of our time.
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By INETCO
Fraudsters are getting smarter, using sophisticated AI-driven techniques to launch attacks at lightning speed. Many of these attacks run the risk of slipping past fraud prevention tools—until now.
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By INETCO
Fraudsters are getting smarter, using sophisticated AI-driven techniques to launch attacks at lightning speed. Many of these attacks run the risk of slipping past fraud prevention tools—until now.
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By INETCO
The growing scale and sophistication of AI-driven payment fraud and cyber-attacks is driving the need for stronger cyber-fraud resilience. But the ability to outsmart fraudsters, stay compliant and keep customers safe is only getting harder. INETCO BullzAI detects, prevents and shields from false positives, lost revenues and customer distrust with a modern approach to evaluating the risk of every transaction before it completes. Discover how INETCO helps deliver the payment security and reliability that all people deserve – every moment, every day.
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By INETCO
With EBT SNAP fraud on the rise, safeguarding our most vulnerable populations is a growing challenge across the U.S. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies to protect the integrity of EBT beneficiary cards and merchant acceptance. Learn tips and tricks related to sharing transaction data insights, detecting malicious EBT transactions with speed and accuracy, and implementing risk scoring and behavioral analysis without bias. Leave with new ideas to enhance your EBT fraud strategy efficiently and effectively--without taxing your team or your budgets.
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By INETCO
Imagine a world where every payment is secure, every transaction is protected and compliance keeps your customers safe. INETCO BullzAI protects all payments against emerging fraud, money laundering and cyber-attacks, without compromising the customer experience. Discover how to protect your financial institution or payment processor against attacks that other systems can’t detect.
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By INETCO
Interested in exploring how Mexico’s largest electronic payments processor consistently secures the end-to-end customer experience while processing more than 13 million credit and debit card transactions each day? We invite you to join Ander Murillo Zohn, Deputy Director of Big Data Technologies at E-Global, and Stacy Gorkoff, VP of Marketing and Channel Development at INETCO, for a 45-minute webinar as they discuss the secret to using real-time data to achieve the best customer experience possible.
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By INETCO
Is your ability to detect fraud lagging behind the fraudsters? Thinking real-time is essential to decreasing financial loss, reputational harm and customer friction. In this session, explore new tactics to detect and block suspicious transaction activity in milliseconds.
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By INETCO
Is your ability to harness massive volumes of payment transaction intelligence over multiple card rails, customer facing channels, and disparate data stores a challenge? INETCO Insight accelerates digital transformation with a real-time, 360-degree view of all card usage, channel performance and customer behavior to help identify new ways to acquire customers, deliver more value to existing ones, and enhance profitability through faster reporting, better device placement and targeted service offerings.
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By INETCO
On September 17th, 2019, INETCO Insight 7 was officially launched. Featuring a fraud configuration primed for payment environments, INETCO Insight 7 combines customer transaction data acquisition, configurable rules-based alerting and adaptive machine learning capabilities.
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By INETCO
With The Nilson Report projecting $34.66 billion in global fraud losses by 2022, it is clear that crime syndicates are investing heavily in finding new and more advanced ways of countering the controls organizations are constantly implementing. Financial institutions, retailers, card service providers and acquiring processors are struggling to detect suspicious payment transaction behavior and prevent payment fraud attacks before experiencing major financial loss and customer dissatisfaction.
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By INETCO
This whitepaper discusses the INETCO Insight transaction data platform. It reveals how the software's unique data streaming, decoding, semantic correlation and statistical analysis engines can be rapidly configured to monitor any application type - custom, packaged, or industry-specific. INETCO Insight produces a single rich transaction record for every transaction, containing business, application, infrastructure, and network performance information that can be sliced and diced instantly to serve the diverse needs of different members of the IT and business teams.
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By INETCO
While the ATM channel remains a strategic part of a healthy omni-channel banking ecosystem, it is continuously under critical analysis within many financial institutions. The big challenge lies in maintaining ATM fleets as a profitable delivery channel.
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By INETCO
Despite several recent high-profile attacks, ATM cash-out schemes that involve multiple attack vectors over a very large attack surface continue to happen. While traditional fraud system management tools will provide one layer of defense against cash-out attacks, common single point monitoring solutions still run a risk of being compromised.
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By INETCO
Real-time transaction data has become a fundamental part of managing self-service channels and guaranteeing every interaction completes the way the customer expects. This is why banks, retailers and payment processors all over the globe are investing in powerful end-to-end data acquisition, real-time alerting and open data streaming capabilities.
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INETCO® builds smart technology that makes real-time transaction data workable for customer journey insights, early warning fraud detection and operational performance - across all banking, retail and payment processing environments. Our real-time data platform thrives in self-service and omni-channel ecosystems where timely data collection, organization and visualization is challenging.
Our Products and Services:
- INETCO Insight® Real-time Transaction Data Platform: Specifically designed for the banking and payments industries, INETCO Insight® provides a real-time, end-to-end view into the performance of every customer transaction. Rich transaction data is captured from the network, with the option to forward decoded message fields to any application of choice. With the power to harness continuous transaction data streams, INETCO Insight customers gain a whole new level of agile performance monitoring and trusted data visualization that results in improved customer experiences, risk mitigation, channel revenue uplift and reduced operational costs.
- INETCO Analytics® On-demand Data Visualization and Analysis Software: INETCO Analytics® is an application that utilizes real-time transaction data, machine learning and predictive algorithms for analyzing customer engagement and channel profitability. It equips channel managers and data analysts with the intelligence and visual insights they need to better serve existing customers, acquire new ones, and enhance profitability through improved self-service device placement and catered service offerings.
INETCO’s growing Fortune 500 world-class customer base includes over 50 global companies that span the banking, ATM, retail and payment processing industries.