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Perspectives on fraud, payments, and risk — from people building them.

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Fraud Strategy

The new economics of fraud: why prevention is now a growth lever

When fraud is treated as a cost center, it competes against revenue. The leading operators flip that model — and unlock measurable lift in both authorization and retention.

June 20268 min read
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Payment Optimization

Smart routing in 2026: when the simplest cascade still wins

Routing strategy has become a frontier of payment performance. We unpack the patterns that consistently deliver auth-rate lift.

June 20266 min read

Data & Analytics

Building the executive fraud dashboard your CFO actually reads

A practical framework for the five metrics that align fraud, finance, and product around the same definition of risk.

May 20265 min read

Chargebacks

Visa CE3.0 and the second life of compelling evidence

What CE3.0 actually changes, where the win-rate uplift is realistic, and the operational moves required to capture it.

May 20267 min read

AI in Fraud Detection

Beyond the model: why production fraud ML lives or dies on data contracts

The hardest part of deploying fraud ML is rarely the algorithm — it is the discipline around features, labels, and feedback loops.

April 20269 min read

Compliance

Inside VAMP: what Visa’s new program means for high-risk merchants

The unified acquirer monitoring program is reshaping risk thresholds. A guide to staying compliant without sacrificing growth.

April 20266 min read

Device Intelligence

Device signals in 2026: still the highest-leverage fraud input

Why device intelligence remains underused in many programs, and how to integrate it without breaking the customer experience.

March 20265 min read

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