FICO Falcon Platform for enterprise fraud management now available

FICO, a predictive analytics and decision management software company, has announced the availability of the FICO Falcon Platform for enterprise fraud management. The FICO Falcon Platform gives institutions and their customers real-time protection from fraud across multiple payment channels, products and services.

The FICO Falcon Platform puts the company’s FICO Falcon Fraud Manager technology at the heart of a modular, flexible approach to enterprise fraud protection. Smaller institutions can begin with a rules-based system for detecting transaction fraud in real time and managing suspected fraud cases. Because of the platform’s support for such open source technologies as Linux, startup infrastructure costs can be as little as 1/10th what it has traditionally taken to deploy FICO Falcon Fraud Manager.

“With the Falcon Platform, we believe we are offering businesses the most powerful rules-based solution for fraud detection, as well as the easiest way to move to full analytic protection across multiple transactional channels,” said TJ Horan, VP of fraud solutions for FICO. “The flexible approach makes the platform more affordable for smaller credit grantors, but it gives our customers an easy way to expand protection as their needs evolve.”

For larger credit grantors and current Falcon Fraud Manager clients, the FICO Falcon Platform can substantially reduce the cost of expanding portfolios or extending protection to new products or channels. A credit grantor can systematically add connected levels of protection by deploying fraud analytic modules specifically developed to detect fraud in targeted channels, including checking/ current accounts, e-payments, mobile payments and payment cards. FICO estimates the platform’s flexible architecture could reduce clients’ fraud protection costs by as much as 75%.

Most enterprises today rely on a collection of discrete point systems to protect their bottom line and their customers from fraud,” said Horan. “This is not only a costly approach, it leaves some channels and products less protected than others. At the same time, the ‘monolithic,’ one-size-fits-all enterprise fraud system has been rejected by the market. Banks and other credit grantors want to adopt a scalable, customer-centric approach to fraud detection that works across all portfolios within the enterprise. We’ve taken the market’s most advanced anti-fraud system and adapted it to this challenge.”

The platform’s fraud detection and case management capabilities can be extended with add-on software modules that further reduce the impact of fraud on customers. Many banks are now using FICO software to automatically contact customers on their mobile phone or preferred devices to resolve suspicious transactions instantly. FICO also offers solutions for stopping first-party* and third-party* application fraud as well as bust-out fraud*, using social link analysis. Data management extensions expand the system’s ability to accept and monitor data from outside systems in real time.

FICO recently integrated technology from 41st Parameter to improve the FICO Falcon Platform’s ability to detect card-not-present fraud**, and allow genuine transactions to go through without being blocked.

*First party fraud is committed by someone who applies for a loan, credit card or other account with no intention of paying for anything. Such a fraudster typically provides false information during the application so that he or she cannot be contacted. In third party fraud, the fraudster steals someone else's identity for the application. For bust out fraud, the fraudster opens an account and maintains good behaviour until overdraft limits are raised. The fraudster quickly makes use of the overdraft and then disappears. 

**Card-not-present fraud refers to transactions which are made without the card being physically there, such as with e-commerce.