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PaymentsProtection.ai

Stop payment fraud, not business with AI-powered detection

Prevent increasingly sophisticated payment fraud without sacrificing transaction speed or customer experience. AI-powered protection blocks bad payments while letting legitimate ones sail through.

Fight fraud with PaymentsProtection.ai

Flag suspicious transactions before they  turn into significant losses or affect customers with adaptive AI technology, tailored risk controls, and expert-driven-support behind you.

Capabilities

Use rich signals to monitor fraud risk with PaymentsProtection.ai  

Detect, prevent, and manage fraud with an all-in-one platform that delivers real-time alerts, complete payment visibility, regulatory alignment, and actionable insights to help teams respond faster and reduce risk.

Timely fraud alerts for immediate protection

Intelligent real-time transaction monitoring detects threats and unusual activity as they occur, enabling teams to respond immediately to reduce exposure.  Suspicious transactions are automatically routed to analysts for review based on your defined risk controls.

Protect every channel, payment method, and fraud vector 

Use a single platform to monitor and analyze ACH, card, and digital wallet activity across all channels—phone, in-person, and online—and defend against major fraud threats like account takeovers and card testing. 

Implement stronger fraud processes and procedures 

Designed with compliance in mind, including Nacha, Visa’s Account Monitoring Program (VAMP), and PCI SFF certification, PaymentsProtection.ai helps organizations stay aligned with industry risk standards while reducing operational complexity. 

Smarter, faster risk management 

Adjust your risk strategy with timely insights into fraud trends, suspicious cases, return rates, limit usage, chargebacks, declines, regulatory thresholds, and more.  Detailed reporting combined with access to CSG risk experts helps you understand signals and take action with confidence.

Always-on performance

Built for scale, our platform delivers 99.999% uptime with ultra-low latency, processing 1000s of transactions per second to support large volumes in demanding environments. Backed by a predictable, subscription-based pricing model businesses can scale with confidence.

Benefits

AI-powered protection for every business

Deploy quickly

With minimal integration lift, flexible configuration, and minimal coding, get up and running in weeks, not months.

Configure to your business needs

Customize rules, thresholds, and workflows to match your organization’s risk tolerance and operational processes with ease.

Reduce fraud losses & false positives

Highly accurate fraud detection improves customer experience and profits by approving legitimate transactions and blocking fraud.

Get built-in expert support

Work with fraud specialists who help optimize detection strategies and get maximum platform value, without the hefty price tag.

Stay ahead of emerging threats

Keep your fraud defenses current with continuously learning technology, that evolves with the fraud landscape by adapting to new, emerging attack patterns.

Deployment flexibility

Scale fraud prevention without resource constraints

Managed service support

Lack resources or expertise to review and decision escalated transactions? Let our managed service team handle it delivering results based on set SLAs.

SaaS-base subscription model

Lower operational costs compared to in-house tech or custom implementations with highly attractive transaction-based pricing.

Payment processor agnostic

Not a customer of CSG Payments? No problem. Our fraud prevention platform ingests and analyzes payment data, even if you don’t process on our platform.

Level up your defenses against prominent types of payment fraud

Excessive payment fraud/refund fraud

Stop bad actors from submitting payments exceeding owed amounts and later requesting refunds which can damage processors’ and merchant networks’ credibility.

Merchant bust‑out fraud

Avoid chargebacks, inflated fees, and refund abuse from fraudulent merchants or impersonators rapidly processing a high volume of irregular transactions before disappearing.

Merchant credit events/defaults

Get the early warning signs that merchants may be unreliable or financially unstable, which increases the chance of fraudulent or disputed transactions.

Customer payment fraud

Prevent customers or imposters from initiating payments with fraudulent intent, followed by recalls or refund requests that redirect funds to illegitimate channels.

Account takeover (ATO) fraud

Block fraudsters from gaining unauthorized access to merchant or customer accounts via credential theft or phishing to enable fraudulent transactions.

Anti-money laundering (AML) violations

Mitigate compliance and regulatory risks caused by illicit funds flowing through legitimate payment channels to obscure their origin.

Card testing fraud

Protect against this common payment fraud type that tests stolen or generated card numbers with small transactions to identify valid accounts.

Other key transaction signals

PaymentsProtection.ai also monitors against velocity checks, limit testing, blacklist status, transaction anomalies and behavioral patterns.

Trusted to deliver real results

1:3
reduced rate of false positives
50-70%
drop in fraud-related losses
99.999%
availability for AI fraud protection
1000s
of transactions processed per second
25+
years of payment industry expertise
5-10 min
case review time reduced from 60 min
Industries

Tailored for you

AI-driven attackers are targeting businesses everywhere. PaymentsProtection.ai builds and adapts defenses to your needs so your business stays protected.

Healthcare & Insurance

Sensitive data makes the healthcare and insurance industries a target for fraud. Stop stolen cards, account takeovers, and unlawful chargebacks with AI  defenses.

Small & medium-sized businesses

Spend more time growing ecommerce sales, not fighting fast-moving fraud. Our managed service simplifies monitoring and compliance for smaller online retailers.

Independent software vendors

Safeguard your software from payment fraud. Turn merchant protection into a revenue-generating, value-added service by sharing costs with with your customer base.

Property management

High-value rent payments and competitive markets make you a target. Prevent stolen card use, ACH fraud, identity theft, and overpayment scams with a tool built for your industry.

Non-profits

Donors give year-round through events, your website, and corporate programs. Protect these transactions with real-time fraud monitoring and keep every dollar going to worthy causes - not fraudsters.

Education

Student financial aid records and stored card details are often left unprotected when siloed payment systems weaken school fraud defenses. Secure payment flows with AI-powered fraud protection.

Utilities

Essential services for water, trash, electricity, cable & fiber seem scam-proof but account takeovers, refund abuse, and card testing occurs. Block risky activity with smart technology before it affects subscribers.

Awards

Recognized for excellence

Fintech Breakthrough Awards: Payment Enablement Platform of the Year, 2026

Fintech Breakthrough Awards: Payment Enablement Platform of the Year, 2026

CSG Forte's Payment Enablement Platform of the Year award validates our leadership in delivering faster, more reliable payment solutions.

Forrester Included in for The Merchant Payment Providers Landscape, Q4 2025, 2025

Forrester Included in for The Merchant Payment Providers Landscape, Q4 2025, 2025

CSG Forte's inclusion in Forrester's Merchant Payment Providers Landscape confirms our competitive position in the payments industry.

QKS Spark Matrix: Merchant Payment Provider, Q4, 2025

QKS Spark Matrix: Merchant Payment Provider, Q4, 2025

CSG Forte named Strong Contender for Merchant Payment Provider

2024 PayTech Award

2024 PayTech Award

Top Innovation in Payments

 Juniper Future Digital Awards: Omnichannel Payments Platform

Juniper Future Digital Awards: Omnichannel Payments Platform

CSG Forte awarded Omnichannel Payments Platform at the 2024 Juniper Future Digital Awards

Juniper Future Digital Awards: Recurring Payment Platform of the Year

Juniper Future Digital Awards: Recurring Payment Platform of the Year

CSG Forte awarded Recurring Payment Innovation at the 2024 Juniper Future Digital Awards

Ready to protect your business from payment fraud?

Let’s talk about how PaymentsProtection.ai can safeguard your business while keeping every customers transaction seamless.

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