Cambio Partners
Research NoteJuly 2026
Module 03Continuous loop — every payment, every event
Transactionintelligence
The identity checked out. The device checks out. Is the money moving normally? Post-onboarding monitoring is where most fraud value is actually lost — and caught.
Payment anomaly detection
Velocity, value, counterparty, and channel patterns scored against the customer's own behavioural baseline in real time. Adaptive models, not static rules — each customer is their own control group.
AML transaction monitoring
Structuring, layering, mule-network detection, suspicious activity reporting. A regulatory obligation with teeth — $6.6bn of KYC-related fines paid globally in 2023 alone.
First-party fraud detection
The hardest problem: a real person, correctly verified, acting in bad faith — bust-out, chargeback abuse, dispute manipulation. US losses exceed $100bn a year. Only solvable with cross-institution data: the abuser looks clean at any single firm.
Account takeover signals
Profile changes, new payee creation, P2P enrollment, credential resets — the events that precede money leaving. Triggers step-up re-verification back through Module 01: the loop closes.
Who plays here
Featurespace (Visa), NICE Actimize, Feedzai, Socure (via Effectiv), ComplyAdvantage (AML), Sift, Signifyd · Bank-internal systems remain significant incumbents