Fraud Intelligence for Payment Orchestrators

The fraud layer built for orchestrators. Your gateway. Your merchants. Your downstream partners. Or all three.

Payment orchestrators sit at the centre of the payments stack, routing transactions across acquirers, PSPs, and processors. One integration with Fraudio and you can protect your own transaction flow, extend fraud tooling to every merchant on your platform as a value-add, or partner with PSPs, payfacs, and acquirers who use your gateway — turning fraud intelligence from a cost centre into a line of differentiation and revenue.

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8x
Proven ROI
2B+
Transactions / Month
188
Countries
Days
Typical go-live

Global • Local deployments

Three ways to deploy Fraudio

Use it on your own gateway traffic. Offer it to your merchants as a value-add. Or partner as a channel to serve PSPs, payfacs, and acquirers on your platform. The same detection core and the same integration power all three paths.

Mode A

Protect your own gateway traffic

Real-time authorisation scoring, AML, and fraud detection across every transaction you orchestrate. Replaces or complements in-house or legacy fraud tooling, and gives you a single view of risk across every acquirer route, every payment method, and every geography.

Economics.

Lower fraud losses, fewer scheme fines, and better fraud tooling than the in-house or vendor stack it replaces. Because Fraudio sees traffic across your full routing table, detection is sharper than any single-acquirer model.

Mode B

Offer Fraudio to your merchants as a value-add

Each merchant that opts in is spun up as its own tenant under your orchestrator account. Their team works in an isolated workspace with their own rules and investigation queue. You keep central oversight and take the fraud layer to market as part of your platform proposition.

Economics.

Premium pricing on merchants who take the fraud product. Fraud tooling becomes a revenue line and a retention lever, not a cost line, and it differentiates your platform against commodity orchestrators.

Mode C

Channel partner for PSPs, payfacs & acquirers

Offer Fraudio as embedded fraud intelligence to every PSP, payfac, or acquirer that routes through your gateway. Each partner gets their own tenant and can extend coverage to their own merchant portfolio underneath. You become the fraud distribution layer for your entire ecosystem.

Economics.

Revenue share on every partner that adopts. The orchestrator earns on fraud tooling without building it, and downstream partners get enterprise-grade detection without a separate integration. Fraud becomes a platform revenue line that scales with transaction volume.

Mode A + B + C

All three at once. Net-positive on fraud.

Most of the economic leverage happens here. You run Fraudio on your own gateway traffic, offer it as a premium capability to merchants who want their own fraud environment, and distribute it as embedded intelligence to PSPs, payfacs, and acquirers on your platform. One contract, one integration, three value streams.

Economics.

Savings on your own traffic + premium revenue on opted-in merchants + channel revenue from downstream partners. Fraud monitoring stops being a cost centre and turns accretive to the orchestrator P&L.

The orchestrator angle

Orchestrator fraud is a routing story, and transactions are how it plays out. Card fraud, transaction laundering, chargeback abuse, and AML violations all flow through the orchestrator's gateway before reaching the acquirer. Fraudio gives you a holistic view of every transaction across every route — cross-acquirer patterns, merchant-level signals, and the full transaction stream — so the same platform covers the exposures that matter to your downstream partners and the ones that matter to you.

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Cross-acquirer pattern detection

Transactions routed through multiple acquirers are correlated in real time. Fraud patterns that are invisible within a single acquirer's view surface immediately when seen across the orchestrator's full routing table.

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Transaction laundering & MCC manipulation

Shell-merchant rerouting, miscoded MCCs, and aggregator abuse are detected from volume, pattern, and counterparty signals across the orchestrator's entire merchant base, not from a single acquirer's partial view.

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Chargeback & scheme-threshold protection

Early warning on merchants heading toward VAMP / VDMP / EDMP thresholds, before scheme fines from the acquirer and sponsor-bank exposure crystallise. The orchestrator sees the aggregate view first.

Real-time authorisation scoring

Every auth scored in milliseconds with rules configurable per merchant, per MCC, per channel, per acquirer route — without compromising approval rates.

Orchestrator Use Case

Where orchestrators are exposed today

Orchestrators route transactions across multiple acquirers and geographies, often for merchants with thin histories. The acquirers and schemes hold you accountable for the traffic you send them. Losses, laundering, and chargeback abuse surface at the merchant level but the orchestrator wears the consequence when thresholds are breached downstream.

Cross-route fraud visibility

A merchant splitting volume across three acquirers may stay below each acquirer's threshold while exceeding scheme limits in aggregate. The orchestrator is the only entity that sees the full picture.

Merchant risk scoring

Every merchant gets an entity-level risk score based on transaction behaviour, peer-group analysis, and network-wide intelligence — not just at onboarding, but continuously.

Cardholder vs merchant separation

CNP cardholder fraud and merchant-side fraud run through independent models and separate alert streams, so each risk type gets the right treatment.

Worth considering

Centralised AI vs siloed models. The gap widens with every merchant and every route.

Most fraud vendors train on a single institution's data. For orchestrators routing across multiple acquirers and geographies, that architecture has real consequences.

Siloed model
Each acquirer's model trains only on their own merchants. A new merchant on a new route starts with no fraud signal at all.
A fraud scheme hitting one acquirer route stays invisible to the others until it moves there too.
Accuracy improves slowly. Years of data are needed before each route's model is meaningfully useful.
Every route or geography is a separate model to tune and maintain. Operational overhead grows with every acquirer added.
Cross-route patterns like split-volume laundering and MCC manipulation require training data that no single acquirer has.
A siloed model's ceiling is one route's data. The orchestrator's full view goes unused.
Fraudio · Centralised AI
Every orchestrator, acquirer, and issuer contributes to and benefits from a shared AI network. New merchants are protected from transaction one.
A pattern detected on any connected institution raises the risk signal for all. Collective defence across the full merchant base.
Accuracy is high from day one. Pre-trained on billions of transactions across acquirers, issuers, and orchestrators globally. No ramp-up period.
One platform, one integration. All merchants and all routes managed from one control plane. Adding routes adds no operational overhead.
Cross-route fraud patterns are learned across the entire network. Every new merchant benefits immediately from what the network has already seen.
The centralised approach scales. The more institutions connect to Fraudio, the sharper the AI becomes for everyone. Fraudio's ceiling is the network's.

Already in the ecosystem

Orchestrators and platforms that run on Fraudio. Fraudio already runs inside platforms that process and route transactions at scale. The channel-partner model, multi-tenancy architecture, and go-live process are well established for orchestrators, payfacs, and acquirers of every size.

🌍 Global
Silverflow
Cloud-native acquiring & orchestration · EU / Global

Silverflow is a next-generation cloud-native acquiring platform used by modern orchestrators, payfacs, and acquirers. Fraudio runs as a channel partner inside Silverflow, delivering fraud intelligence across every merchant on the platform from day one.

OrchestrationAcquiringChannel Partner
🇬🇧 UK & EU
Cashflows
Payment platform & acquirer · UK & EU

Cashflows is a UK & EU payment facilitator and acquirer serving ISVs, payfacs and merchants across the region. Fraudio operates inside Cashflows' platform as a channel partner, delivering real-time fraud detection across the full portfolio.

PayfacAcquiringChannel Partner
🇸🇬 SEA
Fazz Financial
Payment platform & acquiring · Singapore & Indonesia

Fazz is Southeast Asia's leading payment facilitation and acquiring platform. Fraudio runs as a channel partner inside Fazz, with real-time fraud detection and AML across every merchant in the book.

PayfacAcquiringSEA
🇲🇽 LATAM
PMI Americas
Payments platform · Mexico & LATAM

PMI is one of the largest payment facilitators in Mexico with coverage across Latin America, running a full stack from payment gateway and POS terminals to high-volume collections and payment orchestration. Fraudio delivers merchant-level fraud detection and AML across the portfolio.

PayfacOrchestrationLATAM
🇸🇦 MENA
PayTabs
Payment orchestration & infra · Saudi Arabia & MENA

PayTabs is a Saudi-built payment orchestration and infrastructure provider powering e-commerce, enterprises, fintechs, and governments across the Middle East and North Africa, with products spanning orchestration, SoftPOS, acquiring switch, and card issuance. Fraudio integrates as a channel partner, extending AI-driven fraud detection and AML.

OrchestrationChannel PartnerMENA
🇿🇦 Africa
Enza
Payment platform · South Africa & pan-Africa

Enza is a pan-African payments platform covering acquirer processing, in-person acceptance, the enza Conductor online gateway, ATM acquiring, and AI-driven fraud. Fraudio supports Enza across the full merchant estate.

PayfacAcquirerAfrica

How the channel partnership works for orchestrators: the orchestrator integrates once with Fraudio. Every merchant underneath is covered by the same integration, and every PSP, payfac, or acquirer routing through the gateway can be provisioned as a partner tenant. No extra integration on the downstream partner's side, no engineering lift per account.

One integration. Full ecosystem covered.

What's available

Four capabilities. One integration. Every merchant and every downstream partner covered. Each capability is delivered through a single platform integration. The orchestrator integrates once and every merchant or partner can use any combination from day one.

Payments

Payment Fraud Detection

Real-time authorisation scoring in milliseconds. 0–1 risk score: approve, step-up, or decline. Supervised AI catches known fraud; unsupervised AI catches novel and emerging patterns across the network. For orchestrators: covers CNP fraud, card testing, BIN attacks, and fraud patterns across multi-acquirer routing. Rules configurable per merchant, per MCC, per channel, per route.

Real-time scoringDynamic 3DSApproval upliftNetwork-effect AI
↓ PFD One-Pager
Merchant Risk

Merchant Monitoring & Transaction Laundering Detection

Entity-level monitoring for every merchant routed through the gateway. Detects transaction laundering, MCC manipulation, MID stacking, and chargeback abuse before scheme thresholds are breached and acquirers take action. For orchestrators: continuous risk scoring across every route, not just at onboarding. Early warning ahead of VAMP / VDMP / EDMP exposure.

Merchant scoringLaundering detectionChargeback thresholdsPeer-group signals
↓ MIF Detection One-Pager
Compliance

Anti-Money Laundering

AI-driven AML combining custom rules, link analysis, and behavioural modelling. Case management, SAR-ready exports, sanctions / PEP screening. PSD2, GDPR and EBA-aligned. For orchestrators: covers AML obligations across the full merchant estate and downstream partners, no separate AML vendor or integration required.

Link analysisCase managementSanctions / PEPSAR exports
↓ AML One-Pager
Platform

Rules Engine + Case Management

No-code LLM-powered rules editor. Deploy rules in seconds, backtest on historical data, promote to live. Full case management with SLA workflows and audit trails, configurable per orchestrator, per partner, and per merchant. Your risk team manages rules centrally. Downstream partners and merchants self-manage their own rules inside isolated tenants.

No-code rulesBacktestingAudit trailSLA workflows

Platform architecture

Multi-tenancy that mirrors how orchestrators operate. Orchestrators route traffic for merchants across multiple acquirers, geographies, and payment methods under one roof. Fraudio's orchestration layer is built for exactly that shape. The orchestrator is the parent tenant, and every downstream partner or merchant that takes the fraud value-add sits as its own subtenant underneath.

How it fits

The orchestrator owns the platform. Each opted-in merchant or downstream partner owns its own fraud environment. Fraudio integrates at the orchestrator level. Any merchant or partner can be provisioned as a subtenant in hours, with isolated rules, isolated investigation queues, and isolated data. Merchants and partners that don't opt in are still fully covered by the orchestrator's own monitoring.

Centralised policy control

The orchestrator decides what to enforce centrally. Baseline AML rules, scheme-threshold protection, or mandatory controls can be set once and inherited by every tenant automatically, while each merchant or partner still configures their own on top.

New tenant live in hours via API

Subtenant provisioning is fully API-first. The orchestrator onboards a merchant or partner to the fraud platform in a single API call: account, users, keys. No manual steps.

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Isolated tenants, full orchestrator oversight

Every tenant's data is fully isolated. The orchestrator has complete visibility across the full ecosystem from one console, with immutable audit trails for scheme, acquirer, or regulator review.

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Optional policy inheritance for compliance

Orchestrators can push baseline fraud, AML, or scheme-threshold rules across every tenant automatically. Merchants and partners inherit and enforce without manual work, and configure their own rules within those bounds.

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Economics that work three ways

On your own traffic: replace legacy monitoring and lower fraud losses. On merchants who opt in: premium pricing and stickier relationships. On downstream partners: channel revenue that scales with the ecosystem. Combined, fraud tooling becomes an accretive P&L line.

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Orchestrator (Parent Tenant)
Optional: baseline AML · scheme-threshold rules · compliance policies
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PSP / Payfac / Acquirer Partner A (channel partner)
Own tenant · own merchant sub-tenants · inherits orchestrator baseline
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PSP / Payfac / Acquirer Partner B (channel partner)
Own rules · own AML config · extends to own merchants
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Direct Merchant A (value-add opted-in)
Own rules · own investigation queue · self-serve dashboard
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Direct Merchant B (value-add opted-in)
Own rules · own AML config · inherits orchestrator baseline
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Core Gateway Traffic
Orchestrator-managed · MCC controls · entity-level scoring · all routes covered

✓ All tenants isolated · ✓ Orchestrator has full visibility · ✓ Immutable audit trail · ✓ Partners and merchants self-manage their own tenants

In practice

What the results look like when it's working.

“Fraudio enables us to detect fraudulent merchants and money laundering, ensuring the safety of our clients against fraud in payments. This has been extremely helpful to our growth by providing us the ability to focus our efforts in a much more accurate manner.”

Makis Antypas, CIO, Viva Wallet

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8x
Return on Investment
600%
Fraud Team Efficiency
3 weeks
earlier than previous vendor
7x
Txn Growth, Same Team

Further reading

Material for going deeper.

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Platform Overview

How Fraudio's patented centralised AI works and why the architecture matters for an orchestrator managing merchants and partners at scale.

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Payment Fraud Detection

Real-time authorisation scoring, dynamic 3DS, the rules engine, and how the network effect works in practice for orchestrators.

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Merchant Initiated Fraud

Merchant-side fraud, transaction laundering, MID stacking, and chargeback thresholds, caught early across every route.

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Anti-Money Laundering

AML in depth: link analysis, case management, PEP & sanctions, and SAR-ready exports for orchestrators and their partners.

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Let's talk.

We'll walk you through exactly how this looks for your orchestration platform. 30 minutes with someone from the team. We'll map this to your own gateway traffic, to a value-add proposition for your merchants, to a channel-partner model for your downstream PSPs, payfacs, and acquirers — or to all three — and show you what go-live, multi-tenancy, and the economics actually look like for your setup.

No slides-only pitch, no commitment.

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