The authorisation window sets the number the filings compete on. One payment design reports under 200 milliseconds using a tree-based scorer plus a layer watching behaviour over short, medium and long horizons. Another reports under 50 milliseconds by running an autoencoder and a clustering check on devices close to the bank.
The largest sums bought the authenticated session, where the patents are thinnest
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Visa agreed in August 2026 to buy BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, with completion expected by the end of its 2027 fiscal second quarter. BioCatch scores keystrokes and touch gestures continuously on 1.8 billion devices across roughly 350 banks, and the stated purpose is to catch scams and account takeover before a payment is reached. The deal follows Visa's $946 million purchase of Featurespace, a behavioural analytics firm.
Strategy
Company output is growing, and the academic tail is growing faster
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Patent publications in the record ran 105 in 2021 and about 730 in the ten months to 30 October 2026, with 2026 a partial year. Companies still publish the most in every year: 77 in 2021, 257 in 2025, 308 in 2026. What changed is the rest of the field.
Research
Four stages appear in every area
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Read the filings as one pipeline and the areas line up. Signals are fused, a model scores, the score maps to an action, the action is recorded, and a monitor watches for the model going stale. What differs between areas is the first box and the third. Insurance adds a payout decision to the score. Identity verification turns the score into a choice of which check to run. Toll and on-chain work turn it into a physical or contractual block, which is a harder action than a flag and a much harder thing to reverse.
Market
Where results are published, the gain lands in false positives first
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Bank of Ireland is the one institution in this record with a measured outcome. Since deploying Featurespace's real-time platform in 2024 it reports a 25 percent fall in customer payment fraud losses, a 30 percent fall in attempted fraud, an 87.1 percent fall in false positives and an 85 percent fall in alert volumes, with case handling time halved. Celent reviewed the programme and describes the same picture as a shift from batch review to real-time decisioning.
Strategy
The operating filings sit with about a dozen institutions
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The geographic split is blunt. Chinese companies hold 435 patent documents and US companies 372, and those two groups contain the card networks, processors, banks and scoring vendors. Indian companies hold 39, against 410 from Indian individuals and 345 from Indian academics.
Research
Three model families recur, and the newest filings fuse them
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The default is a supervised classifier for known schemes paired with an anomaly or reconstruction component for new ones, on the reasoning that a rule can only catch what someone wrote down in advance. Relational models score an entity by its neighbours and have become the second standard, applied to account graphs and identity graphs joined across institutions. Sequence models handle anything that unfolds over time.
Market
Supervisors now write the data-sharing arrangement into the rule
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India's insurance regulator issued a fraud framework taking effect 1 April 2026 that requires a board-approved anti-fraud policy, a dedicated monitoring committee, and mandatory participation in the Insurance Information Bureau's fraud monitoring technology framework and its caution repository of blacklisted parties. The repository uses a unique identifier to follow a policyholder across insurers, and it is a condition of holding a licence rather than a product choice. A public insurance registry that could attach a score to a policyholder is under development, which extends the same logic into underwriting.