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ACI Proactive Risk Manager


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ACI Proactive Risk Manager

Solution description:

ACI Proactive Risk Manager is an intelligent transaction monitoring tool that detects and alerts fraud and suspicious account and transaction activity, while facilitating effective counter measures.

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Contact information

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Andy Brown

Phone:

800-445-4998

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ACI Proactive Risk Manager is a risk management solution that can recognize existing patterns of cardholder, account and merchant fraud activity as well as react appropriately to new patterns of fraud.

ACI Proactive Risk Manager offers modules that can detect credit card, debit card, private label card, merchant and money laundering fraud.

ACI Proactive Risk Manager Solutions:

  • Card Issuing Fraud Detection - Monitors fraudulent use of credit, debit and private label cards.
  • Account Fraud Detection - Detects suspicious transactions across the enterprise.
  • Merchant Acquiring Fraud Detection - Protects the merchant acquirer from fraudulent merchants or collusive merchant activity.
  • Anti-Money Laundering - Detects unusual transactions and sophisticated laundering schemes according to government and industry mandates.
  • Enterprise Risk - By monitoring account activity across all lines of business, users can detect more fraudulent activity in a shorter amount of time, minimizing losses and helping to preserve the customer relationship.

Functional description

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Functions available in modular components:

  • Analysis & Review - Flexible rules engine, client interface, alert screens, workflow, working transaction and audit history, operations management.
  • Scoring Engine - Uses custom neural network technology to detect unusual transaction activity.
  • Proactive Risk Manager Interface - Interface between the authorization and/or core banking system.
  • Real Time Risk Management - In-line scoring with the authorization to stop the first incidence of suspicious activity.
  • Automated Case Management - Automates investigation process for marked fraud or suspicious activity.

Competitive advantage

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ACI Proactive Risk Manager has allowed many customers to reduce their fraud losses by 30-50% over alternative fraud detection systems. ACI's proven implementation methodology provides a low risk solution that addresses new government mandates and can begin to detect fraud in as little as 12 weeks. Most customers have been able to cost justify the system in less than one year.

Key Differentiators:

  • Proven Solution from an industry leader
  • Fast start implementation possible in 3-4 months
  • Customized neural network model
  • Real-time risk management - fraud prevention vs. detection
  • Flexible user-friendly in-house rules management
  • Scalability - a fit for all institutions
  • ROI typically less than 12 months
  • Monitor risk across the enterprise

Business problem

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Not only is fraud increasing, but the types of fraud also have become more sophisticated and complex. ACI Proactive Risk Manager addresses the challenge financial institutions, retailers and processors face to employ timely monitoring and fraud detection. From flexible user-defined rules to powerful neural network technology, the solution cost effectively reduces losses and limits an organization's risk exposure.

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Allows organizations to react quickly to emerging suspicious activity by using rules-based strategies matched against a set of user-defined profiles.

Provides early warning of suspect activity with powerful and accurate neural network models, reducing fraud and limiting the impact on cardholders, merchants and accounts in good standing.

Captures and maintains statistical data on queue status, reviewer and model performance to provide valuable management information.

Easily integrates with existing payments environment.

Learn more about how IBM and ACI Worldwide help toimprove speed and efficiency in payments fraud management.

Return on investment

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Using ACI Proactive Risk Manager, organizations have experienced significant reductions in fraud losses. In many cases, users recovered the cost of software, hardware and personnel resources in less than one year.

One of the largest US card issuing institutions reduced its total fraud by 40% in the first three months of using Proactive Risk Manager and saved nearly US$2 million dollars during that time.

A large Australian issuer has experienced over US$21 million in fraud savings in each of the past two years of using Proactive Risk Manager.

Other customers have satisfied regulator concerns with meeting AML legislation, there by avoiding significant financial penalties.


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Target industries

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Banking
   Banking - Other
Computer Services
   Outsourcing

Solution areas

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Financial Services/Banking
   Automated Solutions
      ATMs
      Kiosks
      Point of Sales
   Branch Transformation
   Internet Banking
   Operations & Processing
   Risk management & compliance
Cross industry
   Business Intelligence
      Fraud Management
   Document Management
      Case Management
   e-Business/e-Commerce
      Payments

Countries/regions in which this solution is distributed

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Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R. of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macao S.A.R. of China, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States of, Mongolia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Holy See (Vatican City State), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Moldova, Republic of, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Antarctica, French Southern Territories, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Maldives, Nauru, Niue, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Solomon Islands

Languages in which this solution is distributed

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English

Customer size

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Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)

Ready for the euro?   Yes

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Software and related services
AIX 5.3
  IBM System p (pSeries)
Windows 2000 Server (inclusive)
  IBM System x (xSeries)
z/OS 1.8
  IBM System z (Mainframe)
z/OS 1.9
  IBM System z (Mainframe)

IBM Middleware

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Information Management
   IBM DB2 Universal Database for z/OS
Tivoli
   IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
   IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
   IBM Tivoli Monitoring
   IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
WebSphere
   IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
   IBM WebSphere MQ

Services

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Application Enabling Services
Consulting
Custom Systems Integration Services
e-business Services
Education & Training
Geographic Specific
Hardware & Software Support Services
Managed Services: Application Hosting
Managed Services: Facilities Hosting
Managed Services: Managed Hosting
Network Outsourcing Services
Product Support Services
Professional Services
Services: Application Implementation
Services: Custom Application Development
Services: Integration
Services: Outsourcing
Strategic OutSourcing


Date last modified:    Aug 10, 2009


Contact information

Andy Brown
800-445-4998

Company

ACI Worldwide
6060 Coventry Drive
Elkhorn, NE 68022
United States

402-390-7600

Partner level: Premier


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