Embedded Finance Reframes Fraud Prevention Upstream

Industry reports and vendors warn that embedded payments, projected to exceed $7 trillion by 2026, are expanding fraud risk as transactions move into platform workflows. The article details how APIs, instant payments, and distributed ownership cause legacy, rule-based fraud systems to fail, citing estimates of two-to-three-times higher fraud attempts and 35% of firms delaying initiatives. It recommends embedding layered controls like AI monitoring, virtual cards, and MFA.
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