Fraud Orchestration Unifies Payments Risk And Fraud Defenses

Merchants and payments providers increasingly adopt fraud orchestration to unify risk signals, identity verification and payment routing, according to Spreedly's 2025 State of Checkout and Datos Insights reports. The piece notes 85% of merchants cite reducing customer friction as their top fraud challenge, with 47% estimating up to 5% of legitimate orders wrongly declined; 53% of U.S. FIs already use orchestration. Adoption aims to lower false declines and protect revenue.
Key Points
- 1Consolidates risk signals, identity, device intelligence, and payment routing into a unified real-time decision layer.
- 2Reduces false positives and friction, improving transaction approvals and preserving revenue and customer trust.
- 3Enables centralized rule management, A/B testing, and integration of multiple vendors to accelerate fraud strategies.
Scoring Rationale
Industry adoption and vendor integrations drive impact, but lack of novel technical breakthrough limits novelty.
Sources
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