Visa Launches Enhanced A2A Protect Innovations to Help Financial Institutions Stop Fraud Before Money Leaves Accounts
The enhanced A2A Protect uses AI and transfer learning to help banks detect fraud earlier and cut unnecessary alerts by more than 40%, Visa said.
- On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Visa announced an enhanced version of Visa A2A Protect, introducing a new unified fraud score and marking the first in-market integration of Featurespace technology.
- Rapid growth in account-to-account payments, projected to surpass 5.8 trillion by 2028, creates significant fraud risks as Asia Pacific accounts for an estimated 67% of global annual scam losses.
- Visa A2A Protect has demonstrated the ability to increase fraud detection by up to 75% within six months of deployment, while reducing over 50% more fraud and cutting unnecessary alerts by over 40%.
- "The latest enhancements to A2A Protect combine Visa's network intelligence with advanced AI capabilities," said Serene Gay, Head of Value-Added Services, Asia Pacific at Visa, noting the tool helps banks identify scams before authorization.
- Beyond the new score, Visa is developing complementary Visa Graph IQ capabilities to uncover fraud networks and money mule activity, allowing banks to incorporate network-level signals for enhanced threat detection.
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New unified fraud score is the first combined in-market offering since Visa’s acquisition of Featurespace. A2A Protect has been shown to limit more than 50% more fraud and helps reduce more than 40% unnecessary fraud alerts. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, today announced an improved version of A2A Protect […]
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