{"id":83690,"date":"2025-12-18T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/?p=83690"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:47:47","slug":"alhamrani-universal-stanchion-payments-and-inetco-team-to-fight-payment-fraud-across-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/alhamrani-universal-stanchion-payments-and-inetco-team-to-fight-payment-fraud-across-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhamrani Universal, Stanchion Payments and INETCO team to fight payment fraud across the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em><u>Partnership delivers real-time, AI-driven fraud prevention to protect self-service and digital payments across the region<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As digital payments accelerate and financial crime grows increasingly sophisticated across the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universal.com.sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alhamrani Universal<\/a>, Saudi Arabia\u2019s leading fintech solutions provider, is strengthening regional payments security through the deployment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inetco.com\/products-and-services\/inetco-bullzai-for-payment-fraud\/\">INETCO BullzAI<\/a> cyber-fraud prevention platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduced through INETCO\u2019s global partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanchionpayments.com\/\">Stanchion Payments<\/a>, this collaboration reflects a shared commitment to building a trusted, resilient and inclusive payment ecosystem that drives accessibility and economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alhamrani Universal, the region\u2019s largest ATM solution provider, plays a pivotal role in supporting Saudi Vision 2030 and advancing digital transformation \u2013 partnering with banks and merchants across the Middle East to deliver innovative payment experiences that are secure and seamless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With INETCO BullzAI, the company gains real-time visibility into every step of the transaction journey across self-service and digital channels, ensuring that every terminal is legitimate, every transaction is secure and every settlement is completed smoothly and reliably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>INETCO BullzAI<\/strong> gives us real-time visibility across thousands of self-service and digital payment transactions &#8211; revealing which financial institutions and merchants are active, how transactions are performing and where suspicious behaviors or anomalies occur,\u201d said <strong>Mario Rouhana, Chief Operation Officer at Alhamrani Universa<\/strong>l. \u201cBy understanding the behavioral patterns of every user, terminal and device, we can scale our business with confidence, respond instantly to emerging threats and reinforce the trust our customers, partners and regulators place in Alhamrani Universal as a leader in secure digital transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/m1\/en\/publications\/global-digital-trust-insights-middle-east-findings-2025.html\">2025 Global Digital Trust Insights report for the Middle East<\/a> from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the rapid expansion of generative AI and cloud technologies has significantly increased the cyberattack surface for many of the region\u2019s financial services companies, increasing their vulnerability and exposure to new and evolving threats. In fact, 15% of organisations surveyed reported breaches costing over $100,000 USD, while 13% suffered losses exceeding $1 million USD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alhamrani Universal\u2019s decision to deploy INETCO BullzAI to monitor its evolving self-service and digital payments ecosystem was driven by the platform\u2019s ability to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Monitor every transaction in real-time with zero performance impact <\/strong>by providing visibility across all payment activity, eliminating network blind spots and safeguarding against unauthorised or unregistered terminals operating outside SAMA\u2019s licensed ecosystem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deliver deeper payments intelligence and insights<\/strong> with full access to transaction message fields for flexible, no-code rule creation, adaptive behavioural modeling, increased detection accuracy and detailed reporting on transaction volumes, spending behavior and terminal activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adapt instantly to new and evolving threats <\/strong>with self-training machine learning models that continuously analyze the behavioral patterns of individual users, terminals or devices, updating after every transaction to instantly detect and stop zero-day fraud attacks &#8211; without relying on external vendors or data scientists.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stop fraud and cyber-attacks before they complete<\/strong> with a patented AI-powered transaction firewall that pre-emptively blocks high-risk terminals and non-compliant activity, preventing BIN attacks, malware, account takeovers, AI-driven bot attacks, and card-present\/card-not-present fraud\u2014all without disrupting legitimate transactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs threat actors exploit new vulnerabilities, the financial, reputational and regulatory stakes are higher than ever,\u201d said <strong>Steve Kirrage, CEO of Stanchion Payments<\/strong>. \u201cTo stay resilient and maintain trust, leaders like Alhamrani Universal are embedding real-time fraud prevention and stronger compliance into their strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanchion is proud to support solutions like INETCO BullzAI that align to our shared commitment to faster settlements, lower fraud losses and trusted digital payment experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cINETCO, together with partners like Stanchion, are helping financial institutions in more than 30 countries strengthen real-time fraud detection and prevention,\u201d said <strong>Bijan Sanii, CEO and Founder of INETCO<\/strong>. \u201cIn rapidly digitizing markets across the Middle East, fraud attacks \u2014 from online phishing scams to card-not-present schemes to account takeovers \u2014 are evolving faster than legacy systems can respond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As these threats evolve, strategic innovators like Alhamrani Universal are setting a new standard for trust and resilience by embedding modern AI-driven protection to prevent zero-day fraud and ensure every transaction is fast, secure and reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership delivers real-time, AI-driven fraud prevention to protect self-service and digital payments across the region As digital payments accelerate and financial crime grows increasingly sophisticated across the Middle East, Alhamrani Universal, Saudi Arabia\u2019s leading fintech solutions provider, is strengthening regional payments security through the deployment of the INETCO BullzAI cyber-fraud prevention platform. 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