Abstract: Methods and server systems for computing fraud risk scores for various merchants associated with an acquirer described herein. The method performed by a server system includes accessing merchant-related transaction data including merchant-related transaction indicators associated with a merchant from a transaction database. Method includes generating a merchant-related transaction features based on the merchant-related indicators. Method includes generating via risk prediction models, for a payment transaction with the merchant, merchant health and compliance risk scores, merchant terminal risk scores, merchant chargeback risk scores, and merchant activity risk scores based on the merchant-related transaction features. Method includes facilitating transmission of a notification message to an acquirer server associated with the merchant.

Abstract: Methods and server systems for improving accuracy of authorization optimizer are described herein. Method performed by server system includes receiving a Non-Sufficient Funds (NSF) error message from an acquirer server. Method includes accessing historical transaction data from a transaction database. The historical transaction data includes transaction related information associated with a plurality of users. Method includes generating a plurality of transaction features associated with the user based on the historical transaction data. Method includes determining via an authorization optimizer model, an optimal time slot from a plurality of time slots for the user based on the plurality of transaction features associated with the user. The optimal time slot indicates an optimal time window for the acquirer server to transmit an upcoming recurring payment request to the payment account of the user.

Abstract: A method for detecting fraudulent transactions includes generation of a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality edges between the plurality of nodes based on historical transaction data of a plurality of historical transactions. The plurality of nodes include a set of merchant nodes and a set of consumer nodes. A set of static features and a plurality of dynamic features are determined based on the historical transaction data and the generated graph, respectively. A neural network is trained based on the set of static features and the plurality of dynamic features for detection of transaction fraud. The neural network is used to detect a first transaction as one of a fraudulent transaction or a legitimate transaction based on first transaction data of the first transaction.

Abstract: Embodiments provide artificial intelligence methods and systems for evaluating vulnerability risks of issuer authorization system. Method performed by a server system includes accessing a set of payment transaction data including subset of fraudulent transaction data. Method includes generating via a machine learning model, set of synthetic transaction data based on the subset of fraudulent transaction data. Method includes accessing set of historical card velocity features and collating the set of synthetic transaction data and the set of historical card velocity features to generate set of enriched synthetic transaction data. Method includes extracting via a classifier, subset of feasible fraudulent transaction data from the set of enriched synthetic transaction data. Method includes generating simulated authorization model based on the set of payment transaction data.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for removing temporal biases in classification tasks. Method performed by server system includes accessing a transaction graph associated with a particular time duration and determining a set of local features and aggregate features associated with each node based on labeled data. Method includes generating via a machine learning model, a set of intermediate node representations associated with each of the plurality of nodes based on the set of local features and the set of aggregate features. Method includes generating via a fraud model and a timestep model, a fraud classification loss, and a timestep classification loss based on the set of intermediate node representations. Method includes determining an adversarial loss value based on the fraud classification loss and the timestep classification loss. Method includes determining a set of optimized parameters for the machine learning model based on the adversarial loss value.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for identifying a re-routed transaction. Method performed by processor includes retrieving a plurality of transaction windows from a transaction database. Each transaction window includes a transaction declined under a restricted MCC. The method includes accessing a plurality of features associated with each transaction of each transaction window from the transaction database. The method includes predicting an output dataset of a plurality of reconstructed transaction windows based on feeding the input dataset to a trained neural network model. The method includes computing a corresponding reconstruction loss value for each transaction of each transaction window. The method includes comparing the corresponding reconstruction loss value for each transaction with a pre-determined threshold value.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for merchant data cleansing in payment network. Method performed by server system includes accessing electronic payment transaction records from transaction database. Each electronic payment transaction record includes merchant data fields. Method includes determining set of electronic payment transaction records with ambiguous merchant data fields having matching probability scores less than predetermined threshold value computed by probabilistic matching model and identifying at least one issue for non-matching of each of set of electronic payment transaction records. Method includes determining data model based on at least one issue of each of set of electronic payment transaction records. Data model is one of: phone-to-city model, payment aggregator model, and merchant name normalization model.

Abstract: A computing device for determining a new credit card number that is a continuation match with an old credit card number of a credit card account that has changed numbers comprises a processing element programmed to: receive transactional data for a plurality of credit card numbers, determine a plurality of old credit card numbers and a plurality of new credit card numbers, determine a plurality of clusters of new credit card numbers, convert the transactional data for each old credit card number and the associated cluster of new credit card numbers into snapshots with an image-like data format, train a modified siamese network with instances of snapshots of an old credit card number, a first new credit card number, and a second new credit card number, and use the modified siamese network to determine one new credit card number that is an upgrade of one old credit card number.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to AI-based methods and systems of using machine-learning to identify deceptive merchants in payment transactions such as recurring payment transactions. For example, the AI-based systems and methods may train and use an aggregate merchant matcher based on entity matching to identify merchant identifiers and/or acquirers that may be used by a merchant, train and use transaction classifiers to classify transactions as deceptive, recognize merchants based on an N-density aware transaction embedding learned from transaction data, and train and use a merchant classifier to classify merchants as deceptive.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for predicting panic situation in a region and detecting panic states of merchants in the region. Method performed by server system includes accessing payment transaction data associated with merchants from transaction database and identifying panic trigger indicating panic situation in region based on transaction features associated with merchants. In response to identifying panic trigger, method includes generating transaction features based on payment transactions of merchant over time duration and determining association between merchant and merchant cluster based on transaction features associated with merchant. Method includes predicting time-series transaction data associated with merchant based on deep neural network model and merchant cluster associated with merchant, and calculating error between predicted time-series transaction data and real time-series transaction data associated with merchant.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for reducing decline rates of transaction requests in card-on-file payment transactions. Method performed by server system includes accessing information of a card-on-file payment transaction for a cardholder. The information includes a payment account of the cardholder and a payment amount to be paid to a merchant account of a merchant. Method includes determining a hidden state associated with the cardholder based, at least in part, on a deep Markov model and the payment amount. The deep Markov model is trained based, at least in part, on past customer spending features associated with the cardholder. Method includes predicting a likelihood score of being the card-on-file payment transaction getting approved within a particular time window based, at least in part, on the hidden state associated with the cardholder and providing a notification to the merchant based, at least in part, on the likelihood score.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for recommending one or more authorizing components to issuers and/or merchants for enhancing approval rates of payment processing requests. Method performed by server system includes receiving a payment authorization request for a payment transaction between a cardholder and a merchant in real time. The method includes identifying payment transaction features associated with the payment transaction based, at least in part, on the payment authorization request. The method further includes predicting a combination of one or more authorizing components to be applied to the payment transaction to obtain a product recommendation strategy for the payment transaction. The combination of one or more authorizing components is predicted based, at least in part, on a trained machine learning model and the payment transaction features.

Abstract: Embodiments provide electronic methods and systems for facilitating payment authorization for payment transactions initiated from an on-board device of an autonomous vehicle. The method performed by a server system includes receiving payment transaction request initiated from on-board device positioned in autonomous vehicle. The method further includes accessing authentication parameters received from on-board device, wherein authentication parameters include multisensory data captured using sensors positioned in autonomous vehicle, and generating authentication features based on authentication parameters and neural network models. The neural network models are trained based on historical multisensory data of one or more autonomous vehicles.

Abstract: A method for improving consensus in a blockchain network through decentralized grouping includes: identifying, by each node of a plurality of nodes in a blockchain network that manages a blockchain, a plurality of groups, where each is comprised of a subset of nodes; generating, by each node in each subset of nodes, a new block for the blockchain; performing, by each subset of nodes, a first consensus operation among all nodes in the subset of nodes for the new block generated by in the subset of nodes to identify a group consensus block, where each node in the subset of nodes receives the group's group consensus block; and performing, by the blockchain network, a second consensus operation among all groups for the identified group consensus block to identify an overall consensus block, where a majority of groups of the plurality of groups receives the overall consensus block.

Abstract: A method for detecting fraudulent transactions includes generation of a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality edges between the plurality of nodes based on historical transaction data of a plurality of historical transactions. The plurality of nodes include a set of merchant nodes and a set of consumer nodes. A set of static features and a plurality of dynamic features are determined based on the historical transaction data and the generated graph, respectively. A neural network is trained based on the set of static features and the plurality of dynamic features for detection of transaction fraud. The neural network is used to detect a first transaction as one of a fraudulent transaction or a legitimate transaction based on first transaction data of the first transaction.

Abstract: Embodiments provide anti-money laundering methods, and systems for detecting potential money laundering financial transactions using artificial intelligence. The method performed by a server system includes receiving data elements associated with financial activities of users who are associated with at least one issuer. The data elements include transaction data associated with users. The method includes identifying graph features based on data elements, and creating temporal knowledge graph based on the graph features. The temporal knowledge graph represents a computer-based graph representation of the users as nodes and relations among the nodes as edges.

Abstract: A method for improving consensus in a blockchain network through decentralized grouping includes: identifying, by each node of a plurality of nodes in a blockchain network that manages a blockchain, a plurality of groups, where each is comprised of a subset of nodes; generating, by each node in each subset of nodes, a new block for the blockchain; performing, by each subset of nodes, a first consensus operation among all nodes in the subset of nodes for the new block generated by in the subset of nodes to identify a group consensus block, where each node in the subset of nodes receives the group's group consensus block; and performing, by the blockchain network, a second consensus operation among all groups for the identified group consensus block to identify an overall consensus block, where a majority of groups of the plurality of groups receives the overall consensus block.