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LONDON, June 2, 2026 -- Modulr, the payments automation platform built to scale, today announced that it has selected Alloy, the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform, as a key component in its Risk & Compliance Hub. By using Alloy to orchestrate Know your Customer (KYC) and Know your Business (KYB) verification checks across its international customer base, Modulr aims to streamline the onboarding experience for customers while maintaining strong risk, compliance, and financial crime controls.Modulr’s Risk & Compliance Hub is a connected set of tools and infrastructure that spans the entire customer lifecycle and is built to protect customers, further improve the onboarding experience, and prevent financial crime. The Hub underpins Modulr’s growth strategy as it scales internationally and enters new markets, making robust compliance a core part of its operations.“At Modulr, we’re building a Risk & Compliance Hub that can stand up to the pace of change in financial crime and regulation, whilst also allowing us to give an improved onboarding experience to our scaling customers” said Ben Taylor, Chief Operating Officer at Modulr. “Alloy helps us remove unnecessary friction from onboarding while keeping our teams firmly in control of the decisions that matter. That combination of speed, safety, and control is critical for us to keep pace with this fast-evolving threat environment as we continue to grow.” Modulr will use Alloy to power customer onboarding across multiple markets, consolidating data from a broad network of verification and intelligence providers into a single decisioning layer. Alloy’s AI-powered platform allows Modulr to dynamically assess customer and business risk, triage low-risk applications, and escalate higher-risk cases for deeper human review – all within a unified case management and audit trail.“Alloy and Modulr are focused on delivering a streamlined, low friction onboarding experience without compromising on compliance rigour,” said Parilee Wang, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at Alloy. “Modulr will leverage Alloy's no-code risk assessment capabilities, SDK, and network of partners to deliver positive customer experiences and ultimately growth across the business’ different markets.”Modulr’s payments automation platform streamlines money movement with greater accuracy, control, and reliability. Built to scale, it powers use cases across payroll, supplier payments, lending, and travel. With a growing international footprint, Modulr’s Risk & Compliance Hub is designed to scale alongside new products, customers, and geographies. Alloy’s platform and global data ecosystem gives Modulr the flexibility to add new data sources, adjust policies by market, and implement new risk management strategies without additional operational strain.About ModulrModulr is the payments automation platform built to scale, driving the future of finance operations by streamlining money movement with accuracy, control, and reliability. Through a single platform, Modulr automates how money moves into and out of a business – including payroll, supplier payments, spend management, and payment collection – which in turn removes manual work, lowers operational costs, and reduces errors. Backed by deep industry expertise, Modulr brings over a decade of experience as a regulated payments provider, delivering the reliability required to run mission-critical finance operations at scale. Processing more than 200m transactions and over £180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, Modulr is trusted by over 6,000 businesses – from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises – including a partnership with global financial technology leader FIS. Modulr is authorised and regulated as an electronic money institution (EMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and in Europe by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). To learn more, visit modulrfinance.com. Follow Modulr on LinkedIn and YouTube. About AlloyAlloy is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that unifies agentic automation and machine learning across the entire customer lifecycle, enabling fast onboarding, ongoing fraud monitoring, and simplified compliance for financial institutions and fintechs. Backed by over a decade of experience and the industry’s broadest open data network and orchestration engine, Alloy enables clients to grow their business with confidence. With offices in New York City and London, more than 800 leading financial organizations around the globe trust Alloy to manage risk at scale. Learn more at alloy.com.
New York, NY – May 18, 2026 — Suncoast Credit Union, Florida’s largest credit union and one of the nation’s leading financial cooperatives, has partnered with Alloy to help accelerate the financial institution’s growth by helping it manage fraud risks across the organization. The credit union is planning to nearly double in size to 2.5 million members by 2030, while continuing its member-first, mission-driven focus. To do that, the team needed a partner to help enable a seamless member experience, onboard more legitimate members, and provide access to a wider range of financial products, while mitigating risks. Suncoast chose Alloy as its strategic platform to power identity, fraud controls, and data orchestration across onboarding and ongoing member account activity“Alloy helps us say ‘yes’ to growth without compromising our member-first culture,” said Eva Coffee, Manager of Digital Strategy at Suncoast Credit Union. “It gives us a centralized place to manage identity and fraud decisions across onboarding and the entire member lifecycle, so we can review ongoing account activity with more confidence, and intervene only when there’s real risk. That way, we reduce friction for legitimate members.”Prior to partnering with Alloy, Suncoast saw fraud losses rising nearly 30% year-over-year. After deploying Alloy at onboarding and expanding into login monitoring and cross-channel fraud controls, the credit union reduced fraud losses by over 35% from 2023 to 2024. Working with Alloy, the Suncoast team can easily use adaptive authentication to put potentially risky users through additional layers of step-up verification, keeping bad actors out of the platform while still preserving a seamless experience for genuine members, including “snowbirds” whose locations change seasonally. In 2024 alone, Suncoast monitored 269 million digital logins through Alloy’s platform, generating 11,990 investigations. Alloy’s centralized decision engine enables Suncoast to continuously assess member risk, apply step-up verification when necessary, and automatically mitigate threats across digital, mobile, and in-branch channels.“Alloy has delivered exceptional member growth results for Suncoast while delivering material fraud reduction,” said Parilee Wang, Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Alloy. “By using Alloy to centralize identity management throughout the customer lifecycle, Suncoast has built a scalable foundation that allows it to adapt to emerging threats, expand product offerings, and deliver dynamic, low-friction member experiences.”About AlloyAlloy is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that unifies agentic automation and machine learning across the entire customer lifecycle, enabling fast onboarding, ongoing fraud monitoring, and simplified compliance for financial institutions and fintechs. Backed by the industry's broadest open data network and orchestration engine, Alloy enables clients to grow their business with confidence. With offices in New York City and London, more than 800 leading financial organizations around the globe trust Alloy to manage risk at scale. Learn more at alloy.com.About Suncoast Credit UnionSuncoast Credit Union is the largest credit union in the state of Florida, the 7th largest in the United States based on membership, and the 10th largest in the United States based on its $20.7 billion in assets. Chartered in 1934 as Hillsborough County Teachers Credit Union, Suncoast Credit Union currently operates 80 full-service branches and serves more than 1.3 million members across Florida. As a community credit union, anyone who lives, works, attends school, or worships in Suncoast Credit Union’s service area is eligible for membership. In 2021, Suncoast Credit Union’s field of membership was expanded to include public K-12 teachers, college educators, and educational support staff from all of Florida’s 67 counties. Suncoast is passionate about community support. Since its founding in 1990, the Suncoast Credit Union Foundation has raised and donated more than $61 million to organizations and initiatives that support the health, education, and emotional well-being of children in the communities that the credit union serves. For more information, visit suncoast.com or follow us on social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
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NEW YORK, May 13 -- As fraud increasingly targets the identity layer – through synthetic identities, credential compromise, and account linking abuse, Alloy, an AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform, today announced a partnership with Certos℠, a unified portfolio of fraud and identity risk solutions from Early Warning Services, LLC. The partnership is designed to give community banks and credit unions access to the same Certos suite of products that help better identify criminal activity earlier – before it can be used to move money – reducing the ability for fraud schemes to scale. Increasingly, large-scale fraud operations – including organized scam networks operating cross borders from foreign locations – rely on synthetic and compromised identities to steal money from Americans. “Fraud rarely stays in one place and by the time money is sent, it’s too late,” said Ben Chance, General Manager of Certos. “Criminals exploit identity infrastructure gaps between institutions. By bringing our products to banks and credit unions of all sizes, we can help these financial institutions protect their customers and make it harder for these criminals to operate.” Through the partnership, financial institutions including community banks and credit unions, that work with Alloy will now have access to the Certos solutions' risk signals derived from activity patterns across a network of more than 5,000 U.S. banks and credit unions of all sizes, payment companies, merchants, and government agencies – providing these institutions with the signals needed to make informed decisions. “With fraud evolving rapidly, financial institutions need to be able to identify fraudsters before they can steal money from the organization,” said Brian Bender, General Manager of Partner Solutions at Alloy. “Adding Certos to our partner solutions network increases our clients’ ability to share threat intelligence, which makes the tactics criminals use less effective and harder to scale, helping better protect America’s consumers and small businesses from economic disruption.” Community banks and credit unions using Alloy can leverage Certos to: Confirm in real time that a bank account belongs to the right person, helping reduce account takeover and fraudulent payment redirections Detect mismatched identities when a fraudster tries to link accounts, before money ever starts moving Strengthen fraud detection using better data and risk signals to spot suspicious and criminal behavior earlier Certos is backed by the history of Early Warning for stopping criminal fraud activity. For more than 35 years, the company has worked with financial institutions, law enforcement, and federal agencies to disrupt billions of dollars in financial crime and stop millions of potentially fraudulent payments. Certos is the next evolution of that work. Last year, solutions in the Certos portfolio of products: Helped stop $3.7 billion in potential fraud Screened over $11.4 trillion in payments and deposit transactions for activity like counterfeit information and washed or altered checks Supported 124 million new bank and credit union account applications Certos provides threat intelligence signals that support fraud prevention but does not make bank account-related or financial access decisions. Financial institutions and other organizations retain full control over onboarding, authentication, and transaction processes. As a reseller of the Account Ownership Authentication (AOA) solution, Alloy will manage contracting, integration, and ongoing maintenance for its customers. About Certos CertosSM is a unified portfolio of fraud and identity solutions that helps financial institutions distinguish real customers from synthetic or stolen identities at account opening, reducing payments and identity fraud while expanding access to critical financial services. It is backed by Early Warning Services, LLC – the company behind Zelle® and the Paze ® digital wallet – which has worked with financial institutions the 35-years to drive prosperity, deliver bold innovation and improve how payments are made. For more information, visit www.certos.com. About Alloy Alloy is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that unifies agentic automation and machine learning across the entire customer lifecycle, enabling fast onboarding, ongoing fraud monitoring, and simplified compliance for financial institutions and fintechs. Backed by the industry's broadest open data network and orchestration engine, Alloy enables clients to grow their business with confidence. With offices in New York City and London, Alloy enables more than 800 leading financial organizations around the globe to manage risk at scale. Learn more at alloy.com.
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NEW YORK (April 2, 2026) – Alloy, a leading identity and fraud prevention platform provider, today announced a partnership with Plaid, a global data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, to provide more financial institutions with improved digital tools to fight back against AI-driven fraud. In the past two years, the amount of money stolen by scammers and fraudsters rose 9.2%, largely driven by use of artificial intelligence. As financial institutions combat this increasing threat, the partnership enables Alloy clients to more easily build a holistic picture of customer identities from the start, lowering fraud losses and automating more of their KYC/KYB/AML workflows to reduce manual reviews.“AI is rapidly reshaping the risk landscape for financial institutions, and the best way to keep up is to embrace AI to fight it,” said Adam Yoxtheimer, head of partnerships at Plaid. “Companies like Alloy make it easy for banks to adapt and embed AI-powered tools and signals to see outside the walls of their institution. Together, we’ll help more institutions test and deploy the solutions needed to better understand risk and defend against fraud.”According to Alloy’s 2026 State of Fraud Report, only 24% of financial institutions and fintechs detect fraud at the time of onboarding. That leaves most organizations detecting fraud only after bad actors are in the system and money has already been stolen. To reduce these losses, companies need to build a robust, data‑rich view of customer identities at onboarding and continue to monitor those identities on an ongoing basis. Rather than relying on a single data provider, Alloy’s data orchestration enables institutions to layer and test hundreds of identity, fraud, and compliance solutions in parallel and adapt strategies as threats evolve. Plaid Protect combines machine learning models with cross-institutional insights to help detect fraud throughout a user’s lifecycle. Through the partnership, mutual customers can securely access Plaid Protect’s network‑level fraud intelligence directly in their Alloy workflows. In addition, the Alloy platform will now also include access to Plaid’s tools for verifying identities and assets and streamlining onboarding to build safer, more resilient experiences at scale. Clients can add these Plaid products directly from the Alloy platform, experiment with how they interact with other data sources, and roll out the combinations that best fit their risk appetite and growth goals.Plaid expands its presence in Alloy's industry‑leading network of over 250 partner solutions, all easily discoverable, configurable, and testable in Alloy’s Partner Center. Clients can test different configurations and utilize Plaid alongside other best‑in‑class solutions without building or maintaining separate point‑to‑point integrations.“Alloy was built on the idea that there is no single silver bullet for fraud or compliance,” said Brian Bender, General Manager, Partner Solutions at Alloy. “Our clients need the freedom to layer, test, and evolve their data strategies as threats change. Deepening our partnership with Plaid is a natural extension of that vision.”About AlloyAlloy provides an identity and fraud prevention platform that enables global financial institutions and fintechs to manage identity risk so they can grow with confidence. Over 800 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy’s end-to-end platform to access actionable intelligence and the broadest network of data sources across the industry, as well as stay ahead of fraud, credit, and compliance risks. Founded in 2015, Alloy is powering the delivery of great financial products to more customers around the world.
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NEW YORK, February 23, 2026--Alloy, the identity and fraud prevention platform provider behind over 800 fintechs and financial institutions, today announced the launch of the Alloy AI Assistant, a native, context-aware agentic AI solution to help organizations make faster, more confident decisions. The AI Assistant is embedded directly within Alloy’s risk and identity infrastructure and is able to understand and synthesize data to recommend a decision that a human can approve or configure to automatically accept.Fintechs and financial institutions today are increasingly balancing the need to move quickly to meet customer expectations with the need to manage complex fraud and compliance risks. For years, the solution has been for compliance and risk teams to conduct more manual reviews, resulting in poorer customer experiences and slower growth. The operational costs of managing these compliance workflows also cuts into financial organizations’ revenue. “Alloy's AI Assistant not only saves us a significant amount of time but also gives me the confidence to quickly review and close watchlist alerts based on the insights it provides,” said Edward Campiani, Chief Compliance Officer at EDGE, a fintech data and analytics platform founded in 2021.By leveraging the Alloy platform with the AI Assistant, organizations can automate operationally heavy, non-predictive review steps to save time for risk and compliance teams. In one case, a client reduced the average case review time from 20 minutes to mere seconds. Faster completion of open cases allows financial organizations to onboard more customers efficiently and ultimately increase revenue growth. The AI Assistant also provides a clear review trail to help financial organizations prepare for regulatory audits.“Alloy’s AI Assistant is unique because it’s built on reliable context,” said Tommy Nicholas, CEO at Alloy. “This sounds simple, but many other AI agents end up guessing because, without being embedded into a decisioning engine, they lack the necessary context to interpret, summarize, and contextualize information, let alone power decisive action.”Alloy’s AI Assistant is a part of the company’s Actionable AI suite which also includes Fraud Attack Radar, an AI-powered intelligence that flags fraud attacks at account origination, and Fraud Signal, Alloy’s predictive AI model that powers detection across the full customer lifecycle. The AI Assistant adds an additional layer of generative and agentic risk and compliance intelligence to the Actionable AI suite. This intelligence is informed by Alloy’s data ecosystem and feeds back into the orchestration engine to create a continuously improving decision system.About AlloyAlloy provides an identity and fraud prevention platform that enables global financial institutions and fintechs to manage identity risk so they can grow with confidence. Over 800 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy’s end-to-end platform to access actionable intelligence and the broadest network of data sources across the industry, as well as stay ahead of fraud, credit, and compliance risks. Founded in 2015, Alloy is powering the delivery of great financial products to more customers around the world.
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