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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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NEW YORK (AUGUST 20, 2025) – Alloy, a leading identity and fraud prevention platform provider, has announced a new global partnership with Mastercard to launch an enhanced customer onboarding solution for financial institutions and fintechs. The new Mastercard Alloy joint onboarding solution will leverage identity verification and open finance to streamline the end-to-end onboarding process while combatting fraud.According to Alloy’s 2025 State of Fraud Report, fraud rates continue to rise, with 60% of financial institutions and fintechs reporting an increase in 2024. As a result, 93% of financial organizations reported plans to invest in ongoing fraud prevention measures in 2025, with 64% planning to implement an identity risk solution.The Mastercard Alloy joint onboarding solution provides a consistent identity risk strategy and onboarding experience across channels. Alloy intends to leverage Mastercard’s best-in-class global digital identity verification capabilities and suite of open finance-powered account opening solutions to help financial institutions and fintechs manage fraud and identity risk and secure account funding throughout the customer lifecycle. Mastercard products will be integrated and pre-configured in Alloy for seamless deployment. In addition to pre-built integrations to Mastercard products, customers will receive access to over 200 risk and identity solutions available through Alloy, helping to improve customer conversion rates, reducing manual reviews, and ensuring comprehensive end-to-end coverage. “Fraud continues to be a significant challenge for financial institutions and consumers alike, underscoring the urgent need for robust fraud prevention measures,” said Dennis Gamiello, EVP, Global Head of Identity at Mastercard. “This joint onboarding solution will be a game-changer in the fight to reduce fraud and deliver a seamless and secure customer experience.”“Successful fraud prevention starts with a holistic approach to understanding identity. Our partnership with Mastercard will allow more financial institutions and fintechs to evaluate customer identities holistically. The end result for those companies will be a better digital experience and less fraud risk, allowing their businesses to grow effectively,” said Parilee Wang, Chief Product Officer at Alloy.To learn more about Alloy, visit http://alloy.comAbout 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 700 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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