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DataVisor earns triple honors for real-time AI-driven financial crime risk decisioning
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DataVisor Earns Triple Recognition for Real-Time AI-Driven Financial Crime Risk Decisioning
Recognized by AI Breakthrough, PayTech Awards, and Celent for Leadership in AI-Driven Financial Crime Prevention MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataVisor, the AI real-time decisioning platform for fraud and financial crime adaptive prevention, today announced a wave of industry validation and awards for its innovation in AI-driven risk decisioning, financial crime management, and AI-assisted operations. Central to that momentum is Vera, DataVisor's suite of AI agents that bring real-time intelligence, automation, and decisioning into the day-to-day work of fraud and AML teams.
The company won accolades across three prestigious industry forums for the same core idea: AI-driven threats are growing more sophisticated and harder to contain with fragmented legacy solutions, creating a need for a more intelligent and unified approach to risk. Together, these awards reflect the growing recognition of the importance of AI-native real-time decisioning that can better protect institutions against emerging threats while significantly increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of anti-fraud and AML operations.
In the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards, DataVisor was named Decision Intelligence Company of the Year, underscoring the company's leadership in applying AI in real time and at scale to real-world decisioning challenges in fraud and financial crime prevention.
That same platform vision was also recognized by the PayTech Awards, where DataVisor was honored in the Best AI Solution – Risk Management & Decisioning category. The award highlights DataVisor's growing importance in payments, where institutions need AI-driven decisioning that can keep pace with faster money movement and more sophisticated fraud.
A customer deployment brought this strategy into sharp focus when global financial services research and advisory firm Celent awarded NASA Federal Credit Union Model Risk Manager of the Year, for modernizing fraud prevention and AML through a unified, AI-native real-time FRAML platform powered by DataVisor. Results span financial crime loss mitigation and operational efficiency gains, reinforcing the practical value of bringing fraud, AML, decisioning, and agentic AI onto a shared intelligence layer that improves real-time detection, reduces manual effort, and delivers measurable business outcomes.
“Fraud and financial crime are being reshaped by AI, and financial institutions need a new operating model that can respond with the same speed and intelligence as the threats they face,” said Patrick Harr, Chief Executive Officer of DataVisor. “These awards reinforce the value of combining real-time decisioning, risk management, and AI-driven operations in one platform, and they reflect the momentum we are building around Vera and the broader DataVisor vision.”
About DataVisor
DataVisor is the AI-native real-time decisioning engine for fraud and financial crime prevention. As AI transforms both fraud attacks and fraud defense, DataVisor helps financial institutions, payment providers, and digital businesses detect, investigate, and stop sophisticated and previously unseen threats in milliseconds across billions of transactions. Combining adaptive machine intelligence, consortium intelligence, and emerging agentic AI capabilities, DataVisor enables organizations to modernize fraud operations, improve customer experience, and stay ahead of rapidly evolving financial crime. DataVisor is trusted by leading financial institutions, payment innovators, Fortune 500 enterprises, and digital businesses worldwide.
About AI Breakthrough Awards
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the AI Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Artificial Intelligence technologies, services, companies and products. The AI Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of AI companies and products in categories including Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Robotics, AI Hardware, Computer Vision and more. For more information visit AIBreakthroughAwards.com.
About PayTech Awards
The PayTech Awards, presented by FinTech Futures, celebrate innovation and outstanding achievements across the payments industry. The program recognizes excellence among banks, financial institutions, fintechs, paytechs, technology providers, and industry leaders helping shape the future of payments.
About Celent Model Risk Manager Awards
Celent’s annual Model Risk Manager Awards recognize the best practices of technology usage in different areas critical to success in Risk. Nominations are submitted by financial institutions and undergo a rigorous evaluation process by Celent analysts. Celent judges submissions on three core criteria: the degree of innovation, technology or implementation excellence, and demonstrable business benefits. Celent’s annual award program recognizes financial institutions as ‘model risk managers’ for their outstanding technology initiatives. To win, initiatives must demonstrate clear business benefits, innovation, and technology or implementation excellence.
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