IT Smart Systems has entered a strategic alliance with Feedzai to combine fraud detection technology with banking delivery expertise.
The tie-up brings Feedzai’s RiskOps platform into ITSS’s existing portfolio, giving the integrator new machine learning capabilities for spotting fraud and tackling money laundering, alongside its established work in digital banking, payments and enterprise integration. The move responds to mounting pressure on banks to defend against increasingly sophisticated financial crime while still delivering frictionless digital services to customers.
Feedzai’s technology currently underpins risk decisions across more than $9tn in payments protected annually, while ITSS has spent 24 years building digital banking and payment infrastructure.
Together, the two firms intend to help financial institutions guard the entire payments journey across every channel, positioning the partnership as a readiness step ahead of the growth of instant payments and the planned digital euro. Rather than bolting fraud checks on as a separate step, the companies plan to weave real-time risk assessment into each stage of the customer journey, spanning digital onboarding, everyday payments and ongoing transaction monitoring.
ITSS’s practical experience spans onboarding, omnichannel payments, SEPA processing and KYC and AML workflows, which the company says allows fraud prevention to sit inside the digital experience rather than alongside it. A further outcome of the agreement is wider availability of Feedzai’s RiskOps tools in Romania and across the broader CEE market.
ITSS operates as a specialist in modernising banking platforms, integrating payment infrastructure and building omnichannel digital experiences for financial institutions, with a long-standing focus on the Romanian and CEE markets. Feedzai positions itself as a global authority in AI-native financial crime prevention, applying machine learning to detect and prevent fraud and money laundering across large volumes of global payment activity.
IT Smart Systems executive partner Alex Cociu said, “This partnership is more than a new technology alliance. It represents the next step in ITSS’s strategic vision: combining digital banking, enterprise integration, payments, AI, and fraud prevention into a unified, complete ecosystem for financial institutions.
Our customers already trust us to modernize banking platforms, integrate complex payment infrastructures, and deliver omnichannel digital experiences. Now, together with Feedzai, we can also help them stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated financial crime through AI-powered fraud prevention and AML capabilities.”
Feedzai general manager Maximilian von Criegern said, “AI is making scams more convincing and more scalable than ever. Behind every fraud loss is a person whose finances, ambitions, and future are affected. By partnering with ITSS, we’re strengthening defenses against evolving threats and helping protect customers from fraud before it happens.”
For those tracking where financial crime prevention and digital banking infrastructure are heading next, this alliance is worth watching closely.
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