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Mastercard occupies a distinctive position in the fraud prevention landscape, defined by the scale of transactional intelligence it has accumulated across decades of global operations. That data advantage has become increasingly central to its fraud strategy, and its most significant recent development in the space reflects that.
Launched in late 2025 following the company’ s acquisition of cyber threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, Mastercard Threat Intelligence represents the first offering of its kind applied to payments at scale.
The product integrates Mastercard’ s fraud insights and network visibility with Recorded Future’ s curated threat data, enabling fraud and cybersecurity teams at issuing and acquiring banks to detect and respond to cyber-enabled fraud in a more coordinated, proactive way. The gap it addresses is significant: 60 % of global fraud leaders report learning about cyber breaches only after losses have begun to accumulate.
The underlying argument is that fraud and cybersecurity teams have historically operated in silos, an arrangement that benefits neither.
During market testing, the platform’ s intelligence data helped partners identify and remove malicious domains linked to an estimated US $ 120m in fraud across nearly 9,500 e-commerce sites.
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