DataVisor earns triple recognition for real-time AI-Driven Financial Crime risk decisioning. Business Wire Published Jul 21, 2026 Article content Recognized by AI Breakthrough, PayTech Awards, and Celent for Leadership in AI-Driven Financial Crime Prevention Article content 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. Article content Advertisement 1 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 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. Article content Top Stories Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Article content 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. Article content 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. Article content 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. Article content "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." Article content About DataVisor Article content 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. Article content Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content About AI Breakthrough Awards Article content 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. Article content About PayTech Awards Article content 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. Article content About Celent Model Risk Manager Awards Article content 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. Article content View source version on businesswire.com: Article content Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet.

DataVisor, an AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention platform, has appointed Patrick Harr as chief executive officer. Co-founder Yinglian Xie will transition to president of technology and AI, focusing on long-term AI innovation and product strategy. Harr is a five-time venture-backed technology CEO who most recently led SlashNext, an AI-native email security company, through its acquisition by Varonis. He previously scaled HPE Cloud's revenue from $40 million to $800 million annually. DataVisor serves financial institutions and payment providers with real-time fraud detection across billions of transactions. The company recently launched Vera, conversational AI agents designed for financial crime prevention. Co-founder Fang Yu will continue leading AI and product innovation.

DataVisor brings conversational AI agents to fraud and AML operations. DataVisor has announced Vera, a suite of conversational AI agents designed to combat financial crime. Vera enables institutions to manage risk using natural language, allowing teams to issue instructions that AI agents execute across the fraud and AML lifecycle. By reducing manual workflows, the platform supports a more efficient and adaptive operating model for modern financial crime prevention. Fraudsters are weaponizing AI, scaling attacks, and exploiting vulnerabilities faster than humans can respond. DataVisor's 2026 Fraud & AML Executive Report highlighted this AI "Readiness Gap," finding that only 23% have the right infrastructure, while 74% of leaders agree AI-driven fraud is a top threat. Vera helps close the gap by bringing unparalleled agility, intelligence, and adaptability directly into fraud and AML operations. "With Vera, for the first time financial institutions can outpace AI-driven attackers," said Yinglian Xie, CEO of DataVisor. "By unlocking unparalleled speed and intelligence, we are redefining the playing field and enabling a more proactive defense against AI-driven fraud." This new operating model enables institutions to seamlessly translate intent into action across fraud and AML operations. Ian Watson, Head of Risk Research at Celent, noted: "DataVisor's conversational AI agents show how true agentic technology can accelerate fraud prevention without sacrificing control. Initiated through a chat, conversational AI agents turn analyst intent into production-ready controls with governance automatically embedded." A new operating model for fighting financial crime. Vera's conversational AI interface enables fraud and compliance teams to direct AI agents in plain language, automatically executing actions across the platform. It provides capabilities that have never been available to fraud and compliance teams, including: * Speed: Teams can detect threats, deploy countermeasures, and adapt defenses faster and easier, without the bottlenecks of traditional manual workflows or no-code and low-code tools. * Intelligence & insights: AI actively surfaces insights from business and behavioral data and signals, enabling more effective and reliable decision-making. * Agility and adaptability: By combining Vera with cutting-edge unsupervised machine learning that uncovers emerging criminal patterns, teams can identify new trends and tailor risk strategies proactively at the earliest possible stage. * Enterprise-grade governance and control: AI agents provide full transparency and control, with logged interactions, human approval for actions, auditability and rollback. "Bringing conversational AI together with embedded execution agents puts more control directly in the hands of financial crime leaders. DataVisor's approach reflects the kind of practical innovation the industry demands to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats," said Chuck Subrt, Fraud & AML Practice Director at Datos Insights. With this update, risk teams now can unleash the power of AI agents executing end-to-end across fraud and AML workflows, from strategy design to optimization, investigation, and reporting with high speed, consistency, and scale. Early results from DataVisor customers, including NASA Federal Credit Union and a digital financial platform serving 10 million customers across lending, banking, and financial planning, demonstrate meaningful impact: * Detection strategy design: Convert emerging fraud patterns or regulatory requirements into detection strategies through plain language, increasing detection coverage by 2-3x. * Optimization: Continuously evaluate performance, simulate scenarios, and refine thresholds and rules, reducing false positives by 40%+. * Investigation: Surface key signals and guide analysts through investigations, reducing investigation time by 20-30x while improving consistency. * Regulatory reporting: Automatically generate SAR narratives from case data, reducing preparation time by 90%+ with full transparency and human review. "Vera represents a new era in financial crime defense. The ability to proactively adapt through AI agents strengthens our readiness and accelerates our response to emerging threats," said Doug Nahas, COO of NASA Federal Credit Union. "With a strong roadmap and thoughtful deployment, DataVisor is translating AI innovation into real, measurable value." More about