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How Edge Computing Is Enabling Real-Time Fraud Detection in Payments
Episode 84 explores how edge computing is transforming real-time fraud detection in payment processing. Lucas and Luna dive into a concrete case: Mastercard's decision to move fraud scoring from centralized data centers to edge nodes near merchants, reducing latency from 300 milliseconds to under 50 milliseconds. They break down how local compute on point-of-sale terminals and gateways analyzes transaction patterns — like velocity checks, geolocation mismatches, and device fingerprinting — without sending sensitive data to the cloud. The hosts discuss the trade-offs: lower false positives…
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