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What it does
Feedzai sells a RiskOps platform that banks, payment networks and acquirers use to detect and stop fraud, scams and money laundering in real time, unifying identity, behavioural, device, transaction and third-party signals from onboarding to remediation, with a separate network score (Feedzai IQ Score) delivered by API. Since 24 September 2026 the platform ships Farol, an embedded agent that retrieves and summarises alert data, analyses rule performance, drafts suspicious activity reports and answers product questions inside RiskOps Studio. Feedzai says it is building two more things for the agentic era: Bring Your Own Agent, to connect banks' own and partner agents to its platform, and detection that checks who authorised a customer's agent, what it may do and whether it still matches its intent. s1s4s14s3s2s6
Its AI agents
Farol
Feedzai's always-on AI agent, launched 24 September 2026 and built into RiskOps Studio. Analysts talk to it in plain language and it picks a skill: Risk Strategy, Investigations, SAR Narrative and Knowledge. Feedzai says it runs inside each institution's own environment, with traceable reasoning, transparent audit trails and what the launch release calls autonomous execution capabilities; analysts stay in control of actions. s2s3s6s4
What it can do:
Retrieves and summarises alert and case data and shows what triggered an alert
Interrogates rule sets, flags rules generating noise without catching fraud (for example rules that have not caught fraud in 30 days) and recommends sharper thresholds and production-ready rule suggestions
Turns case data into an evidence-backed SAR draft for investigator review
Answers how-to questions from product documentation with cited sources
Next step on the roadmap: proactive risk insights, flagging risks before it is asked
Bring Your Own Agent
An upcoming capability, still in development with customers invited to test it: banks connect their own or partner-built agents, with their choice of model, to Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows through a secure connection. Feedzai's blog says these agents connect via a Model Context Protocol gateway and inherit the platform's permissions and audit trail. s2s6s26
What it can do:
Connects a bank's own or third-party agents to Feedzai data, intelligence and workflows
Runs them alongside Farol from the same context, as one connected system
Routes them through one gateway, one audit trail and one set of controls (as described by Feedzai)
Agentic Detection (KYA)
Not an agent Feedzai runs today but the detection it says it is building to watch the agents that reach banks: telling legitimate customer agents from agent takeovers, agent botnets and malware, and checking who authorised an agent, what it is allowed to do and whether its behaviour still matches its intent. Feedzai calls the wider idea Know Your Agent (KYA). Its CTO's Web Summit 2026 session, "Who let the agent in?", is about building agents with identity, boundaries and accountability. s2s6s26s28
What it can do:
Detects agents in banking traffic and classifies their intent (in development)
Verifies who authorised an agent and what it is allowed to do (in development)
Checks whether an agent's behaviour still matches its original intent, aiming to stop malicious agents before they act (in development)
Use cases: reach, mandate and gap
For each use case: what the agent can technically reach (from the sources), what a deployer would plausibly authorise (the mandate: illustrative, our judgement), the gap between the two (authority nobody accepted), and the controls that publicly stand in the way.
A customer's agent moves money at a Feedzai bank
The agent: Agentic Detection (KYA) · who uses it: A bank running Feedzai RiskOps whose retail customers start letting their own AI agents log in, pay bills and move money for them, the case Feedzai describes for the agentic era and its CTO's Web Summit session addresses.
Reach
Kind
Sources
The customer's online banking session: the agent logs in on the customer's behalf
Illustrative: the customer authorises the agent to pay named recurring bills from one account, up to a monthly limit
Illustrative: the agent may not add payees, raise limits or send money to a new beneficiary without the customer confirming
Gap: reach beyond the mandate
From the reach
The bank's identity checks were built to verify a human; Feedzai itself says what an agent is allowed to do, on whose authority and within what limits is not yet established, and that live registries of authorised agents will be needed. Until then the customer's limits live only between the customer and the agent.
The customer's online banking session: the agent logs in on the customer's behalf; The customer's money: the agent pays bills and moves money, and Feedzai expects agents to approve transactions on users' behalf
An instant payment clears in seconds, so any check on whether the agent is still within its limits has to happen before the money moves, not after.
The customer's money: the agent pays bills and moves money, and Feedzai expects agents to approve transactions on users' behalf; Real-time payment rails (instant payments such as Pix, and Canada's Real-Time Rail) that clear and settle in seconds, around the clock
A malicious agent can look identical to the customer's agent; the detection meant to tell them apart is still being built.
Malicious agents that look identical to customers' agents: agent takeovers, agent botnets and agentic malware; The customer's online banking session: the agent logs in on the customer's behalf
Controls that publicly stand in the way
Sources
Real-time risk scoring across onboarding, activity and payments using behavioural biometrics, device intelligence, transaction and third-party signals, with explainability and audit trails
In development, not live: agentic detection that verifies who authorised an agent, what it may do and whether its behaviour matches its intent; Know Your Agent on the roadmap
The simulation, each action placed against the mandate (RiskMandate is never in the request path: read-only by design: it places, it does not stop):
The customer sets up a personal agent to pay their utility and phone bills from their current account (illustrative)(person, reaches The customer's online banking session: the agent logs in on the customer's behalf): inside the mandate
The agent logs in to online banking on the customer's behalf; Feedzai scores the session's device and behaviour signals (illustrative)(agent, reaches Feedzai's real-time scoring of the session and payment: behavioural biometrics, device intelligence, transaction and network signals): inside the mandate
Pays the month's utility bill to an existing payee (illustrative)(agent, reaches The customer's money: the agent pays bills and moves money, and Feedzai expects agents to approve transactions on users' behalf): inside the mandate
Reads an email claiming the energy supplier's bank details changed, adds the new account as a payee and approves the payment itself (illustrative)(agent, reaches The customer's money: the agent pays bills and moves money, and Feedzai expects agents to approve transactions on users' behalf): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows the agent could add a payee and approve a payment to it, while the mandate was existing payees only, and that the customer's limits were held by the agent alone, with no registered permission the bank could check.
The payment goes out on an instant rail and settles in seconds (illustrative)(agent, reaches Real-time payment rails (instant payments such as Pix, and Canada's Real-Time Rail) that clear and settle in seconds, around the clock): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows the exposure as the full payment on a rail that settles in seconds, with the bank's real-time scoring as the only documented control in front of it.
A week later a different agent, presenting like the customer's own, logs in with a stolen session and starts moving money (illustrative)(agent, reaches Malicious agents that look identical to customers' agents: agent takeovers, agent botnets and agentic malware): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows a reach no mandate covers: an outside agent indistinguishable from the authorised one, and that the detection meant to tell them apart is described by Feedzai as in development.
Farol inside a bank's fraud and AML team
The agent: Farol · who uses it: Fraud and AML analysts and risk strategy teams at a bank using Feedzai RiskOps Studio; SEB's fraud prevention business owner is quoted on its value for data retrieval and rule suggestions.
Reach
Kind
Sources
Alert and case data in the institution's fraud and AML stack, and the analyst tools around it
As Feedzai documents it: agents surface insights and recommendations with transparent reasoning, and analysts verify outcomes and take actions as they see fit
Illustrative: the bank lets Farol read alerts and draft; any rule change goes through challenger testing and a named approver, and only an investigator files a SAR
Gap: reach beyond the mandate
From the reach
The launch release speaks of autonomous execution and production-ready rule suggestions, while the product page says analysts take the actions; which actions Farol can take on its own in a given deployment is not public.
Production-ready rule suggestions and what the launch release calls autonomous execution capabilities in risk workflows; Rule sets, rule performance, coverage gaps and thresholds
A SAR draft about a named customer is one click from case data; Feedzai's own blog says the final call to file must be documented and attributed to a named human.
Suspicious Activity Report drafts built from case data, about named customers, for local filing requirements
Controls that publicly stand in the way
Sources
Farol runs within each institution's own environment, so what it surfaces stays in the customer's estate
The simulation, each action placed against the mandate (RiskMandate is never in the request path: read-only by design: it places, it does not stop):
An analyst asks Farol what triggered an alert on a customer's transfer(person, reaches Alert and case data in the institution's fraud and AML stack, and the analyst tools around it): inside the mandate
Retrieves and summarises the alert and case data, with the reasoning shown(agent, reaches Alert and case data in the institution's fraud and AML stack, and the analyst tools around it): inside the mandate
A risk strategist asks which rules are noisy; Farol flags rules that have not caught fraud in 30 days(person, reaches Rule sets, rule performance, coverage gaps and thresholds): inside the mandate
Recommends a sharper threshold as a production-ready rule suggestion(agent, reaches Production-ready rule suggestions and what the launch release calls autonomous execution capabilities in risk workflows): inside the mandate
The suggested threshold is applied to the live rule without a challenger test or a named approver (illustrative)(agent, reaches Production-ready rule suggestions and what the launch release calls autonomous execution capabilities in risk workflows): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows a live detection rule within reach of an agent's suggestion, while the mandate required challenger testing and a named approver, and that where Farol's autonomous execution stops in this deployment is not documented publicly.
Turns the case into an evidence-backed SAR draft(agent, reaches Suspicious Activity Report drafts built from case data, about named customers, for local filing requirements): inside the mandate
Under queue pressure the draft is filed unchanged, with no investigator's own review recorded (illustrative)(person, reaches Suspicious Activity Report drafts built from case data, about named customers, for local filing requirements): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows a regulatory report about a named person drafted by an agent and filed without evidence of the named human review the mandate requires.
A bank's own agents through Bring Your Own Agent
The agent: Bring Your Own Agent · who uses it: A bank that has built its own agents, or uses partner-built ones, and connects them to Feedzai once Bring Your Own Agent ships (it is upcoming and in testing with customers).
Reach
Kind
Sources
Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows, the same context Farol works from
Illustrative: the bank's own agent reads alert context for one queue and writes notes, nothing else
Illustrative: a partner agent is read-only and sees no customer data beyond the case it is asked about
Gap: reach beyond the mandate
From the reach
Agents that inherit the platform's permissions reach whatever the platform role they run under reaches; how narrowly one connected agent can be scoped is not yet documented.
Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows, the same context Farol works from; A Model Context Protocol gateway through which connected agents inherit the platform's permissions and audit trail
A partner agent on a model of the bank's choice works from the same context as Feedzai's own agents; where that data goes for inference is outside Feedzai's estate.
Third-party partner agents and the bank's choice of model; Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows, the same context Farol works from
Controls that publicly stand in the way
Sources
As described for the upcoming capability: one gateway, one audit trail and one set of controls for every agent, wherever it came from
The simulation, each action placed against the mandate (RiskMandate is never in the request path: read-only by design: it places, it does not stop):
The bank connects its own case-notes agent through the gateway (illustrative)(person, reaches A Model Context Protocol gateway through which connected agents inherit the platform's permissions and audit trail): inside the mandate
Reads alert context for its queue and writes a note (illustrative)(agent, reaches Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows, the same context Farol works from): inside the mandate
Because it inherits the platform permissions of the connecting role, it also lists alerts and customer profiles from other queues (illustrative)(agent, reaches Feedzai's data, intelligence and workflows, the same context Farol works from): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows the agent's reach set by an inherited platform role rather than by its own mandate, and every queue that role can see inside it.
A partner's agent, running on an outside model, is connected for one case review (illustrative)(person, reaches Third-party partner agents and the bank's choice of model): inside the mandate
The partner agent sends the full customer profile to its model provider to summarise it (illustrative)(agent, reaches Third-party partner agents and the bank's choice of model): outside the mandate: in the gap. What RiskMandate's record shows: RiskMandate's record shows customer data reachable by a third-party agent and its model provider, outside the estate where Feedzai says Farol keeps its insights, with only the gateway's audit trail as evidence.
The run
The search agents that looked for leads on 2026-11-07T21:16:45.210Z, for a total cost of $0.0929. What a model says is a lead, not a fact.
Agent
Model
Time
Citations
Leads
Perplexity search
perplexity/sonar
7.4 s
15
16
OpenAI search
openai/gpt-5.4-nano:online
12.9 s
3
9
Gemini search
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite:online
2.8 s
4
5
OpenRouter web search
anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
25.0 s
14
24
Leads: what the models claimed, and what we found
Model
Claim
Status
Source
perplexity
Feedzai provides AI-powered fraud and financial crime prevention for banks and fintechs, in real time.
Feedzai says fraudsters may use AI agents too and is building detection to verify who authorised an agent, what it can do and whether its behaviour still matches intent.
Feedzai's AI detects fraud across inbound and outbound transactions and payment rails, including card fraud, account takeover, synthetic identity, scams, mules, phishing and malware.
Peoples Group partnered with Feedzai ahead of Canada's Real-Time Rail rollout in late 2026, starting with real-time transaction fraud monitoring and alert management.
A federal lawsuit alleged Citibank failed to prevent a roughly $20 million romance-investment scam; Feedzai commented in general terms and no Feedzai failure is alleged.
Feedzai's 2026 survey found self-rated readiness of 80.2 against measured capability of 66.9; fielded 13 July to 4 August 2026, published 8 October 2026.
When Farol uses what your launch release calls autonomous execution, which actions can it take without an analyst approving them (changing a live rule, closing an alert, filing a SAR), and who in the bank sets that line?
Agents connected through Bring Your Own Agent inherit the platform's permissions: can a bank scope one connected agent below the role it connects under, and is each action attributed to that agent and to a named human in the audit trail?
For Know Your Agent: when a customer's agent arrives at a bank, what will your detection read to learn the limits the customer set, and what happens to a payment that is outside them on a rail that settles in seconds?
Farol runs inside the institution's environment: which model providers does it call, and does any case or customer data leave the bank's estate for inference?
Can a bank export Farol's record of what it retrieved, recommended and who acted on it into its own model risk records, so a supervisor can see who authorised each step?
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