Capstoneactive

Payment Fraud Detection Platform for Telcos & MSPs

Enterprise-grade real-time fraud detection system with sub-10ms latency, 5 detection signals, hot-reload policy engine, and complete evidence capture.

Overview

A comprehensive fraud detection platform designed for high-throughput payment processing environments. The system processes authorization requests in real-time, applying multiple detection signals including card testing detection, velocity analysis, geographic anomalies, bot/emulator detection, and friendly fraud scoring.

Key architectural decisions include a three-path data architecture (request-time, real-time Redis, async PostgreSQL), profit-based threshold optimization, and a hot-reload policy engine using YAML configuration. The platform achieves sub-10ms decision latency at 260+ requests per second with full evidence capture for dispute resolution.

Key Features

  • Sub-10ms decision latency
  • 5 fraud detection signals
  • Hot-reload YAML policy engine
  • Evidence vault for disputes
  • Prometheus metrics + Grafana dashboards
  • Champion/challenger model support

Metrics

< 10ms
Latency P99
260+ RPS
Throughput
5
Detection Signals
85%
Test Coverage

Tech Stack

PythonFastAPIRedisPostgreSQLPrometheusGrafanaDocker