Mastercard International Incorporated

Yatin Katyal

Ankur Saraswat

Debasmita Das

Sonali Syngal

Karamjit Singh

Gaurav Dhama

Hardik Wadhwa

Sangam Verma

Rajesh Kumar Ranjan

Aakash Deep Singh

Nishant Pant

Suhas Powar

Shashank Dubey

Ankur Arora

Vikas Bishnoi

Tanmoy Bhowmik

Puneet Vashisht

Bhargav Pandillapalli

Ashish Kumar

Kamal Kant

Nitish Kumar

Garima Arora

Kanishk Goyal

Marilia Isadora Domingues Mendonca

Smriti Gupta

Kshitij Gangwar

Pritam Kumar Nath

Diksha Shrivastava

A computing device for analyzing data from user spending patterns to determine offers to be presented to credit card customers comprises a processing element configured to: receive transaction data for a plurality of transactions for each of a plurality of credit card numbers; input the transaction data into an encoder that performs linear transformations and nonlinear transformations to produce latent space data with each latent space data point being associated with one credit card number; input the latent space data into a clustering element which associates each credit card number with one of a plurality of clusters; and make an upgrade offer to credit card numbers that have a normal credit status and which are associated with clusters that include credit card numbers that have a preferred credit status.

Data analysis to determine offers made to credit card customers

Embodiments of present disclosure provide methods and systems for increasing transaction approval rate. Method performed includes accessing transaction features and determining via fraud model and approval model, first and second set of rank-ordered transaction features. Method includes computing difference in ranks of transaction features and determining set of utilized and unutilized transaction features and generating simulated authorizing model and computing simulated transaction approval rate and simulated fraud transaction rate for simulated authorizing model. Method includes generating plurality of proxy authorization models. Method includes computing transaction approval rates and fraud transaction rates for each of plurality of proxy authorization models and computing an increase in transaction approval rate and change in fraud transaction rate for each of plurality of proxy transaction approval models. Method includes determining one or more recommended transaction features from set of unutilized transaction features and transmitting one or more recommended transaction features to authorizing entity.

Neural network based methods and systems for increasing approval rates of payment transactions

Embodiments provide artificial intelligence-based methods and systems for predicting account-level risk scores associated with cardholders. Method performed by server system includes accessing payment transaction data and cardholder risk data associated with cardholder. The payment transaction data includes transaction variables associated with past payment transactions performed at Point of Interaction (POI) terminals within a particular time window. Method includes generating cardholder profile data based on the transaction variables and the cardholder risk data. Method includes determining account-level risk scores associated with the cardholder based on cardholder profile data. Each account-level risk score of account-level risk scores is determined by a trained machine learning model. The account-level risk scores include a wallet reload risk score, an account reissuance risk score, and a transaction channel risk score. Further, the method includes transmitting a recommendation message to an issuer server associated with the cardholder based on the account-level risk scores.

Methods and systems for predicting account-level risk scores of cardholders

A computing device for determining a new credit card number that is a continuation match with an old credit card number of a credit card account that has changed numbers comprises a processing element programmed to: receive transactional data for a plurality of credit card numbers, determine a plurality of old credit card numbers and a plurality of new credit card numbers, determine a plurality of clusters of new credit card numbers, convert the transactional data for each old credit card number and the associated cluster of new credit card numbers into snapshots with an image-like data format, train a modified siamese network with instances of snapshots of an old credit card number, a first new credit card number, and a second new credit card number, and use the modified siamese network to determine one new credit card number that is an upgrade of one old credit card number.

Method to determine that a credit card number change has occurred

Embodiments provide methods and systems for merchant data cleansing in payment network. Method performed by server system includes accessing electronic payment transaction records from transaction database. Each electronic payment transaction record includes merchant data fields. Method includes determining set of electronic payment transaction records with ambiguous merchant data fields having matching probability scores less than predetermined threshold value computed by probabilistic matching model and identifying at least one issue for non-matching of each of set of electronic payment transaction records. Method includes determining data model based on at least one issue of each of set of electronic payment transaction records. Data model is one of: phone-to-city model, payment aggregator model, and merchant name normalization model. Method includes updating set of electronic payment transaction records with unambiguous merchant data fields corresponding to ambiguous merchant data fields by applying data model to each of set of electronic payment transaction records.

Server systems and methods for merchant data cleansing in payment network

Siamese neural networks (SNN) are configured to detect differences between financial transactions for multiple financial institutions and transactions for a target party. A first neural network of the SNN tracks transactions (target transactions) for a particular customer or financial institution over time and provides a target output vector. Similarly, a second neural network of the SNN tracks transactions (baseline transactions) for all or a plurality of financial institutions (e.g., within a region) over the same period of time and provides a baseline output vector. The transactions for all or a plurality of financial institutions act as a baseline of transactions against which potentially fraudulent or money laundering activity may be compared. Because Siamese neural networks account for temporal changes based on the baseline of transactions, sudden changes in target transactions will only trigger an alarm if such changes (e.g., deviations or drifts) are relative to a baseline of transactions.

Detecting money laundering activities using drift in a trained Siamese neural network

The disclosure herein describes a system and method for predictive identification of breached entities. Identification number and expiration date pairs associated with compromised records in a source file are analyzed to identify a set of candidate entities having records at least partially matching the source file data pairs having events occurring during a selected time period. Probability vectors are calculated for records associated with each identified entity. A divergence value is calculated which represents a distance between probability distribution vectors for each entity and probability distribution vectors for the source file. A predicted breached entity is identified based on the divergence values. The predicted breached entity is notified of the predicted breach. The notification can include an identification of the breached entity, identification of breached records, predicted time of breach, and/or a recommendation to take action to mitigate the predicted breach.

System for detection of entities associated with compromised records

Embodiments provide methods and systems for determining optimal interbank network for routing payment transactions. Method performed by server system includes accessing historical transaction data of acquirer from acquirer database, determining payment transaction types corresponding to future payment transactions processing via acquirer for particular period of time based on historical transaction data, predicting fixed interchange cost for each payment transaction type incurring to acquirer for routing future payment transactions through interbank network of interbank networks based on interchange prediction model, performing linear optimization utilizing set of metrics, to make decision whether to apply merchant-specific discount to particular payment transaction type, or not, and routing real-time payment transactions through optimal interbank networks with lowest total transaction cost. Set of metrics includes total transaction cost for each payment transaction type, discount factor of interbank network, and number of future payment transactions routing through interbank network. Optimal interbank network is determined using linear optimization.

Methods and systems for determining an optimal interbank network for routing real-time payment transactions

Embodiments provide methods and systems for generating domain-specific text summary. Method performed by processor includes receiving request to generate text summary of textual content from user device of user and applying pre-trained language generation model over textual content for encoding textual content into word embedding vectors. Method includes predicting current word of the text summary, by iteratively performing: generating first probability distribution of first set of words using first decoder based on word embedding vectors, generating second probability distribution of second set of words using second decoder based on word embedding vectors, and ensembling first and second probability distributions using configurable weight parameter for determining current word. First probability distribution indicates selection probability of each word being selected as current word. Method includes providing custom reward score as feedback to second decoder based on custom reward model and modifying second probability distribution of words for text summary based on feedback.

Methods and systems for generating domain-specific text summarizations

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