The second quarter of 2026 introduced new capabilities across Kount 360 designed to improve fraud detection, streamline investigations, simplify administration, and provide greater visibility into your operations. We have added new controls to help you manage your customer lifecycle and expanded our reporting tools to ensure you can optimize your fraud strategies with confidence. By continuing to enhance the platform's flexibility, we are empowering your teams to respond to emerging threats faster while maintaining a seamless experience for your trusted customers.
For complete details, check out the release notes from last quarter:
In the second quarter, we focused on delivering administrative and accessibility improvements across the platform. These enhancements provide granular control over policy versioning, streamline reporting, and improve the user environment.
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Tag Management Archiving and Restoration: Maintain a clean policy environment by archiving unused tags until a version rollback triggers their restoration.
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Light and Dark Themes: Improve readability and visual comfort in various lighting environments by allowing analysts to switch visual themes.
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Version Snapshot Reporting: Track configuration changes over time by capturing an exact snapshot of your policy management setup whenever a new version is published.
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Backtesting Comparison Reporting: Visually compare original traffic against simulated backtest configurations to evaluate the exact impact of a rule change before it goes live.
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Policy Duplication: Reduce data entry errors and publish faster by cloning existing policies directly within the policy creation workflow.
Payments Fraud received workflow improvements, including enhanced queue management and flexible decisioning capabilities. These updates reduce friction for trusted customers while helping analysts uncover interconnected fraud patterns.
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Explicit Approve Policies: Create dedicated policies to automatically approve trusted VIPs and high-confidence orders, ensuring a frictionless checkout experience.
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Dynamic Decision Status Updates: Gain real-time flexibility to re-evaluate and modify decision statuses throughout the order lifecycle, allowing you to instantly act on new fraud intelligence.
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Link Analysis Logic Controls: Broaden or tighten your data searches by switching between AND and OR matching logic for deep-dive fraud investigations.
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Anomaly Report: Identify emerging threats and unusual behaviors through a dedicated report designed for advanced anomaly detection.
We standardized workflows and improved visibility into alert lifecycles and program compliance. These enhancements streamline dispute resolution and help monitor your standing with major card networks.
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Alerts Expiration Visibility: Gain immediate visibility into when an alert expires to ensure your team prioritizes prompt resolution.
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VAMP Calculator: Access a dedicated tool that provides proactive visibility into potential Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) risks.
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Order Validation Enhancements: Quickly understand unsuccessful orders with simplified validation tables that clarify specific blocking issues.
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Faster Alert Management: Resolve multiple alerts simultaneously with standardized, bulk resolution capabilities to accelerate the dispute handling process.
The CDC solution now offers seamless access to the Kount 360 global fraud and identity platform. This integration provides advanced case management tools and a modernized match engine to streamline your compliance operations. By offering more flexible configurations, we are ensuring you can easily adapt and enable additional identity and fraud solutions as your business needs evolve. These enhancements are part of a rolling release and might not be available to all customers immediately.
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Intelligent Match Engine: Improve screening accuracy using a new AI/ML-driven match engine that moves beyond the limitations of traditional rules and fuzzy matching.
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Flexible Configurations: Deploy custom screening configurations with enhanced data elements, removed field limits, and direct API integrations tailored to specific user groups.
We expanded verification methods to provide flexible authentication options during high-risk scenarios. These updates improve security while maintaining a smooth experience for trusted users.
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Document Verification and Name Matching: Extract data directly from documents using OCR for primary assessments and automatically cross-reference scanned names with initial inputs for higher precision.
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Direct Image Upload API: Capture and submit the front and back of government IDs alongside selfies through a unified endpoint, providing full UI ownership and a consolidated request workflow for Identity Proofing assessments.
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Synthetic Identity Controls: Build automated routing and step-up rules using new Synthetic Identity Score, Indicator, and Dormant Identity conditions.
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Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA) Enhancements: Pause automated workflows with a "Hold" state and trigger KBA step-ups precisely when needed.
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Synthetic ID Data Card: Equip analysts with immediate context by viewing full synthetic data payloads directly within the Case Details UI during manual reviews.
Next quarter, we are focused on breaking down data silos and bridging the intelligence gap between fraud screening and bank authorizations. By prioritizing cross-platform visibility and real-time data sharing, these upcoming capabilities will help your team intercept live threats faster. Ultimately, these enhancements are designed to improve your authorization accuracy and maximize your transaction success rates.
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Global Search: Instantly surface crucial data points across the entire Payments Fraud solution from a single search bar to eliminate tedious table-by-table filtering.
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Authorization Optimization: Push real-time risk intelligence directly to issuing banks during the pre-authorization flow to improve authorization accuracy and unlock hidden revenue.
Questions about these enhancements? Contact your Customer Success Manager or support@kount.com for additional guidance.
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