Tonik, a licensed digital-only bank in the Philippines, has recently chosen NetGuardians and Finastra’s AI-based fraud mitigation solution as its official partner.
The company, which provides retail financial products including deposits, loans, savings accounts, as well as payments and cards on a highly secure digital banking platform, believes that the partnership will help it reduce fraud by preventing fraudulent payments in real-time.
The solution is also expected to help improve customers’ experience by reducing false alerts of deceit. Its ready-to-go AI risk models can accurately spot fraud, giving its clientele a high level of protection from tricksters across all of Tonik’s payment channels.
Extending the partnership
This is not the first time that Tonik has entered into a partnership with the banking software provider. In the past, the digital bank has also chosen Finastra’s cloud solution to power its end-to-end core banking capabilities.
Finastra, meanwhile, has partnered with Swiss fintech NetGuardians in 2019 to help identify fraudulent payments in real-time, stopping them before the money leaves the bank or the corporate organization.
PH ripe for digital banking
In a statement, Tonic announced that it plans to address the US$140 billion retail deposit and US$100 billion unsecured retail lending opportunities in the Philippines. “We believe the existing Filipino banking customers and the 70% of Filipinos that remain unbanked deserve a better choice – a digital-only bank that is simple, not intimidating, and helps them save in just a few clicks of a button. As the world leader in internet and social media usage, we believe the Philippines is ripe for becoming a world leader in digital banking, too.”
Tonik is officially the Philippines’ first neobank to secure a digital bank license from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Deposits are insured by the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC).