Whish Money processes more than $40 billion in payments every year, and it is adding a new layer of protection around that money. The fintech announced on November 12, 2026, in Dubai, that it is working with Visa to deploy Featurespace, Visa's AI-powered fraud prevention solution, across multiple payment channels in Lebanon.
Whish Money said the move will strengthen its fraud and scam detection, and improve how it monitors and manages fraud risk as its business continues to grow.
How Featurespace Reads Customer Behavior
Fraud rarely stays inside a single payment. It can stretch across several transactions, channels and customer interactions, so a wider view of activity matters when judging risk.
Featurespace uses a method called Adaptive Behavioral Analytics. It studies customer activity and interactions across payment channels in real time. By bringing transaction data and behavioral data together, the system produces risk scores and decisions designed to spot unusual behavior and suspicious transactions.
Visa's Case for Looking Beyond One Transaction
Walter Lironi, Head of Value-Added Services for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) at Visa, said managing fraud increasingly requires a view that goes past any individual transaction.
"Featurespace expands the fraud prevention capabilities Visa can bring to clients by combining behavioral analytics and real-time risk scoring and decisioning with our network-level risk capabilities," Lironi said. He added that this can help clients like Whish Money better understand activity across different channels and make more informed risk decisions as fraud continues to evolve.
Whish Money's Scale
Whish Money has offices in Beirut, Washington, Montreal, London and Dubai, and serves more than 2.5 million users. Its services include payment solutions, remittances, Visa cards and merchant tools for both businesses and individuals.
Featurespace will be deployed across the company's payments ecosystem.
"Protecting Our Customers Starts Before Money Moves"
Jad Koussa, CEO of Whish Money, framed the rollout around growth. "As we grow, we need technology that can keep pace with how our customers use our services and how fraud is evolving," he said.
Jad said Featurespace will help the company better identify suspicious activity across its payment channels and make more informed risk decisions, "helping our customers send, pay and receive money with greater confidence."
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