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Vigil fraud management platform

At the core of the Vigil service is our fraud management platform. This platform is powered by Feedzai – a provider of leading-edge fraud detection used by major banks, payment businesses and retailers globally.

The platform leverages advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, combined with big data, to accelerate the detection of emerging fraud trends which can help to protect businesses from fraud loses.

Agile models ensure the platform proactively keeps pace with fraud as it evolves, scoring transactions at scale without compromising on the response time required to spot and stop high-risk transactions.

Cuscal will have access to the latest data science modules to continually evaluate the effectiveness of the platform’s fraud models – building, testing and deploying new models to strengthen fraud rules and reduce the number of false positive alerts.

Harnessing the power of big data, our platform can turn big data inputs into the insights required to reduce risk and combat fraud.

Instantly ingesting available event signals from multiple sources – including transactional data, online sessions, customer data, device data and third-party data – the platform generates a 360 degree view of the customer’s normal patterns of behaviour which helps to identify fraudulent transactions.

Transactional and event data, paired with sophisticated machine learning algorithms, allow us to create a profile of individual customer behaviour to reach new levels of sensitivity and detect fraud with greater power and accuracy.

Profiling behaviour on an individual level helps the platform to maintain very low false positive ratios, allowing your customers to transact in a frictionless manner.

Our platform has the ability to process large amounts of data, enabling fraud analysts and operations teams to respond quickly and feed information into the platform to retrain modelling to respond to changes in fraud trends or new events.

By adapting to this human intelligence through automated feedback loops our platform can apply this knowledge to future transactions without the need for manual coding, so we can remain adaptive rather than reactive to stay ahead of coordinated attacks and emerging fraud trends.

Vigil fraud team

Our fraud team monitors transactions around the clock to protect against fraud at its most common time – after business hours.

The Vigil fraud team assess all transactions that are blocked, or alerted for investigation by our fraud management platform, to determine whether the block should be removed or if additional action should be taken.

We contact customers on your behalf with the upmost professionalism and sensitivity to confirm the legitimacy of questionable transactions and take action, if required.

The assessment outcomes from our team are automatically fed back into the platform so that it learns from, and adapts to, new fraud patterns and suspicious events without the need for manual coding, so we can remain adaptive rather than reactive to stay ahead of coordinated attacks and emerging fraud trends.

Vigil Case Manager

With direct access to reporting, transaction decisions and streamlined workflows between Cuscal and your organisation, Vigil empowers you with a complete end-to-end view of fraud.

Vigil Case Manager provides your business with an easy to access interface, allowing you to monitor and review items related to your customers.

With real-time access to statistics, analysis and fraud reports, Vigil Case Manager arms your business with the information you required to track your fraud results.

Teachers Mutual Bank Limited mobile banking

Teachers Mutual Bank Limited is dedicated to giving its members a great customer experience. So when it decided to revamp the mobile banking apps for its three brands it wanted to make sure that the new apps allowed its members to perform all their main banking needs in a simple and intuitive way.

We partnered with the team at Teachers Mutual Bank Limited to adapt our white-label mobile banking solution for its members’ particular needs. We then worked closely with the team at Teachers all the way through the development and implementation process to ensure a smooth launch and a great experience for members of Teachers Mutual Bank, UniBank and Firefighters Mutual Bank.

Watch the video for more on how Teachers Mutual Bank Limited and Cuscal are putting key banking functions in the hands of members to deliver a positive member experience.

Mastering the 8 elements of disruptive leadership


The Digital CEO, Stephen Scheeler, at Curious Thinkers 2018 in Sydney talking with Cuscal‘s clients about the eight elements of disruptive leadership.

Watch the video to find out the keys to disruptive leadership and how business leaders can learn from the successes of the tech giants to maximise the future success of their own businesses.

Unlocking the potential of real-time payment


A discussion on unlocking the potential of real-time payments with Adrian Lovney (NPPA), John Banfield (BPAY), our own Nathan Churchward & Phillip Finnegan (ACI Worldwide) at Curious Thinkers 2018 in Sydney.

Watch the video to see the panel discussion into the potential of real-time payments, as well as covering the competitive landscape, fraud and NPP access.

Faster Payments, Richer Data with Adrian


Adrian Lovney, CEO, NPPA at Curious Thinkers 2018 in Sydney providing Cuscal’s clients with information about faster payments and richer data.

Watch the video to learn the current status of the New Payments Platform as well as its plans and priorities for the future. Adrian delves into the NPP’s API plans and its ‘consent and mandate’ service which will lay the groundwork for servicing direct debits as well as the second phase of Osko ‘request to pay’.

How the New Payments Platform works

This animation shows what happens when you make a real-time payment between two accounts at participating financial institutions, using a simple to remember PayID.

When payments are sent using a service like Osko by BPAYTM, which is designed to work seamlessly with PayID, over 99% of payments will be completed in under a minute and most within 15 seconds – providing customers with a quick and easy way to transfer money between accounts at participating financial institutions there from launch.

We are connecting more organisations to the NPP than anyone else – more than half of all those who will be live on Day 1.

Learn more about connecting to the NPP with Cuscal.

How fast is the New Payments Platform?

Cuscal is proud to be one of the financial institutions bringing the New Payments Platform (NPP) to Australia.

This video demonstrates just how fast a payment on the New Payments Platform is. It shows a live payment between an account at Teachers Mutual Bank account and SCU, using a mobile phone number as a PayID instead of a BSB and account number.

Using Osko® on the New Payments Platform, over 99% of payments will be completed in under a minute, most within seconds – giving people a quick and easy way to transfer money between accounts at participating financial institutions.

We are connecting more banks, credit unions and building societies to the New Payments Platform than anyone else – more than half of those using the NPP from day 1.

Learn more about connecting to the NPP with Cuscal.

Economic benefits of NPP for financial institutions

This video explains the potential benefits to financial institutions that adopt the New Payments Platform (NPP).

Launching in Australia in 2017, the NPP will allow fast, versatile and data-rich payments between Australian financial institutions, consumers and businesses. The infrastructure will also support ‘overlay’ services that can be independently developed to offer consumers innovative and ground-breaking payment experiences.