Case Study: Shift4 achieves 70% more productive alerts with ThetaRay AI transaction monitoring

Shift4 increases productive alerts by 70% with ThetaRay

Shift4, a global payments and merchant acquiring company processing over $200 billion annually for 200,000+ businesses, faced significant challenges with its legacy AML monitoring system. The static, rule-based system created a 89% false positive rate, causing severe alert fatigue and halting product launches because it could not ingest data for new payment channels. To overcome these operational and regulatory hurdles, Shift4 partnered with ThetaRay and implemented its AI Transaction Monitoring platform.

By deploying ThetaRay's AI solution, which uses over 30 weighted risk indicators and provides explainable risk scoring, Shift4 dramatically improved its compliance operations. The results included an 86% reduction in false positives and a 70% increase in productive alerts, saving analysts approximately 28 hours per week. This empowered Shift4 to meet strict regulatory deadlines and scale its business without expanding its compliance team headcount.

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