Overview

Finco Pay is a fintech company delivering secure and fast digital payment processing for global financial institutions and enterprises. It focuses on fraud prevention, risk reduction, and safe transaction handling using real-time streaming data. To improve payment security, Finco Pay partnered with Bacancy to build a real-time fraud detection pipeline using Databricks, Delta Lake, and machine learning models.

Technologies Used

Databricks
Delta Lake
Apache Spark Structured Streaming
MLflow
Python
SQL

Project Highlights

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Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline on Databricks

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Streaming Transaction Intelligence System

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ML-Based Fraud Scoring Engine Framework

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Delta Lake Unified Data Architecture Layer

The Challenges

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Deal with high transaction volumes and ensure real-time detection of fraud cases

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Minimize false positives that affect customers' transactions being processed

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Develop scalable streaming pipelines that can adapt to evolving fraud patterns

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Maintain consistent feature engineering both in streaming and batch environments

Solutions by Bacancy

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Our Databricks developers designed a unified Lakehouse architecture using Delta Lake to ingest and process real-time transaction streams with reliability and scalability.

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We implemented Spark Structured Streaming pipelines to evaluate transactions instantly & generate fraud risk scores based on behavioral signals, patterns, and historical anomalies.

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Using MLflow, we managed the full ML lifecycle, including model training, tracking, versioning, and deployment for fraud detection models in production environments.

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Our team built a dynamic feature engineering framework that updated fraud indicators such as transaction velocity, IP mismatch, and geo-location deviations to improve detection precision.

Core Features

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Real-time transaction monitoring and fraud scoring engine

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Streaming ingestion pipeline using Delta Lake architecture

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MLflow-based model lifecycle management

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Dynamic feature store for adaptive fraud detection

No. of Resource

03

No. of Resource

Time Frame

August 2025 - February 2026

Time Frame

Project Snapshot

Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline on Databricks for Finco Pay

Outcomes

35% reduction in false positive rate in fraud detection decisions.

Enabled real-time fraud identification across millions of transactions.

40% Improvement in model accuracy through feature optimization.

5M+ transactions per day handled without performance degradation.

45% increase in fraud detection rate using adaptive behavioral signals.

50% reduction in manual fraud review workload through automation.

Technical Stack

DATA ENGINEERING Databricks Delta LakeApache Spark Structured Streaming
ML & MODELING MLflow Python PySpark
STREAMING Kafka Integration
QUERY LAYER SQL on Databricks
DEPLOYMENT Databricks Model Serving
CLOUD PLATFORM Databricks Lakehouse Platform

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