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Forged in the Hardest Market
Why building in Brazil created a more resilient product.
How it works
- 1Brazil has extreme fraud pressure and almost no online-crime enforcement, forcing banks to build defenses a decade ahead of the United States.
- 2A product hardened in the toughest market wins easily in calmer ones.
- 3Proof point: a European bank tested Incognia in Brazil, got overwhelmed by fraud in two weeks, saw data showing 95% was preventable, then deployed across all its markets including Europe.
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