• Are your credit decisions taking days because analysts are manually reviewing applications that a model could score in seconds?

  • Are you discovering fraud after the transaction has settled, or does your system surface suspicious signals in real time?

AI for Fintech and Banking

Manual credit reviews that take days, fraud detected after the transaction settles, and loan documents processed by hand: these are the operational bottlenecks that cost fintech businesses money and slow down the customer experience.
We build AI systems for fintech startups, digital banks, lending platforms, and payment processors: credit risk scoring models, real-time fraud detection, document extraction for loan origination, AI-powered customer support, regulatory reporting automation, anti-money laundering anomaly detection, and algorithmic trading signal generation. Every system is scoped against your data and a specific business outcome.

  • Credit risk models trained on your applicant data that score loan decisions in seconds, not days

  • Fraud detection that flags suspicious transactions in real time before settlement, not after

  • Document extraction that reads and structures income statements, bank statements, and ID documents without manual re-keying

  • AML anomaly detection that surfaces unusual transaction patterns for your compliance team to review

RaftLabs builds AI systems for fintech startups, digital banks, lending platforms, and payment processors including credit risk scoring models, real-time fraud detection pipelines, document extraction for loan origination workflows, AI-powered customer support, regulatory reporting automation, anti-money laundering anomaly detection, and algorithmic trading signal generation. Engagements are scoped at a fixed price after a discovery phase that maps your transaction data, applicant records, and compliance requirements to the specific AI capability being built.

Vodafone
Aldi
Nike
Microsoft
Heineken
Cisco
Calorgas
Energia Rewards
GE
Bank of America
T-Mobile
Valero
Techstars
East Ventures

Decisions that should take seconds, not days

Fintech AI is most valuable when it replaces a decision that was slow, expensive, or inconsistent with one that is fast, documented, and model-driven. Credit scoring, fraud detection, and compliance monitoring are all decisions your data can already support. The gap is between the data and the model.

What we build

Credit risk scoring models

Classification models trained on your historical applicant data and loan outcomes. Inputs include bureau data, bank transaction features, income verification, and alternative signals where bureau data is thin. Output is a probability-of-default score and contributing factors for each applicant. Scores arrive in seconds, not days. Model accuracy is measured against your current approval and default rates before deployment. Configurable score thresholds by product type and risk appetite.

Real-time fraud detection

Transaction-level classification models that evaluate each payment against velocity signals, device fingerprint, merchant category, location, and behavioural history. Outputs a fraud probability score in milliseconds. Transactions above threshold are flagged or declined before settlement. The model is trained on your labelled transaction history and retrained on a schedule as new confirmed fraud cases accumulate. Reduces fraud losses without increasing false decline rates on legitimate transactions.

Loan origination document extraction

AI that reads bank statements, pay stubs, tax returns, and ID documents and extracts structured fields automatically. Classifies individual bank transactions by category -- salary credits, rent, loan repayments -- to give underwriters additional income and liability signals beyond headline balances. Handles scanned paper, PDF, and mobile-camera images. Low-confidence extractions are flagged for manual review. Eliminates manual re-keying and reduces document processing time per application.

AI-powered customer support

Conversational AI for customer-facing support on balance queries, transaction disputes, loan status, and account management. Trained on your product documentation, FAQ content, and historical support transcripts. Resolves routine queries without agent involvement. Escalates to a human agent when the query requires it, with full context passed. Integrates with your existing CRM and ticketing system via API. Reduces cost-per-contact without reducing resolution quality on standard query types.

Regulatory reporting automation

AI that extracts, classifies, and aggregates the transaction and position data required for regulatory reports -- CTRs, SARs, capital adequacy reports, and liquidity reports -- from your core banking or ledger system. Reduces the manual data preparation time your compliance team spends before each reporting cycle. Flags data quality issues in the source data before they cause reporting errors. Produces audit-ready outputs with data lineage documentation. Works with your existing report submission tooling.

AML anomaly detection

Unsupervised and supervised models that learn each customer's normal transaction behaviour and surface deviations for compliance review. Network analysis that maps fund flow between accounts to detect layering and structuring patterns. Produces a prioritised alert queue ranked by anomaly severity, so your compliance team reviews the most likely cases first rather than working through uniform rule-based alert volumes. Reduces false positive rate compared to rule-only monitoring while maintaining detection coverage on genuine suspicious activity.

Which fintech decision are you still making manually?

Credit approvals, fraud calls, or compliance alerts: tell us the specific decision and we will assess which AI system reduces the manual load and what your data supports.

Algorithmic trading signal generation

We build AI systems that generate trading signals from market data, news sentiment, alternative data feeds, and technical indicators. These are signal generation systems -- the output is a ranked set of trade candidates with associated confidence levels, not execution logic. The trading decision and execution remain with your portfolio management team. We assess your data sources, target instruments, and signal horizon in discovery before scoping the model architecture.

AI for FinTech by area

Frequently asked questions

A credit risk scoring model takes structured inputs about a loan applicant and outputs a probability of default. The inputs can include traditional bureau data -- credit score, payment history, utilisation, derogatory marks -- combined with alternative data you have access to: bank transaction history, income verification documents, employment records, and behavioural signals from your application flow. The model is trained on your historical loan data: applications that were approved, repaid, and defaulted. It learns which combinations of applicant features correlate with repayment behaviour in your specific lending segment and product. Output is a numeric score and the contributing factors, so your underwriting team can understand why a score is high or low. For markets where bureau data is thin, we build models that weight alternative data signals more heavily. We assess what data you have in discovery and tell you what accuracy improvement is realistic before we start building.

Real-time fraud detection for payment processing is a classification model that evaluates each transaction against a set of features and outputs a fraud probability score in milliseconds. Features include transaction amount, merchant category, location, device fingerprint, time of day, velocity signals (how many transactions in the last 10 minutes), and behavioural patterns derived from the cardholder's historical activity. The model scores each transaction as it arrives. Transactions above a threshold trigger a hold or decline. Transactions in a middle band may trigger a step-up authentication request. The model is trained on your historical transaction data labelled with fraud outcomes. It learns the specific fraud patterns on your platform rather than applying generic rules. Because fraud patterns evolve, the model is retrained on a schedule as new labelled fraud data accumulates. We also build the feedback loop: disputes and confirmed fraud cases feed back into training data to keep the model current.

Loan origination document extraction takes unstructured documents -- bank statements, pay stubs, tax returns, ID documents, and utility bills -- and extracts structured data fields from them automatically. The AI reads the document, identifies the relevant fields (account holder name, monthly income, account balance, employer name, employment dates), and outputs structured data into your loan origination system. For bank statements, the model also classifies individual transactions by category -- salary credits, rent payments, loan repayments, gambling transactions -- which gives underwriters additional signal beyond the headline numbers. The model handles a range of document formats and layouts, including scanned paper documents and photos taken on a mobile phone. It flags documents where confidence is low for manual review rather than silently producing incorrect extractions. We assess your document types and origination workflow in discovery to determine the integration point and accuracy requirements.

Standard AML transaction monitoring uses rules: alert when a cash deposit exceeds a threshold, alert when transactions occur in high-risk jurisdictions, alert when structuring patterns appear. Rules catch known patterns but generate large volumes of false positives because they cannot account for customer context. A business that regularly transacts in multiple jurisdictions looks suspicious to a rules engine but is normal behaviour for that customer. AML anomaly detection uses unsupervised and supervised ML models that learn each customer's normal transaction behaviour and flag deviations from that baseline. A transaction that is unusual for this specific customer surfaces, even if it doesn't trigger a rule. Combined with network analysis that maps transaction flows between accounts, the model can surface layering and structuring patterns that are invisible to rule-based systems. Output is a prioritised alert queue with the contributing signals, so your compliance team spends time on the most likely cases rather than reviewing hundreds of low-quality rule alerts.