Machine Learning Models
Technical Terms
Banking
Compliance Terms
Oscilar History

100

Risk score: likelihood of a fraudulent account

Account Takeover

100

Lightweight API; designed to function off events and automate data pushes

Webhooks

100

a way for traditional banks to compete against emerging Fintechs by exposing their core data via APIs so that they can be used by other non-banking systems

BaaS: Banking as a Service

100

establish customer identity; understand the nature of customers’ activities and qualify that the source of funds is legitimate; assess money laundering risks associated with customers.

KYC: Know Your Customer

100

Where the first ever Oscilar QBR was held

Boston

200

Pre-defined and custom organization of transactions for customer offers and management

Transaction Categorization

200

User is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of evidence

MFA: Multifactor Authentication

200

Aimed at preventing criminals from using financial institutions to hide or launder money

BSA: Bank Secrecy Act

200

a document filed to track suspicious activities and to inform regulatory bodies about them by related institutions

SAR: Suspicious Activty Report

200

After Neha & Sachin, the first Oscilar employee

Karthik

300

Risk score: likelihood of transaction to result in this

Chargeback Fraud

300

third-party company that allows businesses to accept electronic payments, acting as intermediaries between those who make payments and those who accept them.

PSPs: Payment Service Providers

300

created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system, governing body in charge of oversite on sponsor banks

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

300

an approach where an organization constantly monitors its IT systems and networks to detect security threats, performance issues, or non-compliance problems in an automated manner

Continuous Activity Monitoring

300

First ever Oscilar customer

Ask Steve

400

Quickly approve and decline decisions on monytey movement, complete with explanation 

ACH 

400

most common fraud vector, the act of tricking someone into behaving as a bad actor.

Social Engineering

400

Payment or lending services that are provided directly to consumers by companies that are not financial services firms; used to help consumers complete checkout experiences or access credit quickly

Embedded Finance

400

The address of Osciar HQ

111 Washington Ave

500

Classifies transactions & improves financial management/analysis to understand account balances

Spend Power Prediction

500

Program using a massive amount of text data to train a neural network. This neural network is then used to generate text, translate text, or perform other tasks.

LLMs: Large Lanugage Model

500

organization to safeguard the financial system from illicit use, combat money laundering and its related crimes including terrorism, and promote national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial

FinCEN

500

permits financial institutions, upon providing notice to the United States Department of the Treasury, to share information in order to identify and report to the federal government activities that may involve money laundering or terrorist activity.

314 (b)