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AMMAN — Visa (NYSE: V) launched recently the Visa Threat Intelligence Platform (VTIP), a new solution that helps financial institutions detect and respond to cyber threats that can lead to fraud and financial loss, leveraging the same cyber security capabilities Visa uses to protect its own global network.
Fraud is widely recognised as a downstream outcome of earlier cyber incidents, often beginning with data compromise, credential theft, or system exploitation well before a transaction is initiated.
Cyber attacks that expose payment credentials can originate anywhere across the payments ecosystem, from merchants and issuers to acquirers, processors and service providers.
In some cases, compromised credentials are trafficked and later misused, which can result in financial loss and operational disruption.
Senior Vice President, Head of Head of Value-Added Services, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) Visa, Walter Lironi said "Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, more targeted, and more difficult for organisations to detect early. Too often, fraud is the result".
He added "The Visa Threat Intelligence Platform helps financial institutions see those threats sooner by bringing together cyber and payments intelligence in one place, giving them clearer, and more actionable insight to reduce risk before it turns into fraud."
Visa’s global cyber defence capabilities
Visa blocks around 90 million cyber attacks and 11 million phishing emails each month across more than 200 countries, guided by a mission of zero breach and zero disruption.
Developed by Visa’s defence operations team and production tested internally across Visa’s global payments network, VTIP brings the same intelligence used to defend the world’s largest payment platform to clients.
By serving as its first customer, Visa validated VTIP against real-world attacks before extending these proven capabilities to help the broader ecosystem stay ahead of emerging threats.
Purpose-built intelligence for financial institutions
VTIP is designed specifically for the financial sector, helping security; fraud and risk teams cut through fragmented data and focus on intelligence that is directly tied to payments risk.
The platform combines cyber and financial intelligence to help organisations connect cyber security events with potential fraud outcomes.
VTIP capabilities include; "threat Intelligence" provides malware based indicators of compromise tailored to the financial sector, "vulnerability Intelligence" highlights exploits and exposures relevant to each organisation and "brand Intelligence" helps detect and mitigate impersonation and brand abuse,
In addition to "Digital Identity Intelligence" monitors and protects executives and employees from targeting them personally, "Financial Intelligence surfaces" compromised payment credentials from the dark web and enriches them with VisaNet insights, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence for fraud and risk teams.
By unifying cyber and fraud intelligence, VTIP helps financial institutions better anticipate upstream threats, prioritise response, and reduce the likelihood that cyber incidents escalate into fraud losses.
Strengthening trust across payments eco-system
Visa has long played a leading role in securing digital payments, investing over $13 billion in technology over the past five years, including reducing fraud and increasing network security.
Gartner Consulting gave Visa its highest rating 4.9 among peer companies for the overall maturity of its cyber security programme.
As cyber risks continue to evolve, financial institutions across the industry face a growing need for threat intelligence that is purpose-built for payments.
By extending proven internal cyber security capabilities to clients with VTIP, Visa continues to help financial institutions address cyber threats earlier, reduce downstream fraud and strengthen trust across the eco-system.
Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.
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