Datos Insights, one of the financial services industry's most respected research and advisory firms, has named Pipl a Silver Medalist in its 2026 Impact Awards in Fraud & AML, specifically in the Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation category.
The recognition matters because of what it measures. Datos Insights evaluates solutions on competitive differentiation, real-world risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and tangible business impact. They’re the same things your fraud and risk teams weigh every day when deciding what belongs in their stack.
Why transaction fraud monitoring and decisioning
The category itself tells a story about where the industry is headed. Financial institutions are under pressure from two directions at once: fraud tactics are growing more sophisticated and more automated, while customers expect faster, more seamless approvals. The old trade-off to tighten controls and lose good customers, or loosen them and absorb more fraud is becoming untenable.
That tension is exactly where Pipl operates. Rather than forcing you to choose between security and approval rates, Pipl helps your existing risk systems make better-informed decisions at the point of transaction. We give your existing fraud stack the identity context it needs to distinguish a legitimate customer from a bad actor in real time.
Behind every decision is Elephant, Pipl's large risk model. Elephant evaluates 1,000+ signals per transaction against an identity graph spanning 5B+ identities across 150+ countries, updated 2B+ times daily. It produces a Trust Score and provides the reasoning behind that score.
What Datos Insights looked for
The Fraud & AML Impact Awards program evaluates innovations that have been in production and developed within the past 2 years. A panel of fraud and AML industry experts assessed each submission across 5 dimensions:
- Level of innovation and competitive differentiation
- How well the solution addresses real market needs
- Strength of financial risk mitigation (identification, prevention, and detection)
- Tangible business impact, including customer experience, operational efficiency, and scalability
- Product roadmap and long-term sustainability
Pipl earned the Silver Medalist designation in a competitive field alongside organizations building some of the most advanced fraud and financial crime tools in the market today. The 2026 awards recognized innovators across 14 categories spanning fraud prevention, AML, and financial crime convergence.
What this means for your risk decisions
Industry recognition is useful context, but the more relevant question is always: what does this mean for the decisions your team makes every day?
Pipl's approach to transaction fraud monitoring is built on a simple premise. The more your risk system knows about the identity behind a transaction, the better it can separate good customers from bad actors. That means fewer false declines blocking legitimate revenue, fewer manual reviews slowing down your operations, and stronger fraud detection without adding friction to the customer experience.
Built on 20+ years of global payment and identity data, Pipl's infrastructure is designed to plug into your existing systems. Whether you are looking to improve approval rates, reduce fraud losses, or cut the cost of manual review, the same identity intelligence drives all 3 outcomes.
See the full awards
You can view the complete list of 2026 Fraud & AML Impact Award winners and silver medalists on the Datos Insights awards page. A special congratulations to Casap for winning the category, and to Oscilar for being a co-silver medalist.
If you want to see how Pipl's identity intelligence can strengthen your transaction decisioning, get in touch. We will walk you through the data, calibrated to your environment because the best proof point is always the one measured against your own traffic.