Continuous merchant monitoring is the ongoing surveillance of merchant activity, risk indicators and compliance status after initial onboarding approval.

Continuous re-screening is the practice of repeatedly checking customers, vendors and business partners against compliance databases on an ongoing basis rather than only at initial onboarding.

Illegal gambling detection refers to the systems, processes, and technologies that payment processors, financial institutions, and regulators use to identify unauthorized gambling transactions flowing through legitimate payment networks.

Look-alike domain detection identifies fraudulent websites that mimic legitimate brand domains to deceive users into sharing credentials, payment information, or sensitive data.

MCC mismatch detection identifies when a merchant processes transactions under a Merchant Category Code that does not match their actual business activity.

Merchant Category Code validation, or MCC validation, is the process of verifying that a business is correctly classified under the four digit code assigned by card networks to categorize merchant types.

Merchant limit management is the process payment processors use to set, monitor and adjust transaction thresholds for businesses accepting card payments.

Merchant monitoring is the ongoing process of observing and analyzing a merchant's transactions, behavior and risk profile after they have been approved to accept payments.

Merchant portfolio health monitoring is the ongoing process of tracking, analyzing and evaluating the performance, risk and compliance status of all merchants within a payment processor or acquirer portfolio.

Merchant risk scoring is the process of assigning numerical values to businesses based on their likelihood of causing financial losses through fraud, chargebacks or regulatory violations.

A periodic review agent is an AI system that automatically conducts scheduled assessments of data, compliance status, risk profiles or operational metrics at defined intervals.

Prohibited gambling merchant screening is the process payment processors and acquirers use to identify and block businesses that operate illegal or unlicensed gambling operations.

Reputational risk screening is the process of evaluating individuals, businesses and transactions for associations that could damage a company's public image or stakeholder trust.

Reserve and payout hold decisioning is the process payment processors use to determine when to withhold a portion of merchant funds as protection against future chargebacks, fraud losses or regulatory violations.

Social media screening is the practice of analyzing publicly available social media content to assess risk, verify identity or evaluate suitability during hiring, lending or customer onboarding.

Web scraping for risk signals is the automated extraction of publicly available data from websites to identify potential fraud, compliance violations or creditworthiness indicators.

Website content compliance review is the systematic process of auditing a companys web pages, disclosures, marketing claims and user facing materials to verify they meet regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Website legitimacy checks are verification processes that determine whether a web domain represents a genuine business or a fraudulent operation.