Global fraud prevention and anti-money laundering technology company SEON has partnered with Philippine technology and systems integration firm Exist Software Labs to help address this challenge.
The partnership will bring SEON’s fraud prevention, identity verification, and compliance technology to businesses in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian markets.
Digital Payments Grow, and So Does the Fraud Threat
As digital payments continue to reshape the way people and businesses move money, companies are facing a growing challenge: keeping transactions fast and convenient while protecting customers from increasingly sophisticated fraud.
The agreement comes at a time when online banking, e-commerce, fintech services, and digital payments are becoming more widely used across the region.
While the shift creates new opportunities for businesses, it also gives fraudsters more ways to target customer accounts, payment transactions, and personal information.
Through the partnership, SEON and Exist aim to help organizations identify suspicious activity earlier, assess potential risks more effectively, and respond to financial crime threats while meeting growing compliance requirements.
What is Partnership About?
Under agreement, Exist Software Labs will offer SEON’s technology to its customers across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The partnership gives businesses access to a broader set of tools designed to address fraud prevention and financial crime risks throughout the customer and transaction journey.
SEON’s platform covers several areas, including fraud detection, risk scoring, identity verification, customer and payment screening, anti-money laundering checks, transaction monitoring, case management, and reporting.
By bringing these functions together, businesses can evaluate customer activity using multiple data signals instead of depending on separate systems for different risks.
SEON says its technology uses real-time data signals to help businesses understand whether a customer, account, or transaction may present a risk.
This can allow companies to identify unusual behavior more quickly and take action before suspicious activity develops into significant financial losses.
The partnership also gives Exist an opportunity to add specialized fraud prevention and compliance technology to its existing portfolio of software development, systems integration, and digital transformation services.
Why the Philippines Is an Important Market
The Philippines has become an increasingly important market as consumers and businesses move more of their financial activities online.
Digital banking, mobile payments, fintech platforms, online shopping, and other digital services are creating higher transaction volumes and increasing the need for effective security measures.
For banks, fintech companies, payment providers, online retailers, and other digital businesses, preventing fraud is no longer only about responding to individual incidents.
Organizations must also monitor customer activity, verify identities, assess transaction risks, and comply with financial crime regulations.
This environment creates demand for technology that can help businesses make faster decisions without adding unnecessary friction for legitimate customers.
SEON has been strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region as demand for fraud prevention, identity verification, and AML solutions increase. The company has expanded its regional team and invested in markets including Singapore and Jakarta.
Its partnership with Exist provides another route into Southeast Asia by combining SEON’s specialized technology with the local market knowledge and technical capabilities of an established technology provider.
Bringing Fraud Prevention and Technology Integration Together
One of the key benefits of the partnership is the combination of SEON’s fraud prevention technology with Exist’s engineering and integration expertise.
For businesses, adopting a new fraud prevention platform can be challenging when existing systems already handle customer accounts, payments, onboarding, compliance, and other operations. Integration with those systems can require significant technical work.
Exist’s experience in software development and systems integration can help organizations connect SEON’s capabilities with their existing technology infrastructure.
This means companies can potentially introduce fraud prevention and AML functions without having to build every capability internally or manage several disconnected systems.
Troy Nyi Nyi, SVP and GM, APAC at SEON, said the partnership is intended to give organizations a more unified approach to managing fraud and financial crime risks.
“Fraud and financial crime keep growing more sophisticated, but most organizations are still trying to manage that risk across tools that were never designed to work together,” said Troy Nyi Nyi, SVP and GM, APAC at SEON. “By combining Exist’s engineering and integration expertise with SEON’s real-time fraud prevention and AML technology, we’re helping organizations in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia bring those signals into a single view and act on them faster.”
The approach could help businesses gain clearer visibility into risk while allowing their teams to make decisions based on a wider range of information.
What the Partnership Means for Businesses
The partnership is expected to focus on industries where digital transactions, customer onboarding, and compliance requirements are growing. These include banking, financial services, fintech, payments, e-commerce, and iGaming.
For these businesses, fraud prevention needs to work alongside customer experience. Companies must be able to identify suspicious users and transactions while allowing legitimate customers to access services without unnecessary delays.
SEON’s platform is designed to provide businesses with real-time risk information, while Exist can support implementation and integration into existing systems.
Together, the companies aim to give organizations a more connected way to manage fraud and AML risks.
Jonas Lim, Vice President for Technology at Exist Software Labs, said the partnership would expand the capabilities Exist can provide to its clients.
“Through our partnership with SEON, we are expanding the capabilities we can bring to our clients by combining advanced fraud prevention and AML technology with Exist’s expertise in software development, systems integration and digital transformation,” said Jonas Lim, Vice President for Technology at Exist Software Labs. “Together, we aim to help organizations gain better visibility into risk and take more informed action.”
For SEON, the agreement strengthens its access to businesses across Southeast Asia. For Exist, it adds a specialized fraud prevention and compliance solution to its digital transformation services.
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