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Company Database - Kount

Protecting Your Digital Innovation
Kount’s award-winning AI-driven digital fraud prevention solution is used by 6,500 brands globally, helping them to reach their digital innovation goals. Kount’s patented technology combines supervised and unsupervised machine learning, a flexible policy engine, self-service analytics, and a web-based case-management and investigation system.

Business model
SaaS

Target market
Ecommerce, financial institutions, payment services providers, online communities, web merchants, apparel, automotive, quick serve restaurants, loyalty, digital streaming, electronics, food/beverage, health/beauty, home/kitchen, gaming/gambling, telecom, travel/ leisure, other online and card-not-present businesses

Contact
www.kount.com | info@kount.com 

Geographical presence
Global

Active since
2007

Service provider type
– Digital identity service provider
– Technology vendor
– Web fraud detection company 

Member of industry association and or initiatives
Merchant Risk Council, National Retail Federation, CPE Credit Certification by NASBA, Internet Merchants Retail Group, Global Retail Insights Network


SERVICES
Unique selling points 
Kount’s award winning, AI-driven digital fraud prevention solution emulates an experienced fraud analyst and protects against criminal fraud in a highly accurate and scalable manner by combining unsupervised and supervised machine learning with a universal data network built over 12+ years and billions of transactions.

Core services 
Payments fraud prevention (criminal and friendly fraud), new account fraud prevention and account takeover protection

Pricing Model
Tiered SaaS-based pricing model 

Fraud prevention partners
www.kount.com/partners; including Chase, Braintree, BlueSnap, and Moneris

Other services
Criminal and friendly fraud prevention, managed services, CB guarantee, advanced analytics, DataMart, VMPI, training and support

Third party connection
Several third-party API connections


TECHNOLOGY: anti-fraud detection tools available
Address verifications services 
Yes 

CNP transactions
Yes 

Card Verification Value (CVV)
No

Bin lookup
Yes 

Geo-location Checks
Yes 

Device Fingerprint
Yes 

Chargeback Reduction
Yes 

Payer Authentication
No

Velocity Rules – Purchase Limit Rules
Yes 

White list/black list database:
Yes 

KYC – Know Your Customer
Yes 

Behavioural analysis
Yes 

Credit Rating
No

3D Secure 2.0 - authentication
No

Machine learning
Yes 

Data analytics
Yes 

Follow up action
Yes 

Other
N/A


AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY USED
Password/phrase
Authentication is the verification of credentials such as username and password, or physical biometric methods associated with an account. Kount is not an identity access manager, rather we provide the risk assessment to enable decisions which can be integrated with an authentication platform as needed.

One-time password
No

Token
No

Digital certificates
No

Multi-factor authentication
No

Biometrics
No

Card 
No

PIN
No

AUTHENTICATION CONTEXT
Online
Yes 

Mobile
Yes 

ATM
No

POS
No

Call centre
Yes 

Other
In-store kiosk, mail order, omnichannel

REFERENCE DATA CONNECTIVITY
Connectivity to governmental data
No

Other databases
Ekata (formerly WhitePages Pro), Ethoca, Neustar, Chargebacks911


FRAUD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TYPE
Single-channel fraud prevention system
Yes 

Multi-channel fraud prevention system
Yes 

CERTIFICATION
Type
PCI Compliance Level 1 Service Provider and Participating Organization, SOC 2 Type II, Privacy Shield, GDPR

Regulation
Information available upon request.

Other quality programs
Information available upon request.

Other remarks
Kount has certified under the Swiss-US and EU-US privacy shield frameworks; is a PCI Level 1 merchant, and complies with GDPR.

CLIENTS
Main clients / references
CD Baby, Dunkin’ Brands, Engage People, Fetch Rewards, GNC, Hydrobuilder, Jagex, JOANN Fabric & Crafts, Leatherman, Micro Center, PetSmart, Staples, Young Living, The Vitamin Shoppe, WebJet, and more

Future developments
Kount is continuously delivering net new functionality month after month; contact info@kount.com for more information.