# GrabPay Wins Best Fraud Prevention Innovation at the Florin Awards

[Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab) · Foo Wui Ngiap · Oct 12, 2016

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Grab won the Best Fraud Prevention Innovation (Community Votes) Award at the 2016 Florin Awards for its GrabPay platform. To support secure cashless transactions across Southeast Asia, Grab deployed a dedicated risk and fraud detection engine when launching GrabPay earlier in the year. The system utilizes machine learning algorithms that continually evolve by analyzing driver, passenger, and travel pattern data across massive transaction volumes. Furthermore, Grab provides full financial protection by covering any unauthorized fraudulent transactions for both passengers and drivers. At the time of the announcement, the platform supported up to 1.5 million daily bookings and exceeded 23 million app downloads.

## Context

Securing high-volume cashless transactions and safeguarding user trust across a rapidly expanding regional user base.

## Approach / What changed

Deploying an evolving machine learning fraud detection system that models driver, passenger, and travel patterns while covering all unauthorized fraudulent transactions.

## Takeaways

- GrabPay won the Best Fraud Prevention Innovation (Community Votes) Award at the 2016 Florin Awards.
- GrabPay's fraud detection engine uses machine learning algorithms that learn from passenger, driver, and travel pattern data.
- Grab covers any unauthorized fraudulent transactions incurred by drivers and passengers on the GrabPay platform.

**Tags:** [Machine Learning](https://yomu.fyi/topic/machine-learning)

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