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For merchant acquirers across Africa, fraud prevention has long focused on minimising chargebacks, reducing scheme exposure, and protecting merchants from losses. But there is another threat hiding inside many fraud strategies: false positives.

Compass Plus Technologies has been named in The Payments Power 50 for 2026, marking its second consecutive appearance in the annual guide celebrating the companies and individuals influencing the global payments industry.

Since 2006, Network International and Compass Plus Technologies have been working together to innovate and elevate digital commerce across Africa.

For banks and fintechs alike, the mandate is clear: protect customers, reduce financial crime, and meet growing regulatory expectations. But across the industry, that balance has quietly tipped too far toward prevention at any cost.

Used well, rewards can support stronger engagement, increase retention and add more value to credit portfolios. Here are five ways they can help.

New platform empowers banks, processors, and PSPs to outpace fraudsters with proactive, scalable, and adaptive protection.

As FIs race to offer the latest and most innovative credit models to market, the temptation is to keep adding new products. The real question they should be asking themselves is whether each product is strengthening the portfolio - or quietly weakening it.