This section provides an extensive breakdown of the findings within The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management Solutions In Asia Pacific, Q4 2025, with a continued focus on the positioning of Tencent Cloud Antifraud.
I. Market Dynamics Driving the APAC EFM Landscape
Account-to-account payment methods like Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are expanding rapidly, while stablecoins are increasingly usedfor cross-border remittances in markets like the Philippines. Financial institutions seek vendors with strong productized rule engines and models that can monitor these emerging transaction types effectively. Meanwhile, AI-enabled fraud such as deepfakes, identity fraud, and social engineering is surging across Asia Pacific (APAC), causing significant losses. In response, financial institutions are turning to advanced AI solutions, including generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI, to automate fraud management workflows like analyst investigations and develop better risk models.
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II. Tencent Cloud maintains a distinguished position in the Asia-Pacific anti-fraud market and is honored to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™.
1. Leading Technology
Federated Learning Innovator: Enables customers to co-develop machine learning risk models while protecting data privacy.
Compliant Data Sharing: Focuses on Explainable AI for regulatory compliance and develops privacy-preserving technologies to facilitate better data sharing among financial institutions.
2. Intelligent Platform, Enabling Precise Risk Control
Automated Modeling: Provides intuitive visual drag-and-drop model building, along with AI-driven automated modeling and tuning, making it portable and easy to use.
Multi-Scenario Applicability: Integrates multi-dimensional verification capabilities including credit risk, identity verification, and behavioral biometrics to help businesses better combat digital channel fraud such as account takeover and identity theft.
3. Out-of-the-Box, User-Friendly, Making It the Customer's First Choice "Out-of-the-box rules and ML models built on massive data deliver results that surpass peers." — Actual customer feedback