iGenuity™

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The Platform

iGenuity is our next generation platform for Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management, combining the best in fraud management and revenue assurance capabilities to eliminate fraud and revenue leakage from customer networks.

The platform is designed for flexibility and speed of implementation, to maximise the return on investment (ROI). Built to ‘scale as you grow’ iGenuity enables customers to independently select FM and RA modules which best suit their needs.

As well as incorporating the latest in analytics, Machine Learning and AI techniques, iGenuity is supported by our expert team of specialists. Even more convenient, the platform is modular, making it easy to install, configure and maintain. IGenuity can be deployed on-site, in the Cloud, or as a Managed Service.

iGenuity Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management Solutions for the Telecom Industry

How It Works

Our CEO, Rob Durran, explains why fraud management and revenue assurance solutions are critical to ensuring best in class network operations.

Fraud Management

For Fraud Management, the system is designed to simplify and automate the fraud detection process. iGenuity enables Fraud Analysts to easily and quickly access real-time information on how end customers are using services on their network, or on roaming partner networks. Any suspicious or potentially fraudulent activity can be instantly identified and brought under control so that financial losses are averted.

Fraud Challenges and Solutions

PBX Hacking

The Challenge

Hackers target PBX networks in ways that can impact the company. Using the PBX, they might place high cost calls, leaving the company to pay the bills. Hackers might steal data or simply render the network unusable.

Revenue Share Fraud

The Challenge

Fraud Managers recognise the complexity of this fraud type, and know they are ill-equipped to tackle it effectively. Why? Because traditional fraud systems are “rules-based”, and alarms are only generated after the attack has occurred. At Xintec we offer a unique advantage over other fraud detection techniques in that iGenuity actually generates alerts either before or during the early stages of a fraud attack. This is a very key differentiator, as we can now “move the dial” from reactive to predictive fraud detection, saving telcos up to 98% of potential financial losses in a single IRSF case.

Roaming Fraud

The Challenge

Roaming fraud is a special case where the victim’s cell phone or stolen SIM cards are used to make highly expensive calls. The key to preventing this is for the telecom operator to detect the fraud very quickly and block the outgoing calls from taking place. However, fraud detection time often takes longer than the exchange of data.

SIM box Detection

The Challenge

Fraudsters bypass the mobile network interconnection to direct incoming calls to on-network calls made by a range of SIM cards. This means that on-network calls are generated instead of interconnecting to mobile terminating calls. The revenue lost is the difference between the interconnect termination price and the retail price of mobile on-network calls.

Internet of Things

The Challenge

The rapidly growing IoT market is allowing CSP’s to secure steady cash flow with minimal added network infrastructure costs. But this expansion has exposed the telecommunication service providers to new fraud threats. Embedded SIMs if left unattended for long periods, are susceptible to possible tampering. The large number of terminals makes them prone to DoS attacks, or being used to launch such attacks.

Subscription Fraud

The Challenge

With the proliferation of services, content as well as new devices available to the consumer, consumers are also demanding quicker application responses, and different application mediums, whilst CSP’s need to offer superior capability to differentiate in a very competitive marketplace.

Spamming Fraud

The Challenge

Malicious spam text messages (also known as phishing texts or “smishing” – SMS phishing) are tools criminals use to trick users into giving them personal or financial information. As well as often being for the purposes of distributing malware, spam can slow down company networks and overwhelm the email servers of smaller businesses.

Mobile Money

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

Revenue Assurance

For Revenue Assurance, the solution provides a set of collection, reconciliation, and reporting features, accessible through a smart and intuitive GUI. The system works by analysing and reconciling event detail records (eDRs) from various network sources (GSM, GPRS, Prepaid, Roaming, Interconnect, Billing, Mediation, etc.) to identify, monitor and correlate the root causes of revenue leakage.

The software is typically deployed in predefined stages, as a range of easy-to-install modules requiring only light-touch integration. The system provides the following capabilities.

Revenue Assurance Challenges and Solutions

Usage Assurance

The Challenge

RA managers have a responsibility to ensure that their subscribers are billed for all the services they consume; and in turn the operator has a responsibility to its subscribers to assure they are only billed for the services they consume.

Platform Assurance

The Challenge

The services a subscriber is eligible to use does not always match with services provisioned for that subscriber in the network. These discrepancies can lead to poor customer experience and lost revenue.

Partner Assurance

The Challenge

Interconnect partners exchange invoices for the cost of terminating on or routing calls through their network. Payments for these invoices should only be made if they can be verified to be broadly correct. And if they appear to be incorrectly, it is necessary to enact a dispute process to identify the source of the discrepancies.

Balance Movement

The Challenge

The opening and closing balance of a financial system must reconcile to assure revenue is reported correctly. This process is particularly challenging for Mobile-Money Financial Systems and Prepaid systems that process multi-millions of debits and credits per day. The challenge is further compounded in Prepaid systems with the multitude of dedicated accounts (aka wallets).

Rating Assurance

The Challenge

Retail Rating is complex, often allowing a single subscriber to enrol for multiple, overlapping offers and rate plans. Independent monitoring of the application of these offers and plans is considered crucial by many operators.

Financial Forecasting

The Challenge

Predicting the future is difficult, but essential in forecasting revenues and understanding traffic anomalies.

IFRS Reporting

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

Invoice Assurance

The Challenge

Validating third-party invoices (e.g. broadband) can be a time-consuming activity, especially when the relationship is relative new or when invoices haven’t been fully validated in the past. It is not unusual for there to be large discrepancies between the partners invoices and the services active for an operator’s subscribers.

Usage Assurance

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Partner Assurance

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Balance Movement

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Provisioning Integrity

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Rating Assurance

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Financial Forecasting

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IFRS Reporting

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Invoice Assurance

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Is Managed Service a solution for your business needs?

Our Managed Services offering provides monitoring and management of Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management (RAFM) systems combined with direct access to skilled domain experts; underpinned by a detailed Service Level Agreement.

As a Managed Services provider, Xintec is responsible for delivering, implementing and maintaining a top-level service for our customers, be it a mobile network operator, MVNO or fixed-line or other service provider.

Business Reporting on Demand to meet performance objectives

Resource reallocation to core business activity

Best-in-class technical solutions combined with professional expertise

Management overhead reduced to a minimum to run the service

Performance based Service Level Agreements to ensure accountability

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Partner Assurance

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

How do we solve this problem?

The iGenuity fraud management solution encompasses monitoring and investigation of subscribers, agents, bank accounts, merchants and geographic regions to identify potential money laundering, commission manipulation, account theft or technical frauds.

Main steps

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Usage Assurance

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

How do we solve this problem?

The iGenuity fraud management solution encompasses monitoring and investigation of subscribers, agents, bank accounts, merchants and geographic regions to identify potential money laundering, commission manipulation, account theft or technical frauds.

Main steps

Average Leakage
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Partner Assurance

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

How do we solve this problem?

The iGenuity fraud management solution encompasses monitoring and investigation of subscribers, agents, bank accounts, merchants and geographic regions to identify potential money laundering, commission manipulation, account theft or technical frauds.

Main steps

Average Leakage
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Usage Assurance

The Challenge

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting financial transactions using a mobile device as an alternative to using cash, cheques or credit cards. The mobile device is linked to a bank account, card account (credit, debit or prepaid) or stored value (e.g., prepaid wallets, online stored value, stored value cards) from which money is deposit or withdrawn. Mobile Money services are extremely attractive to fraudsters and those seeking vehicles for money laundering.

How do we solve this problem?

The iGenuity fraud management solution encompasses monitoring and investigation of subscribers, agents, bank accounts, merchants and geographic regions to identify potential money laundering, commission manipulation, account theft or technical frauds.

Main steps

Will iGenuity fit your business?

Usage Assurance

RA managers have a responsibility to ensure that their...

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Platform Assurance

The services a subscriber is eligible to use does not always...

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Partner Assurance

Interconnect partners exchange invoices for the cost of...

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Balance Movement

The opening and closing balance of a financial system...

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Rating Assurance

Retail Rating is complex, often allowing a single subscriber...

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Financial Forecasting

Predicting the future is difficult, but essential in forecasting...

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IFRS Reporting

Mobile Payments provides a mechanism for conducting...

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Invoice Assurance

Validating third-party invoices (e.g. broadband) can be...

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iGenuity Product

Revenue Assurance Challenges and Solutions