How does Revolut use AI across its payment ecosystem?
Revolut builds most of its payment AI in-house and uses it on both sides of a payment: as the customer's card issuer and account provider, and as a merchant acquirer. A machine-learning card-scam feature, launched on 15 February 2024, declines likely scam payments mid-transaction; Revolut reported a 30% fall in losses from card scams tied to investment opportunities since testing began. Its 2025 annual report says its systems analysed over 10 billion transactions in 2025, that AI agents were deployed across real-time monitoring and account protection, and that advanced AI models raised the number of financial-crime cases reviewed daily by almost 10x. Revolut's FY25 fraud report says it cut its fraud rate by 31% in 2025. On 25 August 2026 Revolut Research disclosed PRAGMA, a transaction foundation model built with NVIDIA; early deployments on historical data caught 65% more fraud cases with 17% greater alert precision. On the checkout side, Revolut Pay became one of the first EU payment methods compatible with Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in January 2026, and in September 2026 Revolut and Visa completed France's first passkey-authenticated agentic card payment. Revolut does not publish agentic payment volumes or PRAGMA results from live production.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · Revolut profile updated Oct 19, 2026 · 16 sources cited on this page · 52 fintechs profiled on this site · Markdown
Where in the payment flow does Revolut use AI?
One row per layer, with the latest dated figure Revolut has published for it. Results are Revolut's own measurements.
| Layer | Product or system | What the record shows | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card payment scam detection | AI scam feature (in-house, financial crime team) | Machine learning judges whether a card payment is likely part of a scam, declines it and routes the customer through an intervention flow; 30% reduction in losses from card scams where money was sent for investment opportunities since testing began | 15 February 2024[1] |
| Transaction monitoring at scale | Fraud detection system | Revolut systems analysed over 10 billion transactions in 2025; over one third of Revolut's global workforce works in financial crime prevention, per the annual report | 2025[2] |
| Real-time monitoring and account protection | AI agents | Deployed across key security processes; Revolut says they automated a significant share of routine activity and materially increased coverage of complex cases | Annual Report 2025[2] |
| Financial-crime case review | Advanced AI models; FinCrime machine learning and prompt models in due-diligence and screening queues | Cases reviewed daily up by almost 10x | Annual Report 2025[2] |
| Scam intervention before a transfer | Scam Buster | An AI-powered chatbot that uses conversational data to predict the likely scam type a customer is falling for and deliver targeted warnings | FY25 report[3] |
| Impersonation calls | In-app call identification | Detects when a customer opening the app is on a call and confirms whether it is Revolut; launched citing AI-generated deepfake voices. Revolut says its fraud-prevention systems saved customers more than £600 million in 2024 | 13 January 2026[7] |
| Fraud, credit and recommendations from one model | PRAGMA (Revolut Research, with NVIDIA) | Early deployments on historical data: 65% more fraud cases caught with 17% greater precision in alerts; 2.3x higher accuracy at identifying credit default risk | 25 August 2026[4][8] |
| Security model coverage | Security models beyond PRAGMA | Review nearly one billion transactions every month | 25 August 2026[4] |
| In-store identity | Revolut Pay with Smile | Facial recognition checkout that verifies the customer against the selfie ID check done at sign-up; piloted at Kiss the Hippo cafés in Bloomsbury, Chelsea and Soho from 24 to 26 September 2026 on the new Revolut Register | 24 September 2026[9] |
How far has Revolut taken AI agents into payments?
| Item | What happened | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Revolut Pay on AP2 | Revolut Pay became one of the first EU payment methods compatible with Google's Agent Payments Protocol; Revolut says it adapted AP2's flows for account-to-account payments | 19 January 2026[5] |
| First French agentic card payment | Visa's test agent, My Agent, bought from software reseller Cleverbridge on a French consumer Revolut card, authenticated with Visa Payment Passkey and run on Visa Intelligent Commerce | 9 September 2026[6] |
| AIR as a shopping agent | CEO Nik Storonsky said AIR will soon browse the open internet and sites such as Amazon to buy on a customer's behalf, with card credentials kept inside Revolut's systems; testing scheduled to begin in December in the UK, then Europe | 13 October 2026[10] |
| AIR assistant | In-app AI assistant launched to UK customers; Revolut says it applies a zero data-retention policy with third-party AI partners | 9 April 2026[11] |
Who does Revolut work with on payment AI?
| Partner | What | Date |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | PRAGMA developed in collaboration with NVIDIA; NVIDIA's case study covers its training | 25 August 2026[4][8] |
| Revolut Pay made compatible with AP2 through close collaboration with Google; Google Cloud EMEA president Tara Brady quoted at launch | 19 January 2026[5] | |
| Visa and Cleverbridge | Passkey-authenticated agentic card payment in France | 9 September 2026[6] |
| OpenAI | Distribution deal: ChatGPT Go free for up to 12 months on Revolut retail plans; not a payments integration | 30 July 2026[12] |
| Unnamed AI providers | The AI platform's LLM gateway offers access to leading AI providers alongside Revolut's proprietary fine-tuned models; Revolut also engages vendors to improve fraud detection, without naming them | Annual Report 2025[2] |
What has Revolut's payment AI delivered, and what does it not disclose?
Revolut's FY25 Consumer Security and Financial Crime Report says it reduced its fraud rate by 31% in 2025, and by around 60% compared with the start of 2024, crediting machine learning, behavioral analytics and features such as biometric protections, call detection and Street Mode.[3]
The 2025 annual report names deepfake technology used by criminals as a persistent and increasing challenge, and lists an AI-powered deepfake campaign among its emerging risks. It says Revolut is enhancing its own machine learning models and engaging vendors in response.[2]
Revolut frames the agentic work as a payments business: it says it aims to make Revolut Pay a core payment rail for conversational AI commerce in the UK and EEA.[5]
What is not disclosed: total fraud losses for 2025, PRAGMA results from live production (the published figures come from historical data), agentic transaction volumes, and the names of the AI providers behind its LLM gateway.[3][4][2]
What does the Revolut profile record on this topic?
The rows below are the entries of the Revolut AI strategy profile that bear on this page, as of Oct 19, 2026; the profile holds the full record of 13 dated moves, 7 use cases and 21 sources.
| Use case | What the record shows | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIR (AI by Revolut) | In-app AI assistant for spending insights, investment tracking, subscription and card management, and travel tasks, rolling out to UK customers since April 2026. | Rolling out | [11][13] |
| AI card-scam detection | In-house machine-learning feature that detects likely authorised push-payment/card scams mid-transaction, declines the payment and routes the customer through an intervention flow; a 30% reduction in card-scam fraud losses reported since testing. | In production | [1] |
| PRAGMA foundation model | Proprietary transaction foundation model built with NVIDIA, pre-trained on about 26 million user records across 111 countries (roughly 24–40 billion events, per NVIDIA), for real-time risk assessment, platform operations and product recommendations. | Rolling out | [4][8][14] |
| AI-assisted financial-crime review | Advanced AI models let Revolut's financial-crime team increase the number of cases reviewed daily by almost 10x, per the FY2025 annual report; the US CEO says the AI outperforms manual review on flagging suspicious transactions. | In production | [2][15] |
| AI agents in security operations | AI agents deployed across real-time monitoring and account-protection processes, automating a share of routine review and increasing coverage of complex cases, per the FY2025 annual report. | In production | [2] |
| Date | Move | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | Revolut Research launches with PRAGMA | Revolut announces a dedicated AI Research division inside its AI Department. Its foundation model, PRAGMA, is built with NVIDIA; NVIDIA's case study says it was pre-trained on about 26 million user records across 111 countries (roughly 24–40 billion events). Head of Revolut Research Anton Repushko and Head of AI Pavel Nesterov are named. | [4][8] |
| May 27, 2026 | AI financial-crime detection outperforms manual review, US CEO says | Revolut US CEO Cetin Duransoy says the bank's AI systems perform statistically significantly better than human reviewers at flagging suspicious transactions. | [15] |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Coverage of the build-vs-buy AI strategy | Trade press reports Revolut trained its own foundation model rather than licensing from OpenAI or Anthropic, citing 40 billion transactions and other events from 25 million users across 111 countries as training data, running on 200+ NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | [14] |
| Apr 9, 2026 | AIR launches in the UK | Revolut launches AIR (AI by Revolut), an in-app AI assistant for spending insight, investing, card controls and travel tasks, to UK customers; Julia Ponomareva, Partner and GM of CX and AI Products, calls it 'a co-pilot that elevates everyday life.' | [11] |
| Mar 24, 2026 | FY2025 annual report published | Revolut releases its Annual Report for the year to 31 December 2025 alongside a results announcement dated 24 March 2026. Revenue reaches £4.5 billion (+46%), profit before tax £1.7 billion (+57%); the report discloses that Revolut's Gen AI-powered support chatbot, Assistant, resolved over 75% of customer support interactions by year end, and that AI-driven financial-crime review capacity rose roughly tenfold. | [2][16] |
| Feb 15, 2024 | AI card-scam detection feature launches | Built in-house by Revolut's financial crime team, the feature uses machine learning to detect a likely scam mid-payment, decline it and route the customer through a scam-intervention flow; Revolut reports a 30% reduction in card-scam fraud losses since testing began. | [1] |
How does Revolut use AI to stop card scams?
Since 15 February 2024 an in-house machine-learning feature has judged whether a card payment is likely part of a scam, declined it if so and routed the customer through an intervention flow. Revolut reported a 30% fall in losses from card scams where money was sent for investment opportunities since testing began.
What is PRAGMA and what does it do for fraud?
PRAGMA is Revolut's proprietary transaction foundation model, built with NVIDIA and disclosed on 25 August 2026 with the launch of Revolut Research. Revolut says early deployments on historical data caught 65% more fraud cases with 17% greater alert precision and were 2.3x more accurate at identifying credit default risk than legacy baselines.
Can AI agents pay with Revolut?
Revolut Pay was made compatible with Google's Agent Payments Protocol in January 2026, and in September 2026 Visa's test agent completed France's first passkey-authenticated agentic card payment on a Revolut card. In October 2026 CEO Nik Storonsky said AIR would soon shop on customers' behalf, with UK testing due in December.
How much fraud has Revolut's technology prevented?
Revolut says its fraud-prevention systems saved customers more than £600 million in 2024 that would otherwise have been lost to scams, and that it cut its fraud rate by 31% in 2025. Both are Revolut's own figures; no independent measure is published.
Does Revolut use OpenAI or other outside AI models in payments?
Revolut says its core models, including PRAGMA, are built in-house. Its annual report says its AI platform's LLM gateway gives teams access to leading AI providers alongside its own fine-tuned models, without naming them. Its July 2026 OpenAI deal bundles ChatGPT Go into customer plans and is not a payments integration.
- Revolut launches AI feature to protect customers from card scams and break the scammers 'spell'
- Revolut Group Holdings Ltd, Annual Report 2025
- Consumer Security and Financial Crime Report FY25
- Revolut Announces Launch of Dedicated AI Research Division: Revolut Research
- Revolut to Enable Frictionless Checkout Across All Agentic Commerce Platforms for the UK and EEA
- Visa and Revolut carry out passkey-based agentic payment in France
- Revolut amps up fight against impersonation scams with new call identification feature
- Revolut's Transaction Foundation Model is 3-5x Faster on NVIDIA H100 GPUs
- Revolut shakes up the high street with first pilot of facial recognition payments and 0% processing fees
- Revolut Plans To Compete With Amex And JPMorgan Via Matching Benefits And Agentic AI
- Revolut enters new era of money intelligence with launch of AI assistant
- Revolut partners with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT Go to millions of customers
- Revolut Rolls Out AI Assistant for Daily Financial Tasks
- Revolut Skips OpenAI, Trains AI on 25 Million Customers
- Revolut's AI Outperforms Human Reviewers at Detecting Financial Crime
- Revolut reports record profit of $2.3bn for 2025 as revenue surges to $6bn
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