Published by Wanda Rich
Posted on April 11, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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San Francisco, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel - 10 April, 2025
San Francisco, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel - 10 April, 2025 — Ballerine, a Mastercard-certified Merchant Monitoring Service Provider (MMSP) and leader in AI-driven merchant risk intelligence, has joined the Mastercard Engage Partner Program to help financial institutions, fintechs, and acquirers automate merchant onboarding, monitoring, and compliance at scale.
Through this partnership, Mastercard clients gain access to Ballerine’s unified risk infrastructure, enabling faster launches, automated decisioning, and reduced compliance exposure across markets. Acquirers and payment providers can now streamline Know Your Business (KYB), fraud detection, and ongoing risk monitoring using a single platform that integrates KYC/KYB data, web presence analysis, and transactional behaviour.
“Acquirers today are under pressure to scale quickly while keeping up with growing compliance demands,” said Noam Izhaki, Co-Founder and CEO of Ballerine. “By joining the Mastercard Engage Partner Program, we’re making it easy for Mastercard’s global partners to tap into a proven AI solution that cuts onboarding time, reduces fraud, and helps platforms stay ahead of card scheme expectations.”
Ballerine’s platform has helped financial institutions reduce merchant onboarding time by up to 70%, proactively flag transaction laundering risks, and eliminate the need for fragmented tools. Its modular infrastructure supports global KYB/KYC policies, multi-jurisdiction compliance, and end-to-end automation, making it easier for companies to serve SMBs safely and profitably.
With customers across five continents and a growing open-source community, Ballerine is enabling a new generation of fintechs and platforms to build trust and scale without friction. As part of the program, Ballerine now offers pre-integrated onboarding and risk monitoring solutions for Mastercard’s global ecosystem of partners.
About Ballerine
Ballerine is a risk intelligence platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and platforms onboard, underwrite, and monitor merchants with speed and precision. By unifying KYB data, web signals, and transaction monitoring into one AI-powered layer, Ballerine enables smarter decisions, faster time-to-market, and continuous risk oversight. As a Mastercard-certified MMSP vendor, Ballerine helps clients meet card scheme requirements, reduce fraud losses, and scale safely. To learn more, visit: https://www.ballerine.com/
Know Your Business (KYB) refers to the process of verifying the identity and legitimacy of a business entity to prevent fraud and ensure compliance with regulations.
Merchant onboarding is the process of integrating a new merchant into a payment processing system, which includes verifying their identity and assessing their risk profile.
Fraud detection is the process of identifying and preventing fraudulent activities, typically through the use of advanced algorithms and monitoring systems.
Compliance in finance refers to adhering to laws, regulations, and guidelines set by governing bodies to ensure ethical and legal business practices.
Risk monitoring involves continuously assessing and managing potential risks that could affect a business's operations or financial stability.
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