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Stripe Radar vs. Custom ML Fraud Models: Which Wins?

Stripe Radar's false-positive problem in emerging markets isn't a model sophistication issue — it's a training data representation issue. Here's how to decide between Radar, a third-party ML layer, and a custom model trained on your own transaction graph.

Apr 30, 2026 9 min read
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Questions to Ask Before Hiring an AI Credit Scoring Vendor

Most credit scoring demos look great on the vendor's data and quietly fail on yours. Here are the adversarial questions to ask before signing — with what good and bad answers actually sound like.

Apr 29, 2026 9 min read