Loading...
News Image

DPIP: RBI's AI tool to detect fraud in real time

October 13, 2025

The Reserve Bank of India is launching a Digital Payments Intelligence Platform (DPIP) that will use AI to detect and prevent payment frauds in real time. Initially, a negative registry will flag suspicious entities, with the platform expanding to analyze transactions and assign risk scores for preventive measures.


Synopsis
The Reserve Bank of India is launching a Digital Payments Intelligence Platform (DPIP) that will use AI to detect and prevent payment frauds in real time. Initially, a negative registry will flag suspicious entities, with the platform expanding to analyze transactions and assign risk scores for preventive measures.
Mumbai: The central bank's upcoming Digital Payments Intelligence Platform (DPIP) would harness AI to detect and prevent payment frauds in real time, officials aware of the initiative told ET.
In its first phase, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has built a negative registry that integrates data from telecom operators and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) to flag suspicious or fraudulent entities, said officials.
"The RBI has developed this AI-driven platform through its innovation hub, which is now being implemented across several banks," said an official in the know. "In the pilot stage, banks are sharing data through this platform, which is becoming increasingly effective in identifying fraud-related patterns and is being replicated across other banks." At the beginning of this year, the RBI onboarded five banks onto the digital intelligence platform, which is now being scaled up to include more than a dozen lenders.
In the next phase to be rolled out soon, the AI-driven platform will analyse transactions and assign instant risk scores, enabling banks to take preventive measures such as enhanced due diligence, additional verification, or temporary debit freezes when potential fraud is detected.
In the second phase, which will be launched shortly, banks will begin sharing fraud-related data with the platform in real time.
Live Events
"This is going to be a much bigger platform where the AI-based models would start alerting banks that a transaction could be a potential fraud, prompting them to carry out enhanced due diligence or take actions such as a debit freeze," said another banking official aware of the matter.
During the monetary policy announcement on October 1, the RBI said it is preparing to operationalise the DPIP, which will leverage AI to flag risky transactions and curb digital fraud.
"We are now implementing the Digital Payments Intelligence Platform; the actual prototype is being developed by our innovation hub," RBI Deputy Governor T. Rabi Sankar had said. "An entity is being set up to run this. The basic idea is to collect information from multiple sources-mule accounts, telecom, geographical location, and more-and train an AI system on this data."
Sankar explained that the system will generate pre-transaction alerts if it identifies a risk, allowing banks or customers to decide whether to proceed.
In FY25, banks reported 13,516 cases of card and internet frauds amounting to Rs 520 crore. Most of these occurred through digital channels such as cards and internet banking. While private sector banks accounted for the majority of digital frauds, public sector lenders reported most of the incidents linked to their loan books.
(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel)
(Catch all the Business News, Breaking News and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.)
Subscribe to The Economic Times Prime and read the ET ePaper online.
...moreless
(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel)
(Catch all the Business News, Breaking News and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.)
Subscribe to The Economic Times Prime and read the ET ePaper online.
...moreless
Indian sky wars: As Noida and Adani Airport loom, can GMR keep its altitude?
The rupee’s fall might just be its rise. Here’s why!
OpenAI-Oracle-Nvidia deals: Big AI moves or just balance-sheet games?
Trading the change: Why India’s brokers are shifting from access to advice
Stock Radar: Swiggy showing signs of bottoming out after falling nearly 30% from highs; time to buy?
Sound businesses are the best antidote for volatility: 6 large- and mid-cap stocks with an upside potential of up to 30%
1
2
3