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<b>NEURAL NETWORKS FOR REAL-TIME FINANCIAL FRAUD DETECTION</b>

The accelerating digitalization of financial services has transformed fraud into a systemic global threat, with annual losses estimated at $485.6 billion in 2023 alone — losses that conventional rule-based and statistical detection methods have proven structurally incapable of containing. This article presents a narrative literature review examining how neural network architectures are redefining real-time fraud detection in financial systems. The review covers the theoretical and epistemological foundations of…

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Current reading — gain

Hybrid and ensemble neural network frameworks that combine temporal, relational, and anomaly-detection capabilities consistently achieve superior real-time fraud detection performance in credit card networks and instant payment systems.

Current reading — problem

Neural network fraud detection systems in production face concept drift, adversarial evasion attacks, class imbalance, GDPR and LGPD explainability requirements, and sub-100-millisecond latency budgets that constrain deployment.

What this doesn’t fix

No single neural architecture dominates across all fraud typologies, indicating performance varies by fraud type and hybrid approaches are required.

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0339, v1: “<b>NEURAL NETWORKS FOR REAL-TIME FINANCIAL FRAUD DETECTION</b>.” Truvace, 2026-07-20. /record/TRV-2026-0339 (accessed at citation time). sha256 23a1f2620898295f

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