Working together to stop financial crime

Sonar is an independent data consortium for sharing real-time insights into First-Party Fraud and Counterparty Risk.

Criminals steal and launder money across a wide range of financial services

Their transactions can appear legitimate because bank-led consortiums don’t share data with fintechs and merchants.

Sonar can see their entire financial footprint

By monitoring transactions across banks, merchants, fintechs, and crypto, you’re always a step ahead in detecting financial crime.

Participating members across a wide range of financial services

Real-time risk signals for any entity conducting a financial transaction

Protect against First Party Fraud at account opening, funding, and payment initiation. Support for multiple rails including, credit/debit, ACH, RTP, FedNow, A2A, and P2P apps (Zelle, Cash App, and Venmo).

Data shared under appropriate legal frameworks

All data is anonymized and shared under USA PATRIOT Act Section 314(b), GLBA, and FCRA.

Get rewards for contributed data

Members receive 25% revenue share for risk decisioning feedback.

Solve the hardest fraud challenges with smarter data

First-party Fraud

Identify linkages between identities, devices, and behavior patterns pointing to repeat offenders, sleeper fraud cells, and organized criminal rings.

Authorized Push Payment (APP) Fraud

Protect your customers from the growing threat of social engineering scams, resulting in financial loss and damage to the reputation and trust of your service.

Money Mules

Flag accounts or individuals exhibiting suspicious activities, such as transfers to cryptocurrency wallets, or sudden changes in transaction routes, volumes, or time of day.

Return & Refund Fraud

Identify abnormal return volumes, link accounts to fraudulent devices, and recognize organized patterns across the customer lifecycle before further abuse occurs.

Jason Henrichs

CEO, Alloy Labs

Sonar is an essential utility for community and regional banks, offering a way to share risk insights within appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks. Sonar enhances their existing risk management processes without changing their current risk technology and data infrastructure.
02/03
01/03
D.J. Seeterlin

Chief Innovation Strategy Officer, Chesapeake Bank

By working together, we can improve fraud detection and recovery so that we can continue to innovate in the payments arena. We’re proud to be a founding member of the consortium and believe this effort will help to curb fraud and keep money where it belongs.
03/03
01/03
Ravi Loganathan

President, Sonar

Sonar closes the critical visibility gap between big banks and fintech, and helps us catch the fraudsters that previously slipped through the cracks. We're now more equipped to tackle the risks associated with faster payments and authorized push payment fraud.
01/03
01/03

Risk Solutions

Augment your risk decisioning with curated signals tailored to specific fraud, compliance, and credit use cases.

First-party Fraud

Detect friendly fraud, ACH fraud, APP fraud, and mule accounts.

Includes risk scores, reputation levels, device and behavior intelligence.

Leverage during account opening, funding, and checkout.

Available under GLBA.
AML Compliance

Prevent money laundering and terrorist financing activities.

Flags if entity has suspicious transaction activity or if other members have flagged them as high-risk.

Stop funds from being laundered through a chain of banks or fintechs via ACH debits.

Available under Section 314(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Credit Risk
Coming Soon

Screen applicants with thin or no file on record using alternative signals.

Includes Demand Deposit Account (DDA), card, and digital wallet transaction data.

Sonar will become a furnisher of credit risk data in 2024.

Available under FCRA.
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Connect with a growing network of world-class data providers

Capture more fraud with real-time user behavior biometrics

Distinguish between genuine transactions and those where a user’s account has been taken over or compromised.

Automatically route calls to leading data providers

If the entity is not present in Sonar, members can automatically route their query to dozens of our world-class data partners.

Why Join Sonar

Boost your fraud signals

Get risk scores, reputation levels, blocklists, device fingerprints, and behavioral biometric signals.

Follow the money trail

Improve AML compliance across transactions, accounts, and platforms to uncover the movement of illicit funds.

No integration required

Minimal data transmission. Just send us an email, phone, or transaction details to receive a counterparty risk score.

Tap into network effects

Constantly improving risk models based on consortium member reports and transactional feedback.

How to access Sonar

01  Send request
Send identifiable information via an API to match an existing entity UID.
02  Receive response
Enrich existing risk models with entity data in real-time to verify the entity with little impact to UX.
03  Send feedback
Send results feedback after each query to add to the entity’s UID.
01  Send request
Send identifiable information via an API to match an existing entity UID.
02  Receive response
Enrich existing risk models with entity data in real-time to verify the entity with little impact to UX.
03  Send feedback
Send results feedback after each query to add to the entity’s UID.