
S1E6 - Mastercard's 160 Billion Transactions: AI's Biggest Test
Published: February 4, 2026
Duration: 55:52
While most of the world is still running GenAI pilots, Mastercard is running AI inference on 160 billion transactions a year—with a hard latency limit of 50 milliseconds per score.
In this episode of Beyond the Pilot, Johan Gerber (EVP of Security Solutions) and Chris Merz (SVP of Data Science) open the hood on one of the world's largest production AI systems: Decision Intelligence Pro. They reveal how they moved beyond legacy rules engines to build Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) that act as "inverse recommenders"—predicting legitimate behavior faster than the blink of an eye.
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