Ekata by Mastercard

Ekata, a former part of the Whitepages company, and now a Mastercard company since the April 2021 acquistion, offers identity verification, data validation, and data enrichment services based on the Ekata Identity Engine (EIE), a machine learning based system used to derive links from real-time transactions within the company's proprietary network and data licenses. The service includes address and phone number validation APIs, among other services.

Ekata offers

• Account Opening API - Ekata’s account opening solutions provides insights to help businesses separate potential bad actors from good customers during the application process.
• Transaction Risk API - Transaction Risk API provides payment operations teams insights into client-provided identity information to reduce friction and improve customer experience while keeping fraud at bay.
• Phone Intelligence API - With a single customer phone number, it returns detailed and authoritative phone data to identify fake account sign-ups, inform risk models, and segment and analyze databases.
• Pro Insight - An identity review solution that enables agents to assess identity risk, approve good transactions, and investigate fraud on a global scale.
• Address Risk API - For any address in the world, provides rich metadata and risk signals around any given address and helps predict whether a customer is engaging in fraudulent activity.