The velocity of modern payment systems has created an unforgiving paradox: the faster you process transactions, the faster fraud can scale. When you're handling thousands of payments per second across distributed infrastructure, traditional batch fraud detection becomes a liability. By the time you discover fraudulent activity in a daily review, attackers have already extracted value and moved on. For enterprises running high-throughput fintech platforms, especially those bui

Failed payments cost businesses and consumers over half a trillion dollars every year. This article breaks down the real causes, from backend overloads to false declines, and explains how internal and external system failures create massive losses, customer churn, and operational chaos.