Winjit launches AuthSense for risk-adaptive digital-payment authentication

Winjit Technologies has introduced AuthSense, a behavioural-intelligence platform designed to help financial institutions and payment providers apply risk-adaptive authentication in line with RBI digital-payment directions.

— Source publishedSat, 12 Sept, 2026, 12:25 IST·First seen Sat, 12 Sept, 2026, 12:32 IST·Source Mint · Companies

What happened

Winjit Technologies launched AuthSense at Global Fintech Fest 2026, offering behavioural-intelligence-led, risk-adaptive authentication for Indian financial

Key facts

  • 2026
  • 2025
  • two authentication factors
  • more than 80 countries
  • 2020
  • 2023

Why this matters

Winjit’s entry creates a potential partnership or acquisition target category for banks, PSPs and commerce platforms seeking RBI-aligned adaptive-authentication capabilities.

What to watch

  • RBI clarification, supervisory action or audit expectations around risk-based authentication and alternative authentication factors.
  • Production deployments or customer wins involving large Indian banks, UPI participants, card issuers or payment gateways.
  • Measured reductions in OTP challenges, payment abandonment, fraud losses and manual-review rates.
  • Growth in account-takeover, mule-account or synthetic-identity fraud despite lower card-not-present fraud.
  • Data-privacy scrutiny around behavioural biometrics, consent, data retention and cross-border processing.
  • Payment gateways package risk-based authentication APIs and merchant dashboards alongside fraud-management tools.
  • Banks test behavioural intelligence against OTP failure, checkout abandonment, fraud-loss and false-positive rates.
  • Merchants segment checkout flows by transaction value, device trust, returning-customer status and payment method.
  • Identity, device-fingerprinting and cybersecurity vendors pursue partnerships with Indian PSPs, acquirers and core-banking integrators.