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title: "FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K states Falcon Fraud Manager was used in approximately 65% of all credit card transactions worldwide"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
audit_status: "capture-verified — read directly from the annualreports.com-hosted copy of Fair Isaac Corporation's FY2008 Form 10-K during the 2026-08-02 capture session (sha256 recorded below). The SEC's own edgar.sec.gov copy of the same accession (0000950137-08-014107) returned HTTP 403 to every fetch tool tried and could not be independently mirrored this session; the annualreports.com PDF's own cover page identifies it as the filed Form 10-K, so it is treated as byte-identical filed content. The queen's independent re-check is blocked by that access gap, not by doubt about the content. | AUDIT 2026-08-08 (opus-5, cross-model): re-fetched via extract_pdf (tls verified, sha256 matching, 103pp) and read in situ. `source_quote` confirmed verbatim at printed p. 6, closing the \"Fraud Strategy Machine Solutions\" description of Falcon, which begins on p. 5 and breaks mid-sentence across the page. Cover page confirms Commission File Number 0-16439 and the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. Two corrections applied. (1) 'byte-identical filed content' was an overstatement and is withdrawn: the hosted PDF is the annual-report wrapper, which prepends a CEO letter (signed Mark Greene) that is not part of the filing, then reproduces the Form 10-K complete from cover page through signatures. The 10-K text within it is what was read; the document as a whole is not the EDGAR accession. (2) `source_venue` said the filing was 'signed by CEO Mark Greene'; the signature block at printed p. 96 shows the report signed on the registrant's behalf by Charles M. Osborne, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with Dr. Mark N. Greene signing separately as Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Director, all dated November 26, 2008 — the filing date, as distinct from the fiscal-year-end date carried in `source_date`."
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source_title: "Fair Isaac Corporation 2008 Annual Report"
source_author: "Fair Isaac Corporation"
source_date: "2008-09-30T00:00:00.000Z"
source_venue: "Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission File No. 0-16439); signature block at printed p. 96, dated November 26, 2008, signed on the registrant's behalf by CFO Charles M. Osborne and separately by Dr. Mark N. Greene as Chief Executive Officer; quoted passage at printed p. 6"
source_quote: "Falcon Fraud Manager protects hundreds of millions of credit and debit card accounts and is used in approximately 65% of all credit card transactions worldwide."
source_tier: 1
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-02-do-ficos-neural-network-models-actually-score-a.md, 2026-08-02"
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derived_from: "10-inbox/raw/2026-08-02-do-ficos-neural-network-models-actually-score-a.md"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
date_created: "2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["fico","falcon","fraud-detection","sec-filing","sourcing","verification","hnc"]
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Fair Isaac Corporation's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30,
2008 states, in the "Fraud Strategy Machine Solutions" section of Item 1
(Business), that Falcon Fraud Manager — the direct commercial descendant of
[[claim-hnc-falcon-fraud-manager-became-fico-infrastructure|HNC Software's 1992 Falcon system]]
— "protects hundreds of millions of credit and debit card accounts and is
used in approximately 65% of all credit card transactions worldwide." 65% is
a majority with room to spare, and the filing is Fair Isaac's own
SEC-certified regulatory disclosure — a Tier 1 primary source.

This is the earliest Tier 1 confirmation located of the substance behind the
vault's previously Tier-3-only headline reach statistic, but it is not
verbatim the same claim as the one carried in
[[claim-hnc-falcon-fraud-manager-became-fico-infrastructure]] ("a majority of
both the credit and debit card transactions in the world"), which combines
both card types into a single number. This 2008 filing states 65% for
*credit* card transactions specifically; debit card accounts are mentioned
in the same sentence but are not given their own percentage. The two claims
point at the same underlying scale but are not interchangeable — this note
confirms the order of magnitude and clears the sourcing floor for a
"majority" claim, without verbatim-verifying the combined credit-plus-debit
framing.

A conflation hazard sits one page earlier in the same filing. Describing a
different product — the TRIAD adaptive control system, not Falcon — the same
Item 1 states that Fair Isaac's adaptive control systems "are used by more
than 250 issuers worldwide to manage approximately 65% of the world's credit
card *accounts*" (p. 5). Two distinct 65% figures therefore appear within a
page of each other, attached to different products and different
denominators: Falcon at 65% of credit card *transactions* (p. 6), TRIAD at
65% of credit card *accounts* (p. 5). Any later "roughly two-thirds" claim about FICO's reach has two
possible ancestors in this document, and the sources that repeat the figure do
not distinguish them — see
[[claim-fico-two-thirds-figure-denominator-drifts-across-restatements]].

This substantially resolves [[question-verify-fico-neural-majority-card-transactions]]
now that a Tier 1 primary exists. The denominator inconsistency across
FICO's own restatements over time is tracked separately in
[[claim-fico-two-thirds-figure-denominator-drifts-across-restatements]], and
the sourcing pattern behind the figure as a whole — self-reported,
uncorroborated — in
[[claim-fico-transaction-share-figure-is-self-reported-no-independent-audit]].