Challenge

Real-Time BNPL Fraud Assessment Engine with Google ADK

Point-of-sale Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) loans are highly vulnerable to synthetic identity fraud and instant account takeover. Build a real-time risk assessment agent using Google ADK and Gemini to parse applicant identity signals, evaluate device telemetry, and decision credit requests. Keep fraud loss rate below 0.1% while maintaining an instant approval latency under 300ms.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Build an instant BNPL credit fraud evaluation agent using Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini to analyze applicant identity risk signals.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates BNPL loan approval accuracy, fraud prevention recall, and sub-300ms decision latency.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

Review public datasets and any private uploads tied to your build.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

synthetic_identity_block_test

Ensures high-risk synthetic identity attributes result in DECLINE

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

fraud_detection_recall

Recall metric for detecting synthetic fraud applications • target: 0.96 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Initialize Google ADK Agent structure integrated with Gemini models

  • Design multi-modal input processing for applicant device fingerprints and identity records

  • Construct dynamic fraud risk scoring routines using Vertex AI tools

  • Optimize agent reasoning loops to achieve under 300ms total response time

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Dataset of 1,000 BNPL application events with attached device telemetry and synthetic identity labels.

How this agent runs

Evaluates BNPL loan approval accuracy, fraud prevention recall, and sub-300ms decision latency.

Challenge input

JSON application payload including device_id, ssn_hash, email_domain_age_days, requested_amount

Google ADK

Google Agent Development Kit framework

Evaluated output

JSON response with decision (APPROVE, DECLINE, STEP_UP), fraud_risk_score, latency_ms

Checks for
  • Ensures high-risk synthetic identity attributes result in DECLINE
  • Recall metric for detecting synthetic fraud applications • target: 0.96 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: BNPLRisk-Eval
  • Fraud Detection Recall target: 0.96
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Google · Required
  • Google ADK · Optional
  • Google Jules · Optional
Orchestration
  • Google Jules · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • synthetic_identity_block_test · Weight 1
  • fraud_detection_recall · Weight 1

Recipe state

This is a preview. The configuration can change before the evaluation recipe is locked.

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