PRAGMA: Revolut Foundation Model
About
Modern financial systems generate vast quantities of transactional and event-level data that encode rich economic signals. This paper presents PRAGMA, a family of foundation models for multi-source banking event sequences. Our approach pre-trains a Transformer-based architecture with masked modelling on a large-scale, heterogeneous banking event corpus using a self-supervised objective tailored to the discrete, variable-length nature of financial records. The resulting model supports a wide range of downstream tasks such as credit scoring, fraud detection, and lifetime value prediction: strong performance can be achieved by training a simple linear model on top of the extracted embeddings and can be further improved with lightweight fine-tuning. Through extensive evaluation on downstream tasks, we demonstrate that PRAGMA achieves superior performance across multiple domains directly from raw event sequences, providing a general-purpose representation layer for financial applications.
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| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-money laundering | Anti-money laundering | F0.5 Score47.1 | 1 | |
| Communication engagement | Internal Communication Engagement (test) | PR-AUC79.4 | 1 | |
| Credit Scoring | Internal Credit Scoring (test) | PR-AUC130.2 | 1 | |
| External fraud detection | Internal External Fraud (test) | Precision16.7 | 1 | |
| Lifetime value | Internal Lifetime Value (LTV) (test) | PR-AUC0.018 | 1 | |
| Product Recommendation | Internal Product Recommendation (test) | mAP40.5 | 1 | |
| Recurrent transactions | Internal Recurrent Transactions (test) | F1 Score5.8 | 1 | |
| Uplift Modeling | Internal Communication Engagement | AUUC163.7 | 1 |